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MTSR 2010: Metadata and Semantic Research pp 320–330Cite as

Enriching the Description of Learning Resources on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Agricultural Domain: An Ontological Approach

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The collection, compilation and dissemination of relevant information and knowledge about the risk of natural disasters is a critical element in the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 for disaster risk reduction. Knowledge, innovation and education are needed not only to build a culture of safety and resilience at all levels, but also to mainstream disaster risk reduction especially in weather and climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture. Describing learning resources about these topics with semantic metadata enhances their availability and further facilitates the search and retrieval process by using richer annotations based on ontologies. This paper reports about ongoing work concerning the creation of a domain ontology based on AGROVOC as well as the UN/ISDR and related terminology on disaster risk reduction for the description of associated learning resources in the agricultural domain.

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  1. United Nations University (UNU-EHS), UN Campus, Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10, 53113, Bonn, Germany

    Thomas Zschocke

  2. United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Vienna International Centre, E-09 72, P.O. Box 500, 1400, Vienna, Austria

    Juan Carlos Villagrán de León

  3. World Agroforestry Centre, POBox 30677, 00100, Nairobi, Kenya

    Jan Beniest

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Zschocke, T., Villagrán de León, J.C., Beniest, J. (2010). Enriching the Description of Learning Resources on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Agricultural Domain: An Ontological Approach. In: Sánchez-Alonso, S., Athanasiadis, I.N. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16552-8_29

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