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The CIARD RING for building integrated information systems
Ajit MaruGFAR Secretariat
Rome
Outline
Increasingly Complex Information Needs for ARD
Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models
CIARD.RING and its role as a global support tool for building integrated information systems
Increasingly Complex Information Needs for ARD
Agriculture is increasingly becoming more knowledge Intensive Agriculture now with complex value addition chains
in globally competitive markets New Challenges
Ensuring Food Quality and Safety More Efficient Use of Natural Resources Reducing environmental degeneration and
enabling recovery from environmental damage Adapting to and mitigating effects of Climate
Change Managing Agricultural Biodiversity
Consumer
FertilizerSeller
Farmer
LocalTransporter
Storage
Packaging
BulkTransporter
Retail Processing
Retail Marketing
Retail Packaging
SeedSupplier
PesticideSupply
Market
Processing
Agricultural Innovation Systemand Possible New Information Flows
Researcher
Farmers
Extension Support
NARO
ResearchManager
Policy Makers Stakeholders
Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models
Scientist/Researcher Extension Agent Farmer
Scientist/Researcher Extension Agent Farmer
Complex Information Networks
Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models
Individual Farmers
Market Intermediaries
Farmer Organizations
Extension Agents
Government
Non-Government Organizations
Consumers and ConsumerOrganizations
Researchers
Input ProvidersIndividual Farmers
Market Intermediaries
Farmer Organizations
Extension Agents
Government
Non-Government Organizations
Consumers and ConsumerOrganizations
Researchers
Input ProvidersPROSUMERS
Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models
•MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
•MULTIPLE CHANNELS FOR INFORMATION
•COMPLEX, MULTIPLE FLOWS OF INFORMATION
•MIXED MEDIA
MODERN ICTS HAVE BROUGHT:
Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models
•SMS•MMS•BLOGS•TWITS•FAQs, Q&A Services •SOCIAL MEDIA (FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, FLICKR)•PHOTOGRAPHS, AUDIO and VIDEO
MODERN ICTS HAVE BROUGHT:
For Communication:
Beyond the printed word
Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models
GENERATE – MANAGE - USE
(RE)GENERATE – ADD VALUE – (RE)USE
Change in Information Management Models
Internet and World Wide Web
Web 1.0 – HTML and Hypertext Web 2.0 – Interactive, Dynamic Web
pages Web 3.0 – “Semantic” Web Web 4.0 – “Prosumer” Web through
Mixed Media
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 Initiative led by GFAR
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
Availability is just not enough!
HTML HTMLHTML
Users
HTMLHTMLHTML
We need to know if a certain technology has been used in a specific country and in a dry land 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
CIARD RING
What information is available and Where?
How can we access and make effective use?
Solution: value added services
Value added information services that enable to
search, collate and integrate information from various sources
acting as gateways to information sources
OPAC
Change in Existing ARD Information Management Models
(RE)GENERATE – ADD VALUE – (RE)USE
CIARD.RING
Contributing through CIARD
to add value to value additionbeing done by information systemsservices for their users
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 dry land 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
Maize
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?
The RING: supporting value added services
The CIARD RING provides the missing route map to the existing services
an orientating service an infrastructure for
interoperability of agricultural research information services
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...
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...)
The THAI CIARD RING
Have used services accessed automatically from CIARD.RING to help extension workers and Citrus farmers plan their operations in Citrus production in Thai language through documents available through services exposed by CIARD.RING
Outputs are available digitally
OTHER NATIONAL CIARD RINGS
China – CAAS India - ICAR
The CIARD RING serviceThe 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
Development
Innovation
Learningin
CommunitiesThrough
ContinuousConversation
Increase in Social Capital
A Generic Framework of ICT use for Agricultural Innovation
InformationPlatform
InformationOrganization
Information “Bus” /Pathways
KnowledgeIntermediary
Extension WorkersInput Suppliers
Market IntermediariesSelf Help Group Leaders, Community Leaders
School Teachers, Postmen, StudentsTelecenter
Radio ChannelsTV Channels
Satellite LinksInternet Services
Cellular Telephony ProvidersRadio StationTelevision StationWebsiteSMS ServerTelephone based Q&A Services
Research Institute, NGO, FO, CooperativePrivate Sector Input Provider, Bank
Supermarket chain
InformationPlatform
InformationOrganization
InformationPlatform
InformationOrganization
InformationPlatform
InformationOrganization
InformationPlatform
InformationOrganization
InformationPlatform
InformationOrganization
Development
Innovation
Learningin
CommunitiesThrough
ContinuousConversation
Increase in Social Capital
A Generic Framework of ICT use for Agricultural Innovation
InformationPlatform
InformationOrganization
Information “Bus” /Pathways
KnowledgeIntermediary
Extension WorkersInput Suppliers
Market IntermediariesSelf Help Group Leaders, Community Leaders
School Teachers, Postmen, StudentsTelecenter
Radio ChannelsTV Channels
Satellite LinksInternet Services
Cellular Telephony Providers Radio StationTelevision StationWebsiteSMS ServerTelephone based Q&A Services
Research Institute, NGO, FO, CooperativePrivate Sector Input Provider, Bank
Supermarket chain
InformationPlatform
InformationOrganization
InformationPlatform
InformationOrganization
InformationPlatform
InformationOrganization
InformationPlatform
InformationOrganization
InformationPlatform
InformationOrganization
CIARD MOVEMENT
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.
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
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...
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
Be part of the RING
The CIARD RING service is available at:
www.ciardring.net
A logo is available on the RING website that can be
used by all featured services to label them and indicate their participation
in the CIARD RING
Invitation
We invite you all to
- make your services known through the CIARD RING
- learn how to exploit other services in the CIARD RING
Thank You