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The CIARD RING

The CIARD RING. “a R outemap to I nformation N odes and G ateways ( RING ) that share information related to agricultural research and innovation for development (ARD)”. A CIARD project led by GFAR. ARD information now.

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The CIARD RING

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. Availability is just not enough! Users have to locate and search several sources that provide partial answers to complex questions 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 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? Users

  4. 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

  5. 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 dryland area for a specific crop and if there are related projects currently ongoing and where we can find the project outputs? Users

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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...

  12. 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...)

  13. 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...

  14. 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

  15. 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.

  16. 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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