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Talk at the AGNIC meeting, 2011, May 18

Dr. Johannes KeizerOffice of Knowledge Exchange, Research and ExtensionFood and Agriculture Organization of the UN

CIARD Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for development

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Contribution and Participation in Science

Territory size shows proportion of scientific papers published in 2001 by authors living there. Copyright SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan)

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RING - Charts and numbersThe CIARD RING

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Founding Partners

and growing…..

The Community

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Why is coherence in agricultural information so important? Innovation systems in

agriculture are critical to the fight against hunger & sustainable use of natural resources

Rapid agricultural innovation is knowledge-intensive and depends on access to information

Coherence in information management will increase efficiency of knowledge sharing/exchange and reduce duplication

Why enhance access to agricultural information?

• Most public domain agricultural information not yet widely accessible

• New types of research, organisations, and collaboration create new demands

• Improving the way the partners work together requires greater information and information flow systems

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“To make public domain agricultural research information and knowledge truly accessible to

all”

• All organizations that create and possess public agricultural research information disseminate and share it more widely

• CIARD partners will (a) coordinate their efforts, (b) promote common formats, (c) adopt open systems

• Create a global network of public collections of information

The Vision and Manifesto

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Global and Local Challenges in Research Communication

• Capacities– Lack of institutional policies to enable research communication– Lack of specialized skills in complex digital technologies

• Diversity of Responses– Customized Information/Knowledge Systems – In-house IKM Programmes– Institutional Networks– National Initiatives– R&D Community Forums/Platforms– Virtual and Web2.0 tools for Participation/Interaction

Developing Institutional Readiness

1. Introduce and gain support for the CIARD Manifesto and Values in your institution

2. Have your institution recognised as a CIARD partner

3. Adopt a formal institutional information/ communication strategy

4. Develop the capacities of your institution to achieve the CIARD Checklist

5. Develop national/local partner networks to share resources and skills

Increasing the Availability, Accessibility and Applicability of Research Outputs

6. Ensure your research outputs are available digitally. 7. Develop institutional or thematic information

repositories of your outputs as open archives.8. Use international metadata standards, data exchange

protocols, and agricultural vocabularies and thesauri. 9. Develop a clearly defined licensing policy for your

outputs. 10. Optimize the structure and the content of web sites for

search engines.11. Share metadata by participating in international

information systems.12. Use ‘social’ Web 2.0 media and applications to share

your outputs.13. Build formal and informal networks to to repackage

your outputs.

Checklist of Good Practices

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2nd IISAST Consultation

CIARD Initiative launched

(15 founding partners)

Regional Consultations

70 countries 150 info prof.

1 st IISAST Consultation

TASK FORCESCIARD endorsed (GCARD and FARA)

+112 partners and growing…

20092007 20082005

Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development

A new global movement to provide a platform for coherence between information-related initiatives

to make public domain agricultural research information and knowledge truly accessible to all

e-Consultation & Beijing Consultation

+ Regional Workshops

GCARD 2012

2010 20122011

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1st Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD), March 2010 Recommended that:

Stakeholders use the potential of multi-partner initiatives such as CIARD to facilitate availability and access to information and knowledge in innovative ways.

5th General Assembly of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), July 2010

Recommended that CIARD should:

advocate for more coherent approaches to knowledge sharing and communication of the outputs of agricultural research support development of national capacities for all types of stakeholders

Endorsement of

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CIARD: Benefits to Institutions

increased national/international visibility and use of their research output and content services

increased exchange of information content between their system(s) and others

increased awareness of other research outputs through information content and services

increased access to specialised expertise and knowledge and other partners’ proven solutions

CIARD: Institutions’ Contributions

• promote and implement the CIARD vision and objectives

• register products and services on research outputs through the CIARD RING

• adopt/promote international standards related to digital research outputs

• register institutional profile on Checklist

• share lessons learned and experiences

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http://www.ciard.net

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Vision

Manifesto(Values)

Checklist

Pathways

Fair

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Advocacy Task Force

Capacity Building Task Force

Content Management Task Force

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Global registry of information sources and services in agriculture

information providers register their services in various categories – e.g.

103 document repositories with 4 million accessions, and 750,00 full text documents

RSS feeds – news & events: 18

Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways

http://ring.ciard.net/

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RING – Numbers

Number of documents potentially reachable through the services registered in the RING.

Types of service considered: document repositories and bibliographic databases.

http://ring.ciard.net/totals