The Ontologies Community of Practice: A CGIAR Initiative for Big Data in Agrifood Systems.
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SUBMITTER: Arnaud E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7660444 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
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The Ontologies Community of Practice: A CGIAR Initiative for Big Data in Agrifood Systems.
Arnaud Elizabeth E Laporte Marie-Angélique MA Kim Soonho S Aubert Céline C Leonelli Sabina S Miro Berta B Cooper Laurel L Jaiswal Pankaj P Kruseman Gideon G Shrestha Rosemary R Buttigieg Pier Luigi PL Mungall Christopher J CJ Pietragalla Julian J Agbona Afolabi A Muliro Jacqueline J Detras Jeffrey J Hualla Vilma V Rathore Abhishek A Das Roma Rani RR Dieng Ibnou I Bauchet Guillaume G Menda Naama N Pommier Cyril C Shaw Felix F Lyon David D Mwanzia Leroy L Juarez Henry H Bonaiuti Enrico E Chiputwa Brian B Obileye Olatunbosun O Auzoux Sandrine S Yeumo Esther Dzalé ED Mueller Lukas A LA Silverstein Kevin K Lafargue Alexandra A Antezana Erick E Devare Medha M King Brian B
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Heterogeneous and multidisciplinary data generated by research on sustainable global agriculture and agrifood systems requires quality data labeling or annotation in order to be interoperable. As recommended by the FAIR principles, data, labels, and metadata must use controlled vocabularies and ontologies that are popular in the knowledge domain and commonly used by the community. Despite the existence of robust ontologies in the Life Sciences, there is currently no comprehensive full set of ont ...[more]
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