Crop Ontology

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   CROP ONTOLOGY Online dictionary for crop-related concepts.

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   THE TEAM

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   www.cropontology.org

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   phenotype breeding germplasm traits CONCEPTS

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   BROWSE Collaborate through wiki-like approach. -­  and  -­ MODIFY

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   search visualize edit

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   WHY? Documenting on farm crop diversity so that we know

   what is being currently grown, how, by whom, for what purpose and how it is being threatened. “ ” On farm conservation www.bioversityinternational.org/research/conservation/on_farm_conservation.html
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   DISCOVERY goal of INFORMATION

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   CROP ONTOLOGY helps link and find unstructured information

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    Like TAGS for blog posts

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    Or the INDEX of an Encyclopedia

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    HOW? We build ontologies Ontologies are like dictionaries. But smarter

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    Ontologies help with inference Flipper is  a Dolphin Dolphins are

     Mammals Flipper is  a  also  a Mammal
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    They allow computers to understand how concepts are related to

    each other
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    They can help us better find what we want

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    search-engines use ontologies

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    GOOGLE CROP ONTOLOGY can  help  build  the for  crop  diversity

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    Constantly growing COMMUNITY DRIVEN

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    Scientists Database managers 3rd party tools General public WHO’S USING

    IT?
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    F uture   GOAL? Become the largest online database for

    crop-diversity
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    THANK YOU!