Johannes Keizer AGRIS Secretariat, FAO, Library and Documentation Systems Division

1. A new vision and strategy to enhance the AGRIS model for access to and exchange of information on agricultural science and technology Johannes Keizer AGRIS Secretariat, FAO, Library and Documentation Systems Division

2. Summary • Update on status • Frequent questions • Gaps and/or issues

3. AGRIS Network 1975 – 2005 Objective: to improve access and exchange of information on agricultural science and technology www.fao.org/agris

4. AGRIS Principles (1975) • International • Multilingual • Participatory – national & international “Input Centres” • Centralized open access bibliographic database, esp. grey literature – now > 3 million records • Support from FAO – coordination, tools, methods, data processing, training, technical support

5. New AGRIS Vision (2002) • decentralized approach • greater diversity of participating organizations • strengthened role in capacity building • focus on full text documents • greater availability of associated information about activities/organizations/people • set of web-enabled standards and tools Electronic Conference in 2003 - 15 Recommendations

6. Capacity Building: Individuals + www.imarkgroup.org IMARK development to support the AGRIS network Partnership-based e-learning initiative Oversight from the IMARK Steering Group

7. Management of Electronic Documents collection, archiving, management and dissemination of electronic documents and associated images. (English/French/Spanish) Digitization and Digital Libraries workflows, processes, technologies and skills involved in the creation, management and distribution of digital libraries. (FAO and UNESCO)

8. New Modules in 2006: Investing in Agricultural Information: Issues and Options (FAO, CTA and GTZ) Building Electronic Communities and Networks (FAO, CTA and IFPRI)

9. Challenges • Decentralization: establishment of national networks – institutions and policies • Capacity building: supporting decentralization • Standards and tools: common approaches • Partnership: at international level

10. Expert Consultation International Information Systems for Agricultural Sciences and Technology Oct 2005

11. Key Components of Systems

12. Future Priorities • Advocacy • Capacity building • Institutional networks • Individual awareness/skills • Content management • Open Access • Standards

13. Identity -AGRIS – the Relaunch • Key priority : National Networks/Systems • Building on all relevant experiences • Explicit co-ownership/branding • New Web Portal on neutral domain • Governance: • Steering Group • Three Task Forces

14. Advocacy Platform • Vision – strong clear messages • Champions – strategically-placed individuals • Case studies – evidence & lessons learned • Indicators – common approaches to M&E

15. National/Regional NARS Universities Regional Research Fora Regional Agricultural Organizations etc…. International Capacity building: Institutional Networks Effective Mechanisms for Partnership

16. You know, my group is very engaged in one of the 3 pillars of the new AGRIS initiative Managing and mobilizing the results of Agricultural research and Technology

17. Content Management- Basics • AGMES – Agricultural Metadata Element Set • AGRIS Application Profile • AGROVOC • AOS – Agricultural Ontology Service • Software – WebAgris, DSpace..... • Open Archives www.fao.org/aims

18. Content Management -Special Issues • Knowledge Organization- Multilingual • Subject Vocabularies and Ontologies • Interlinking – Access to Different Types of • Information - (Projects, News – RSS Feeds) • Open Access – making agricultural knowledge in science and • Technology available • Open Archive Pilots – making agricultural knowledge in science and Technology available

19. China’s Knowledge for the World – A Proposal • China has achieved food security for more than 1.3 billion people • Agricultural Science and Technology was relevant for these achievements • Chinese Agricultural Science and Technology is relevant for other Developing Countries, but not accessible • Most of the material is not published and the published material is published in Han Yu. • Today it is possible to make these materials accessible for the world • We want to propose you a common big initiative • ...making a lot of material from the Chinese Accademies of Agricultural Science available for the world

20. 3AAS GAAS 4AAS CAAS OA OA OA OA China’s Knowledge for the World – The Design French English AGRIS-AP AGR/CAT-Machine Translation Portal Spanish

21. China’s knowledge for the WorldImplementation Steps • Selection of 5- 8 participating organizations • Formulation of an Open Access Policy • Set Up of Open Archives (Full Text and Meta Data) • Definition of Services • Introduction of OAI/MHP and AGRIS search plug in • Introduction of Harvesting or WebService Mechanisms • Developmet of “good enough” translation tool based on existing software • Development of multilingual Portal using AGROVOC/CAT

22. China’s knowledge for the WorldWho will benefit? • All countries in the world who still have to fight for food security • Farmers in developing countries who face the same problems Chinese farmers faced and face • China, getting the credits to take an important position in knowledge transfer for combating hunger • China, because technology export will follow knowledge export