Designing a semantic web ontologs of agricultural domain
Sujan Chowdhury, Md. Mahedi Kaysar, Kaushik Deb · 2012
Agricultural knowledge is so distributed, heterogeneous and polymorphic that current web architecture may unable to find the desired search results. So ontology of semantic web architecture is used for better search results. Semantic web makes the data of the web machine understandable and ontology is the core step of semantic web technology. Ontology captures the domain knowledge in a generic way and provides a commonly agreed understanding of a domain. It helps the search engine to find out the meaningful and scientifically correct information. In this paper, an ontology (Fruit Ontology) is proposed of agricultural sub-domain which is designed with OWL Description Logic (DL) language. Agricultural ontology is used by many organizations for better agricultural information service (AIS) or for adapting reliable information and communication system in agriculture. This paper also describes the each steps of designing the “Fruit” ontology briefly. For designing ontology AGROVOC is used as the base vocabulary. AGROVOC is developed by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of United Nations which is used all over the world for indexing, retrieving and organizing data in agriculture information system.