the ciard ring, an infrastructure for interoperability of agricultural research information services
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IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
The CIARD RING
an infrastructure for interoperability of agricultural research information services
Valeria Pesce (GFAR), Ajit Maru (GFAR), Johannes Keizer (FAO)
The CIARD RING
IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
ARD information now
Agriculture-related information on the Internet is limited, widely scattered and not organized for easy access
information cannot be found;
information cannot be re-used, re-packaged and re-purposed
Complex information needs for agricultural research, innovation and development cannot be met.
The CIARD RING
IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
Availability is just not enough!
HTML HTMLHTML
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
The CIARD RING
IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
Solution: value added services
Value added information services that enable to
search, collate and integrateinformation from various sources
acting as gateways to information sources
The CIARD RING
IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
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
Any repository
gatewayAny OPAC
Maize
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IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
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
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IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
The CIARD RING service
The CIARD RING is a global registry of information sources and services in agriculturesuch as search engines, databases, repositories, Open Archives, feeds…
The CIARD RING provides the missing routemap to the existing services
The CIARD RING
IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
Who will use the RING? Information professionals looking for existing
services into which they can tap for feeding their information systems
Information professionals / managers looking for existing services throug which they can disseminate their information.
users interested in an overview of the current offer of information services in ARD
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IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
How it works The RING categorizes and interlinks the featured
services according to:
>> content criteria such as thematic coverage geographic coverage content type target audience
>> technical criteria such as
standards adopted vocabularies used technologies used protocols implemented
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IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
Services in the RING
The CIARD RING covers both information services and information sources
Technical definition !!
… 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...)
The CIARD RING
IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
An infrastructure for interoperability
How does the CIARD RING provide an infrastructure to improve the accessibility of agricultural information?
1) it provides a map of accessible information sources with instructions on how they can be searched effectively;
http://www.agencia.cnptia.embrapa.br/
http://eprints.iari.res.in
http://lad.nafri.org.la
http://ricelib.irri.cgiar.org:81/screens/opacmenu.html
http://www.sidalc.net
The CIARD RING
IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
An infrastructure for interoperability
How does the CIARD RING provide an infrastructure to improve the accessibility of agricultural information?
2) tit indicates the level and mode of interoperability of information services
The CIARD RING
IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
An infrastructure for interoperabilityHow does the CIARD RING provide an infrastructure to improve the
accessibility of agricultural information?
3) It provides examples and instructions for building enhanced integrated services that repackage information in different ways.
The CIARD RING
IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
What can be built out of it Services that offer a common browsing or searching
interface to different sources aggregating and harvesting services; integrated services providing relations between entities
(organizations, projects, experts, documents) through semantic-web technologies;
Value added services that re-package information and make it available through different channels (text messaging, radio etc.);
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IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
Be part of the RING The CIARD RING service is available at:
www.ciard.net/ring
Registering a service in the RING automatically makes you a CIARD partner
Partners that register services in the RING are invited to display the RING logo
The CIARD RING
IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
The CIARD RING
IAALD 13th Congress, Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010
InvitationWe invite you all to
- make your services known through the CIARD RING
- learn how to tap into other services in the CIARD RING
Thank You
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