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Towards a common ontology in agricultural domain : merging productive chain ontologies

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Author	Souza, Kleber Xavier Sampaio De
Abstract	This article will discuss the usage of the Information Agency as a space for exchange of knowledge among farmers, researchers and rural extension technicians. It will suggest how the information contained in knowledge trees can be improved to become true ontologies in the sense of the Semantic Web Initiative, and present common points identified in the knowledge trees already specified for different domains. The starting point is the Information Agency Project in execution by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation – Embrapa. Although that project has received positive feedback, it would benefit largely if its organization had considered thoroughly the concepts proposed in the Semantic Web initiative. Ontologies for agricultural domain are almost inexistent. Their achievement and the solution of merge related problems are crucial to the construction of more intelligent systems. In this particular case, the Agency will be able to interconnect elements in an ontology and infer that if brachiaria decumbens is a kind of foraging plant for beef cattle, and that foraging is an animal nutrition alternative, than brachiaria is one alternative for cattle. Background The success of the Web as an attractive environment can be credited mainly to the implementation of the idea launched for the first time by Vanevar Bush in 1945 (Rada, 1991), called hypertext. Working by associating objects instead of simply classifying them hierarchically, hypertext operates closely to the way we think. Naturally, Bush's hypertexts were not associated with today's nor to Internet for they did not exist at that time, but rather to set of texts from several people which were interconnected forming what he called macrotext. Ted Nelson mentioned the expression hypertext for the first time only in 1967.
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Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.cnptia.embrapa.br/~kleber/public/iskm2003.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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