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The CIARD RING for building integrated information systems

The CIARD RING for building integrated information systems. Ajit Maru GFAR Secretariat Rome. Outline. Increasingly Complex Information Needs for ARD Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models

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The CIARD RING for building integrated information systems

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  1. The CIARD RING for building integrated information systems Ajit Maru GFAR Secretariat Rome

  2. Outline • Increasingly Complex Information Needs for ARD • Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models • CIARD.RING and its role as a global support tool for building integrated information systems

  3. Increasingly Complex Information Needs for ARD • Agriculture is increasingly becoming more knowledge Intensive • Agriculture now with complex value addition chains in globally competitive markets • New Challenges • Ensuring Food Quality and Safety • More Efficient Use of Natural Resources • Reducing environmental degeneration and enabling recovery from environmental damage • Adapting to and mitigating effects of Climate Change • Managing Agricultural Biodiversity

  4. Pesticide Supply Seed Supplier Farmer Local Transporter Fertilizer Seller Consumer Farmers Storage Extension Support Research Manager Retail Marketing Market Retail Packaging Researcher Processing Bulk Transporter NARO Retail Processing Packaging Stakeholders Policy Makers Agricultural Innovation System and Possible New Information Flows

  5. Scientist/Researcher Extension Agent Farmer Scientist/Researcher Extension Agent Farmer Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models Complex Information Networks

  6. Individual Farmers Input Providers Researchers Market Intermediaries Consumers and Consumer Organizations Farmer Organizations Extension Agents Non-Government Organizations Government Non-Government Organizations Extension Agents Government Consumers and Consumer Organizations Farmer Organizations Market Intermediaries Researchers Individual Farmers Input Providers Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models PROSUMERS

  7. Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models MODERN ICTS HAVE BROUGHT: • MULTIPLE PLATFORMS • MULTIPLE CHANNELS FOR INFORMATION • COMPLEX, MULTIPLE FLOWS OF INFORMATION • MIXED MEDIA

  8. Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models MODERN ICTS HAVE BROUGHT: For Communication: • SMS • MMS • BLOGS • TWITS • FAQs, Q&A Services • SOCIAL MEDIA (FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, FLICKR) • PHOTOGRAPHS, AUDIO and VIDEO Beyond the printed word

  9. Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models GENERATE – MANAGE - USE (RE)GENERATE – ADD VALUE – (RE)USE

  10. Change in Information Management Models • Internet and World Wide Web • Web 1.0 – HTML and Hypertext • Web 2.0 – Interactive, Dynamic Web pages • Web 3.0 – “Semantic” Web • Web 4.0 – “Prosumer” Web through Mixed Media

  11. 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 Initiative led by GFAR

  12. 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

  13. Best practices Country profiles Country NARS Crop database ICARDA TECA CARIS AiDA OPACs WISARD AGRIS HTML HTML HTML HTML HTML HTML HTML HTML HTML HTML HTML We need to know if a certain technology has been used in a specific country and in a dry land 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? Users Availability is just not enough! Users have to locate and search several sources that provide partial answers to complex questions

  14. CIARD RING • What information is available and Where? • How can we access and make effective use?

  15. Solution: value added services Value added information services that enable to search, collate and integrate information from various sources acting as gateways to information sources OPAC

  16. Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models CIARD.RING Contributing through CIARD to add value to value addition being done by information systems services for their users (RE)GENERATE – ADD VALUE – (RE)USE

  17. Maize gateway gateway gateway Solution: value added services Best practices CARIS / WISARD TECA Organizations Directory AiDA Country profiles Geo-ontology Country NARS Agrovoc Crop ontology OA Crop database AGRIS ICARDA gateway OPAC We need to know if a certain technology has been used in a specific country and in a dry land area for a specific crop and if there are related projects currently ongoing and where we can find the project outputs? Users

  18. 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?

  19. The RING: supporting value added services The CIARD RINGprovides the missing route map to the existing services • an orientating service • an infrastructurefor interoperability of agricultural research information services

  20. 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...

  21. 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...)

  22. The THAI CIARD RING • Have used services accessed automatically from CIARD.RING to help extension workers and Citrus farmers plan their operations in Citrus production in Thai language through documents available through services exposed by CIARD.RING

  23. Outputs are available digitally

  24. OTHER NATIONAL CIARD RINGS • China – CAAS • India - ICAR

  25. The CIARD RING service The CIARD RING is a registry of existing ARD information services • the featured services arecategorized 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

  26. Development A Generic Framework of ICT use f or Agricultural Innovation Innovation Increase in Social Capital Learning in Communities Through Continuous Conversation Extension Workers Input Suppliers Market Intermediaries Self Help Group Leaders, Community Leaders School Teachers, Postmen, Students Telecenter Knowledge Intermediary Radio Channels TV Channels Satellite Links Internet Services Cellular Telephony Providers Information “Bus” / Pathways Radio Station Television Station Website SMS Server Telephone based Q&A Services Information Platform Research Institute, NGO, FO, Cooperative Private Sector Input Provider, Bank Supermarket chain Information Organization Information Platform Information Platform Information Platform Information Platform Information Platform Information Organization Information Organization Information Organization Information Organization Information Organization

  27. Development A Generic Framework of ICT use f or Agricultural Innovation Innovation Increase in Social Capital Learning in Communities Through Continuous Conversation Extension Workers Input Suppliers Market Intermediaries Self Help Group Leaders, Community Leaders School Teachers, Postmen, Students Telecenter Knowledge Intermediary Radio Channels TV Channels Satellite Links Internet Services Cellular Telephony Providers Information “Bus” / Pathways Radio Station Television Station Website SMS Server Telephone based Q&A Services Information Platform Research Institute, NGO, FO, Cooperative Private Sector Input Provider, Bank Supermarket chain Information Organization Information Platform Information Platform Information Platform Information Platform Information Platform CIARD MOVEMENT Information Organization Information Organization Information Organization Information Organization Information Organization

  28. 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.

  29. 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

  30. 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...

  31. 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

  32. Be part of the RING • The CIARD RING service is available at: www.ciardring.net A logo is available on the RING website that can be used by all featured services to label them and indicate their participation in the CIARD RING

  33. Invitation We 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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