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The Global ARD Web RING

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

Project PresentationThe Global ARD Web R.I.N.G.

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Why a Roadmap

The limited available agriculture-related information on the Internet is widely scattered and not organized for easy, efficient and effective access.

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Surveys

Data entry

Database

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Surveys

Data entry

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Why a Roadmap

Complex information needs for agricultural development through research and innovation cannot be met by simply making information available.

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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 id 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

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Value added services neededThere is a need for value added information services that enable to search, collate and integrate information from various sources to meet user needs, improve access to the information and enable its effective use

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 practices

Country profiles

AGRIS

Country NARS

ICARDA

AiDA

Crop database

OPACs

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Crop ontology

Organizations Directory

Node

Gateway

Agrovoc

Info service

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Need for cooperation and orientation The gigantic task of providing agricultural information

globally cannot be done by a few actors and cannot be done without being aware of what others have done and do

The Web RING wants to provide an orientating service for the existing initiatives in order to facilitate and speed up the process towards advanced integrated value-added services for the users  

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The Web RING service The Web RING will monitor existing services and initiatives

through a registry of: participating organizations adhering initiatives and projects compliant information services value-added services implemented within the framework

The Web RING will categorize and interlink the featured services according to criteria based on: standards used, vocabulary used, technology used, protocols used, level of interoperability etc. and will feature detailed instructions on how to interoperate the featured services

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The Web R.I.N.G. target user

The end-users of the this Roadmap are not the users looking for ARD information, but the users looking for existing services which they can leverage for building more advanced and value-added information services

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Example Web RING record : AgriFeeds

Name: AgriFeeds

Short description: AgriFeeds is the Agricultural News and Events Aggregator.The service harvests news and events from the registered source feeds and allows browsing and filtering of the aggregated news. Custom views of news / events can be displayed by using the filtering forms and users can subscribe to these views as feeds.

URL:http://www.agrifeeds.org

Creator (repeatable)- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Natins (FAO)- Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)

Maintainer (repeat.)Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Natins (FAO)

Contact email:agrifeeds@gmail.com

Date of creation01/10/2007

Instructions:...

Constraints: tested browsers: IE 6+, Mozilla...,

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Thematic coverage:agriculture

Geographic coverage:global

IO coverage (Information Objects):news, events

Standard compliance: INPUT metadata set(s): RSS, Ag-Event AP, RSS event module format / syntax / notation: XML controlled vocabulary(ies):

- FAO Technical Knowledge Classification Scheme- ISO Country Codes- FAO Country Names and Regions

protocol(s) / architecture(s): RSS Standard compliance: OUTPUT

metadata set(s) : SS, Ag-Event AP, RSS event module format / syntax / notation: XML controlled vocabularie(s)

- FAO Thematic Knowledge Classification- ISO Country Codes- FAO Country Names and Regions

protocol(s) / architecture(s) : RSS

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Examples of featured services The global Directories (organizations, projects etc.) now under

development in the context of the Content Management Taskforce (CMTF) of CIARD

Services that provide RSS feeds or even more specialized XML or RDF exports of information based on agreed metadata sets

Services that provide advanced web services to dynamically generate RSS feeds or XML or RDF exports of information

Services that share their documents participating in the new AGRIS or in the Open Archive Initiative, possibly using common or mapped vocabularies

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Examples of featured services (2) Services that offer a common browsing or searching interface

to different sources.

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

Integrated services linking entities (organizations, projects, experts, documents) through hyperlinks and relations

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

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Next steps A logo will be designed that can be used by all featured

services to label and indicate their inclusion in the Global ARD Web Ring.

The CIARD Content Management Task Force and the related communities working on standards and protocols will provide the guidelines and technical specifications for making services interoperable

The GFAR Secretariat will initially maintain the registry of services that are participating in the Global ARD Web Ring.

GFAR will organize workshops for advocacy and capacity building on how to effectively participate in the Web RING

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The goal of the Web RINGThe goal the Web RING expects to serve is

a network of high quality, integrated information services that meet the needs of the agricultural research and development community and which enables this community to share information, knowledge, skills and technology for agricultural development

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

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InvitationWe invite all actors managingagriculture-related information to

coordinate efforts and make their services known through the Web RING mechanism within CIARD

Thank You