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Project Presentation

The CIARD RING

“a Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING)that share information related to agricultural research and innovation for development (ARD)”

A CIARD project led by GFAR

Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring

ARD information now

Agriculture-related information on the Internet is limited, widely scattered and not organized for easy access

Complex information needs for agricultural research, innovation and development cannot be met


Availability is just not enough!

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Users

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We need to know if a certain technology has been used in a specific country and in a dryland area for a specific crop and if there are related projects completed or ongoing, who is funding them and where we can find the project outputs?

TECABest practices

Country profiles CARIS WISARD AGRIS

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Country NARS

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ICARDA

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AiDA

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Crop database

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OPACs

Users have to locate and search several sources that provide partial answers to complex questions


Solution: value added servicesValue added information services that enable to

search, collate and integrate information from various sources

acting as gateways to information sources

OPAC


Solution: value added services

CARIS / WISARD

Users

We need to know if a certain technology has been used in a specific country and in a dryland area for a specific crop and if there are related projects currently ongoing and where we can find the project outputs?

TECABest practicesCountry

profiles

AGRIS

Country NARS

ICARDA

AiDA

Crop database

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Crop ontology

Organizations Directory

Agrovocgateway gateway

gateway

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gateway OPAC


What is missing

Value added services cannot be built without awareness of what others have done:

• which sources are available

• how to tap into them

• how to exploit their semantics


The RING: supporting value added services

The CIARD RING provides the missing routemap to the existing services

an orientating service an infrastructure for interoperability

of agricultural research information services


The CIARD RING service

The CIARD RING is a registry of existing ARD information services

the featured services are categorized and interlinked according to criteria based on: standards used, vocabulary used, technology used, protocols used, level of interoperability etc.

detailed instructions on how to interoperate the featured services are provided


Submission flow The services featured in the RING are submitted

directly by their managers and technical staff

Anybody can register and submit a service; the organizations responsible for the service will be alerted upon submission

If they are not already CIARD partners, the organizations that own and manage the submitted services will be invited to become CIARD partners


Who can benefit from the RING? users looking for existing services into which

they can tap for retrieving information and feeding it into their information systems

users looking for existing services to which they can contribute their contents and through which they can disseminate their information.

users interested in an overview of the current offer of information services in ARD


Services in the RING: examples Services that provide RSS feeds

Services that provide XML exports of information based on agreed metadata sets

Services that share their documents participating in the new AGRIS or in the Open Archive Initiative

Services that offer web services for accessing and re-using their information

etc...


Services in the RING

The CIARD RING covers both information services and information sources

The definition of "service" includes any form of providing information from one server instance (website, mail server, web services, XML archive...) to many clients (browsers, email clients, news readers, harvesters...)


What you can build out of it Services that offer a common browsing or searching

interface to different sources

Integrated services providing relations between entities (organizations, projects, experts, documents) through semantic-web technologies

Services that interface the different knowledge organization systems (KOS) used by different sources

Services providing advanced services like digests, bibliographies, best practices, surveys etc.

etc...


Be part of the RING The CIARD RING service is available at:

www.ciardring.net

A logo will be designed that can be used by all featured services to label them and indicate their participation in the CIARD RING

Registration of services in the RINGwas opened up

in OCTOBER 2009


Global Public Goods

The CIARD RING and the featured information services will be free and publicly available, thus constituting Global Public Goods that can be leveraged by any organization, person or information service.


InvitationWe invite you all to

- make your services known through the CIARD RING- learn how to exploit other services in the CIARD RING

Thank You

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