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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
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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
HTML
Country NARS
HTML
ICARDA
HTML
AiDA
HTML
Crop database
HTML
OPACs
Users have to locate and search several sources that provide partial answers to complex questions
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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
Geo
-on
tolo
gy
Crop ontology
Organizations Directory
Agrovocgateway gateway
gateway
OA
gateway OPAC
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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...
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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...)
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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...
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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.
Project PresentationThe Global ARD Ring
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