Crop Ontology

Presentation on http://www.cropontology.org/

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1. CROP ONTOLOGY Online dictionary for crop-related concepts.
2. THE TEAM
3. www.cropontology.org
4. phenotype breeding germplasm traits CONCEPTS
5. BROWSE Collaborate through wiki-like approach. -­  and  -­ MODIFY
6. search visualize edit
7. 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
8. DISCOVERY goal of INFORMATION
9. CROP ONTOLOGY helps link and find unstructured information
10. Like TAGS for blog posts
11. Or the INDEX of an Encyclopedia
12. HOW? We build ontologies Ontologies are like dictionaries. But smarter
13. Ontologies help with inference Flipper is  a Dolphin Dolphins are  Mammals Flipper is  a  also  a Mammal
14. They allow computers to understand how concepts are related to each other
15. They can help us better find what we want
16. search-engines use ontologies
17. GOOGLE CROP ONTOLOGY can  help  build  the for  crop  diversity
18. Constantly growing COMMUNITY DRIVEN
19. Scientists Database managers 3rd party tools General public WHO’S USING IT?
20. F uture   GOAL? Become the largest online database for crop-diversity
21. THANK YOU!