publications

The publications page brings together all publications (documents, journal articles, presentations, working drafts), produced by or in collaboration with FAO, on the subject of ontologies.

2004

At Sun SITE Central Europe (CEUR), Proceedings of the EKAW*04 Workshop on Core Ontologies in Ontology Engineering - Northants. (UK), October 8, 2004.[: conference presentation]

September 2003

The Pruning ­ based Identification of Domain Ontologies : a novel approach for extracting a domain ontology from large-scale thesauri. Concepts are identified for relevance in a domain, based on their frequent occurrence in domain texts. [: journal article]

August 2003

The Automatic multi-label subject-indexing in a multilingual environment : paper presented at the 7th European Conference n Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital libraries, Tronheim, Norway. [: conference presentation]

June 2003

A core ontology for information integration, joint paper by Martin Doerr (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece ), Jane Hunter (DSTC Pty, Ltd., Brisbane, Australia ), and Carl Lagoze (Computing and Information Science, Cornell University, Ithaca NY ). Published by the Journal of Digital Information, this paper looks at the process used to harmonize two different knowledge management optics (cultural heritage and the digital library), into an integrated ontology. [: journal article]

May 2003

The Reengineering AGROVOC to ontologies : paper presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Houston, Texas, USA. [: conference presentation]

November 2002

The Fishery Ontology Project - Status report : report on the status of work for the Core Fishery Ontology, version 2, developed by the CNR (Centro Nazionale di Ricerche) Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italy, in collaboration with FAO. [: report]

October 2002

"A Comprehensive Framework for Building Multilingual Domain Ontologies: Creating a Prototype Biosecurity Ontology" : paper presenting work being carried out in FAO as part of the ongoing project "A Framework for Multilingual Domain Ontologies" [presented at the Dublin Core Conference - DC-2002: Metadata for e-Communities - held in Florence in October this year]. [: conference presentation]

October 2002

"A Comprehensive Framework for Building Multilingual Domain Ontologies: Creating an Ontology on Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health" : paper presented at the AFITA Conference - Semantic Standards for the Web, Beijing, China. [: conference presentation]

October 2002

"A Comprehensive Framework for Building Multilingual Domain Ontologies: Food Safety Ontology Prototype: paper presented at DC-2002 Metadata for e-Communities, Florence, Italy. [: conference presentation]

September 2002

Fishery Ontology Project - Status report : an early progress report for the FOS project. [: report]

April 2002

Technology Overview of Methodologies, Standards, and Tools for Ontology Construction: This document explains ontology in a simplified way and demonstrates how ontology could improve search. It also gives an overview of the methodologies, standards, and tools for ontology construction. [: overview]

January 2002

Integration of knowledge orgainsation systems in the Fishery domain: This document explains a conceptual approach to integrate thesauri and taxonomies in the Fishery domain. The document is intended to be used as a proof of concept for the AOS Project. [: concept paper]

December 2001

Concept paper for a Multilingual Forestry Thesaurus: The Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) will set a framework for agricultural knowledge organisation, including forestry. This document shows how a multilingual forestry thesaurus will be an important building block in the development of the AOS. [: concept paper]

December 2001

The Agricultural Ontology Server: a Tool for Facilitating Access to Knowledge Presented at XML 2001, Orlando, Florida. [: conference presentation]

October 2001

Agricultural Ontology Server: Workshop paper presented at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001, Tokyo, Japan[: conference paper]

July 2001

Creating the Semantic Web: the role of an agricultural ontology service presented at the International Semantic Web Workshop, Stanford University, California, USA. [: position paper]

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