Abstract
The French project Data to Knowledge in Agronomy and Biodiversity (D2KAB) will make available a semantically-enabled French agricultural alert newsletter. In order to describe/annotate crop phenological development stages in the newsletters, we need a specific semantic resource to semantically represent each stages. Several scales already exist to describe plant phenological development stages. BBCH, considered a reference, offers several sets of stages –one per crop called ‘individual scales’–and a general one. The French Wine and Vine Institute (IFV) has aligned several existing scales in order to identify the most useful grapevine development stages for agricultural practices. Unfortunately these scales are not available in a semantic form preventing their use in agricultural semantic applications. In this paper, we present our work of creating an ontological framework for semantic description of plant development stages and transforming specific scales into RDF vocabularies; we introduce the BBCH-based Plant Phenological Description Ontology and we illustrate this framework with four scales related to grapevine.
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http://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/CROPUSAGE_FR (fcu on the Figures).
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Cellfie (https://github.com/protegeproject/cellfie-plugin) allows to import spreadsheets content inside OWL ontologies in Protégé.
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Or, to be more generic, we need a mechanism to map a skos:Concept in AGROVOC to a owl:Class in our ontology.
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This work was achieved with support of the Data to Knowledge in Agronomy and Biodiversity (D2KAB – www.d2kab.org) project that received funding from the French National Research Agency (ANR-18-CE23-0017); as well as with help of French Wine and Vine Institute (www.vignevin.com). We also thanks Thibaut Scholasch (Fruition Sciences) for help translating the labels.
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Roussey, C., Delpuech, X., Amardeilh, F., Bernard, S., Jonquet, C. (2021). Semantic Description of Plant Phenological Development Stages, Starting with Grapevine. In: Garoufallou, E., Ovalle-Perandones, MA. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1355. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71903-6_25
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