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21-Nov-06Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO as a knowledge organization Article 1 of FAO’s Constitution: “The Organization shall collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture” FAO experts knowledge network: agronomists, foresters, fisheries and livestock specialists, nutritionists, economists, statisticians and other professionals. FAO Internet knowledge in numbers: 4 million monthly visitors 3 million web pages, documents, hundreds of DBs and information systemsTRANSCRIPT
Requirements for a Knowledge Infrastructure at FAO
Case Study: FAO country profiles and mapping information system
21-Nov-06 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Presentation roadmap
FAO as a knowledge organization Case study: country profiles Lessons learned and opportunities
21-Nov-06 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO as a knowledge organization
Article 1 of FAO’s Constitution: “The Organization shall collect, analyse, interpret
and disseminate information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture”
FAO experts knowledge network: agronomists, foresters, fisheries and livestock
specialists, nutritionists, economists, statisticians and other professionals.
FAO Internet knowledge in numbers: 4 million monthly visitors 3 million web pages, 100 000 documents,
hundreds of DBs and information systems
21-Nov-06 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Case study: country profiles
2002: Problem:
national programmes could produce more effective results through a cross-sectoral, country-based approach
a large number of country-based information systems existed, but
information lacked integration: info generated/used in a circumscribed manner.
Approach: The FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information
System was launched and designed to access all major repositories and IS by country: www.fao.org/countryprofiles
21-Nov-06 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
21-Nov-06 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Case study
21-Nov-06 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Lessons learned
Information Management requirements: Adoption of agreed metadata standards
mapping of country classifications, names in all the 5 languages of the organization
Semantics: ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri and metadata schemas
development of a geopolitical ontology
21-Nov-06 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Case study: country profiles & reports
2003: Internet working prototype of an integration
structure based on Web Services: to allow interoperability of FAO systems and
information sources, and to support dynamic report generation in PDF.
2004: Intranet country briefs application:
A web application for internal and very controlled use that generates country briefs from pieces produced in various departments.
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21-Nov-06 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Lessons learned
Policy requirements: Trust
providers: citation and copyright consumers: quality ranking
Providers ROI increased visibility knowledge base exploited for providers’
own business shared computational and/or storage
resources
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Opportunities brought by technology
ICT requirements: Improve access to heterogeneous data
sources Integrate Web 2.0 tools: wikis, blogs,
folksonomies. Secure and controlled environment Resource discovery mechanisms
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Thank you for your attention
For more information: www.fao.org