The Onto-CropBase – A semantic web application for querying crops linked-data

Lawan, Abba; Rakib, Abdur; Alechina, Natasha; Karunaratne, Asha

Abstract

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. The lack of formal technical knowledge has been identified as one of the constraints to research and development on a group of crops collectively referred to as underutilized crops. Some information about these crops is available in informal sources on the web, for example on Wikipedia. However, this knowledge is not entirely authoritative, it may be incomplete and/or inconsistent and for these reasons it is not suitable as a basis of decision making by crop growers. Alternatively, we present an ontology-driven tool as a web-based access point for underutilized-crops ontology model. Major discussion points in this paper highlight our design choices, the tool implementation and a preliminary validation of the tool with brief discussion of related developments.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jun 16, 2017
• Journal: Communications in Computer and Information Science
• Print ISSN: 1865-0929
• Publisher: Springer Verlag (Germany)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 613
• Pages: 384-399
• Book Title: Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures. Advanced Technologies for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• ISBN: 9783319340982
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34099-9_30
• Keywords: semantic web, ontology, semantic search, knowledge base underutilized crops
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/912625
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34099-9_30
• Contract Date: Jun 16, 2017