FAO (OEKCS) Activities in Opening Access to AR&D Information

Imma Subiratsknowledge and information management officerFAO of the United [email protected]

FAO (OEKCS) ACTIVITIES IN OPENING ACCESS TO AR&D INFORMATION

IT-Enhanced Organic, Agro-Ecological and Environmental EducationSeptember 16-17, 2010Budapest (Hungary)

INTRODUCING MYSELF Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension, OEK Standards, services and tools for dissemination, sharing, archiving

and processing of information, OEKCSMultilingual vocabulariesOpen source tools and platformsContent Aggregation ServicesSupport to IKM projects in member countries

IT-Enhanced Organic, Agro-Ecological and Environmental Education. 16th-17th September 2010. Budapest (Hungary)

WHAT AM I GOING TO TALK ABOUT? Tools, standards and services related to the

agricultural management information standards With the objective of:

Encouraging public domain agricultural information widely accessible

Increasing efficiency of knowledge sharing/exchange and reduce duplication

Improving the way the institutions share and work together in the agricultural information context


Open Access to Scientific Information

HOW ARE WE WORKING TOWARDS OPEN ACCESS? Access to research in a digital, online, free of charge and

free of most copyright/licensing restrictionsPromoting it - Advice and Capacity DevelopmentEnsuring the metadata quality of repositories and the use of

thesauri and other forms of authority control - StandardsContributing to the development of sustainable repositories by the

use of tools to make scientific publications (and later data) more accessible and visible - Tools

Removing access barriers by encouraging the creation of new service providers based on existing and mature metadata and semantics technology - Services


Knowledge Standards“making searching simpler and more efficient”

VOCABULARIES. AGROVOC Multilingual structured thesaurus for all subject fields in agriculture,

forestry, fisheries, food and related domains Standardizes the indexing process in order to make searching simpler

and more efficient and to guide the user to the most relevant sources Used worldwide (researchers, information management specialists)

for indexing, retrieving and organizing data in agricultural information systems

30,000 concepts- 600,000 labels- 20 languages 1,000 downloads per year

http://aims.fao.org/website/Search-AGROVOC/


EXCHANGE FORMATS. AGMES & APS AgMES (Agricultural Metadata Element Set) is an initiative that

encompasses semantic standards in the agriculture domain with respect to description, discovery, interoperability, and metadata exchange for different types of information resources Extension of Dublin Core

APs Document-like objects (AGRIS AP) Event Metadata (Ag-Events AP) Learning Resources Metadata (Ag-LR AP)

http://aims.fao.org/website/AgMES/


& Linked

Data

Tools“Creating information management systems based on standards widely used within the agricultural information community”

DOCUMENT REPOSITORY SOFTWARE (DRS)

AgriOcean DspaceCustomization of a specific Document Repository Software -Dspace

Software- to the agricultural information metadata & KOS standards

With the partnership of UNESCO/IOC-IODE Objectives

Assure quality in metadata creation Sharing information in a standardized manner Use of common semantics and interoperable syntaxesUse of controlled, multilingual vocabularies

First released to be published in Autumn 2010


CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMSIT-Enhanced Organic, Agro-Ecological and Environmental Education. 16th-17th September 2010. Budapest (Hungary)

Services“increasing the interoperability, reusability & cooperation”

SERVICE PROVIDERS. AGRIS Global public domain database with nearly 3 million

structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology

Harvests data from 100 participating institutions from 65 countries

2 ,000,000 visits in 2009

http://agris.fao.org/


SERVICE PROVIDERS. AGRIFEEDS Service that allows users to search and filter news and events from

several agricultural information sources Harvests feeds from more than 50 institutions Any institution can submit the feeds by first registering in AgriFeeds

http://www.agrifeeds.org/


REGISTRY. CIARD RING Registry of existing information services categorize according

to criteria based on standards used,vocabulary used, technology used,protocols used, level of interoperability, etc

ObjectiveTo facilitate the research of existing services which they can

leverage for building integrated, value-added information systemsTo provide an overview of the current offer of information services

in ARD

http://ring.ciard.net/


…AND AIMS A website for Agricultural Information Management

Standards Initiative with the goal of improving coherence among

agricultural information systems Objectives

To be a clearing house for information management standards To share and promote the use of common methodologies and tools

Targeted users Information management and information technology experts to build

systems that could easily exchange data Subject domain experts to use the services to ensure that their work ins

compliant with agricultural information standards and methodologies


WHAT IS AVAILABLE ON AIMS? OEKCS tools, standards and services The Events Service with regularly updated list of meetings,

workshops and conferences Registries of Tools, Metadata Standards & Knowledge

Organization systems Forums where to share expertise on how to use tools, standards

and methodologies

http://aims.fao.org/


Thank you for your attention

[email protected] Behalf of the FAO-OEKCS Team

IT-Enhanced Organic, Agro-Ecological and Environmental EducationSeptember 16-17, 2010Budapest (Hungary)