Agri-Profiles: Agricultural tacit knowledge discovery tool

http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net

Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la

Agricultura

AgriProfilesLinking agricultural

professionals in the Americas

From explicit to tacit knowledge…

• MANAGING INFORMATION: A large experience in the use of library catalogs, references and document management since 1942. The largest effort at this point is SIDALC Alliance at www.sidalc.net

• CONNECTING PEOPLE: The following “right step” was related to take advantage of all tacit knowledge and explore ways to link people (data) better. The recent effort is called AGRIPROFILES at http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net/

AgriProfiles and VIVO

Open source web semantic toolthat allows discovering andlinking of any professional profile

Managing professors,researchers, and otherspecialists including theirknowledge production, keyactivities and affiliations

A little bit of history: Developed by Cornell University (2003-2004),extended with other US universities under an NIH project (2009),and translated into Spanish by IICA with support from USDA (2013)

AgriProfiles will allow any researcher/professional

To map any colleague by research area, authorships and collaboration

To expose credentials: experience, knowledge and professional achievements

To link research areas and experiences bygeographical focus

To have a set of URI

Networks

International projectsInstitutions

Three scenarios for LAC

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In thecloud

People

Positions

Photo

Organizations

AcademicDegree

Semantyctypes

Relations

Ontologies

Modelcreation

Modelexports

RDF

RDF archives integrated in

VIVO

Curation of data

VIVO exposedLOD

Modelling data to VIVO with KARMA tool

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SAPIENS - IICA

URL Response format

Response MIME type

http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net/individual/n3713?format=jsonld JSON-LD application/json

http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net/individual/n3713?format=n3 N3 text/n3

http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net/individual/n3713?format=rdfxml RDF/XML application/rdf+xml

http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net/individual/n3713?format=ttl Turtle text/turtle

LOD EXPOSURE- QUERY

• Managing content via library catalogs or repositories• Managing people profiles via VIVO

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http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net