AgroPortal: A vocabulary and ontology repository for agronomy
AgroPortal: A vocabulary and ontology repository for agronomy
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DOI：
10.1016/j.compag.2017.10.012
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
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8.3
通讯作者：
Larmande, Pierre
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作者：
Jonquet, Clement;Toulet, Anne;Larmande, Pierre
产生了许多词汇表和本体来表示和注释农艺数据。然而，这些本体是分散的，在不同的格式，不同的大小，不同的结构和重叠的领域。因此，需要有一个共同的平台来接收和托管它们，调整它们，并使它们能够在农业信息学应用中使用。通过重用国家生物医学本体中心（NCBO）BioPortal技术，我们设计了AgroPortal，农学领域的本体库。AgroPortal项目重新使用生物医学领域的语义工具和见解来服务于农学，但也服务于食品，植物和生物多样性科学。我们提供了一个门户网站，具有本体托管，搜索，版本控制，可视化，评论和推荐;启用语义注释;存储和利用本体对齐;并启用与语义Web的互操作。AgroPortal特别满足农学界在本体格式方面的要求（例如，SKOS词汇表和特征字典）和支持的特性（提供详细的元数据和高级注释功能）。在本文中，我们介绍了我们的平台的内容和功能，包括对原始技术的补充，以及参与项目设计和定位的五个驱动农艺用例的初步输出，以在社区中锚定它。通过建立在从生物医学领域获得的经验和现有技术的基础上，我们可以在AgroPortal中展示一个强大的，功能丰富的，对农艺学领域具有重要价值的知识库。
Many vocabularies and ontologies are produced to represent and annotate agronomic data. However, those ontologies are spread out, in different formats, of different size, with different structures and from overlapping domains. Therefore, there is need for a common platform to receive and host them, align them, and enabling their use in agro-informatics applications. By reusing the National Center for Biomedical Ontologies (NCBO) BioPortal technology, we have designed AgroPortal, an ontology repository for the agronomy domain. The AgroPortal project re-uses the biomedical domain's semantic tools and insights to serve agronomy, but also food, plant, and biodiversity sciences. We offer a portal that features ontology hosting, search, versioning, visualization, comment, and recommendation; enables semantic annotation; stores and exploits ontology alignments; and enables interoperation with the semantic web. The AgroPortal specifically satisfies requirements of the agronomy community in terms of ontology formats (e.g., SKOS vocabularies and trait dictionaries) and supported features (offering detailed metadata and advanced annotation capabilities). In this paper, we present our platform's content and features, including the additions to the original technology, as well as preliminary outputs of five driving agronomic use cases that participated in the design and orientation of the project to anchor it in the community. By building on the experience and existing technology acquired from the biomedical domain, we can present in AgroPortal a robust and feature-rich repository of great value for the agronomic domain.