Marta Iglesias Sucasas, Caterina Caracciolo, Claudio Baldassarre, Yves Jaques

This document revises and updates the user requirements for the Fisheries case study (WP7) originally prepared in D7.1.1 (in M7). As highlighted in the introduction (Chapter 1), the purpose of this deliverable, 22 months after the launch of the NeOn project, is to refine the user requirements for the WP7 case study. This refinement of the user requirements is also meant to enhance the alignment of the case study with the NeOn project and better contribute to it as a whole. The user requirements for the Fisheries ontologies lifecycle management system are presented in Chapter 2. This chapter also includes an updated description of user’s roles and requirements for ontology engineers and ontology editors. The requirements for the FSDAS are revisited in Chapter 3. That chapter covers the general characteristics of the FSDAS (i.e., its scope, perspective, features), the refinement and extension of the functional requirements, its foreseen user types, and a number of user interface issues and non-functional requirements. Conclusions are presented in Chapter 4. This deliverable also includes five annexes with additional detailed information. Annex A provides a summary of the requirements presented in Chapter 2, together with their mapping to the NeOn architecture. Annex B traces all changes to requirements, scenarios and uses cases from D7.1.1 until now. Annex C consists of tables that are meant to help the reader trace the changes (modifications/refinements) with respect to the requirements presented in D7.1.1 and D7.5.1. Finally, Annex D and Annex E list the revised use cases and the new use cases for FSDAS respectively.

Yves Jaques

This document contains the results achieved in documenting and detailing a set of fisheries information systems and resources for the purposes of ontology experimentation by NeOn partners, and for the use of the work package seven case study.

Anita Liang, Gauri Salokhe, Margherita Sini, Johannes Keizer

As with many domains, information retrieval and knowledge management (IR/KM) in ethics suffers from the problems of semantic heterogeneity, making it difficult for providers to disseminate their services effectively and for users to retrieve the information they need. An analysis was conducted of resources provided by two hundred or so information services within the domain of ethics as it applies to issues in science, technology, and research in a European context.

FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

AGRIS, the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology, was established by FAO over 30 years ago as an international initiative to build a common information system for science and technology in agriculture and related subjects based on a collaborative network of institutions. To date, 240 national, international and intergovernmental centres participate. Thailand was quick to become an active partner in the AGRIS network, with the Thai National AGRIS Centre celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2005. Capitalizing on new advancements made in communication technologies in the 1990s, a "new vision for AGRIS" was developed which allowed for decentralization, strengthened capacity building, emphasis on full text documents and use of web-enabled tools with a focus on the establishment of standards for effective exchange and retrieval of information. One of the first institutions to take up the new vision was the Thai National AGRIS Centre. This report describes the work and experiences of the Thai national AGRIS Centre in adopting the new AGRIS strategy, with the intention that it may serve as a useful reference for other organizations seeking to do the same.

Boris Lauser

This short case study shows, on the basis of a simple example taken from the Food Safety area, how ontologies differ from thesauri.

Anita Liang

Lexical conventions create consistent formats for enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of terminology-related activities. This document specifies conventions to be applied when doing terminology work and is applicable to vocabularies currently being maintained at FAO, that are used mainly (though not exclusively) by humans and that can be applied immediately.

Gauri Salokhe

This paper outlines the methodology we adopted for creating the XML based exchange format for the AGRIS System. At the same time, it tries to generalize into phases, the steps that were taken and provides information about the work that was undertaken to complete each phase.

Gauri Salokhe

This paper outlines the motivations for creating the Agricultural Metadata Elements Project. This project was set up to promote the use of metadata in description of all agricultural information resource types.

GILW, FAO

The role of the AOS in the idea of Semantic Web.