AgroPortal: an ontology repository for agronomy

Many vocabularies and ontologies are produced to represent and annotate agronomic data. Therefore, there is a need of a common platform to identify, host and use them in agro-informatics application. By reusing the NCBO BioPortal technology, we have designed AgroPortal an ontology repository for the agronomy domain. The AgroPortal project aims at reusing the scientific outcomes and experience of the biomedical domain in the context of plant, agronomy, food, and biodiversity. We offer an ontology portal which features ontology hosting, search, versioning, visualization, comment, recommendation, enables semantic annotation, as well as storing and exploiting ontology alignments. All of these within a fully semantic web compliant infrastructure. The AgroPortal specifically pays attention to respect the requirements of the agronomic community in terms of ontology formats (e.g., SKOS, trait dictionaries) or supported features. In this demonstration, we will present our platform currently open and accessible at http://agroportal.lirmm.fr