CIARD

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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

[email protected]