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CIARD presented at eWorld conference
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1Aug 1-3, 2011 eWorld 2011 Forum
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http://www.ciard.net/
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the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development
(CIARD) initiative is working to make agricultural research information publicly
available and accessible to all.
http://www.ciard.net/
Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development
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• Availability, Accessibility & Applicability (AAA)
Why? - Maximizing Research Impact (among other things)
“To make public domain agricultural research information and knowledge truly accessible to all”
Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development
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Manifesto
Checklist
Pathway
Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development
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CIARD Manifesto
http://www.ciard.net/ciard-manifesto
Towards a Knowledge Commons on Agricultural Research for Development
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CIARD Checklist
http://www.ciard.net/checklist
- Set of items towards achievement of the CIARD Manifesto and Values. It is not a set of requirements
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http://www.ciard.net/pathways
- Set of good practices and "how to" guides based on the experiences of other institutions.
CIARD PATHWAYS
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Yellow pages for agricultural information services
www.ciard.net/ring
an infrastructure for interoperability of agricultural research information services
CIARD RINGCIARD RING
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value added information services that allow to search, collate and
integrate information from various sources acting as gateways
to information sources
requires awareness of what others have done:
• which sources are available
• how to tap into them
• how to exploit their semantics
To facilitate / enable the creation of
Objective of the RING
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Registering a service in the RING automatically makes you a CIARD
partner
www.ciard.net/ring
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Knowledge and Information Management OfficerFAO Regional Office for Asia and the PacificBangkok, Thailand