Download The CIARD RING for building integrated information

The CIARD RING
for building integrated information systems
Ajit Maru
GFAR Secretariat
Rome
Outline
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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
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Agriculture is increasingly becoming more
knowledge Intensive
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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
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Agricultural Innovation System
and Possible New Information Flows
Seed
Supplier
Pesticide
Supply
Farmer
Local
Transporter
Fertilizer
Seller
Consumer
Extension Support
Research
Manager
Retail Marketing
Retail Packaging
NARO
Farmers
Storage
Market
Researcher
Processing
Retail Processing Bulk
Transporter
Packaging
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
PROSUMERS
Input Providers
Market Intermediaries
Researchers
Farmer Organizations
Consumers and Consumer
Organizations
Extension Agents
Government
Non-Government
Organizations
Consumers and Consumer
Organizations
Researchers
Input Providers
Non-Government
Organizations
Extension Agents
Government
Farmer Organizations
Market Intermediaries
Individual Farmers
Change in Existing ARD Information
Management Models
MODERN ICTS HAVE BROUGHT:
•MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
•MULTIPLE CHANNELS FOR INFORMATION
•COMPLEX, MULTIPLE FLOWS OF INFORMATION
•MIXED MEDIA
Change in Existing ARD Information
Management Models
MODERN ICTS HAVE BROUGHT:
For Communication:
•SMS
•MMS
•BLOGS
•TWITS
•FAQs, Q&A Services
•SOCIAL MEDIA (FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, FLICKR)
•PHOTOGRAPHS, AUDIO and VIDEO
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
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Internet and World Wide Web
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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
Routemap to Information
Nodes and Gateways
“a
(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!
Users have to locate and search several
sources that provide partial answers to
complex questions
TECA
HTML
Best
Country Country Crop
practices profiles NARS
database ICARDA CARIS WISARD AiDA
HTML
HTML
HTML
HTML
HTML
HTML
HTML
HTML
AGRIS
HTML
OPACs
HTML
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?
Users
CIARD RING
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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
CIARD.RING
Contributing through CIARD
to add value to value addition
being done by information systems
services for their users
(RE)GENERATE – ADD VALUE – (RE)USE
Solution: value added services
Country
profiles
Country
NARS
Geo-ontology
Maize
Best
TECA practices
gateway
gateway
Users
CARIS /
WISARD AiDA
gateway
Crop ontology
Crop
ICARDA
database
Organizations
Directory
Agrovoc
OA
gateway
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?
AGRIS
OPAC
What is missing?
Value added services cannot
be built without awareness
of what others have done:
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which sources are available?
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how to tap into them?
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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
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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
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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
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China – CAAS
India - ICAR
The CIARD RING service
The CIARD RING is a
registry of existing ARD
information services
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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
A Generic Framework of ICT use f Innovation
or Agricultural Innovation
Increase in
Social Capital
Learning
in
Communities
Through
Continuous
Conversation
Extension Workers
Input Suppliers
Knowledge
Market Intermediaries
Self
Help
Group
Leaders, Community Leaders
Intermediary
School Teachers, Postmen, Students
Telecenter
“Bus” /
Radio Channels
TV Channels
Satellite Links
Information
Internet Services
Pathways
Cellular Telephony Providers
Information
Platform
Research Institute, NGO, FO, Cooperative
Private Sector Input Provider, Bank
Supermarket chain
Information
Platform
Information
Information
Platform
Information
Radio Station
Television Station
Website
SMS Server
Telephone based
Q&A Services
Information
Organization
Information
Platform
Information
Information
Platform
Information
Information
Platform
Information
Development
A Generic Framework of ICT use f Innovati
on
or Agricultural Innovation
Increase in
Social Capital
Learning
in
Communities
Through
Continuous
Conversation
Extension Workers
Input Suppliers
Knowledge
Market Intermediaries
Self
Help
Group
Leaders, Community Leaders
Intermediary
School Teachers, Postmen, Students
Telecenter
“Bus” /
Radio Channels
TV Channels
Satellite Links
Information
Internet Services
Pathways
Cellular Telephony Providers
Information
Platform
Research Institute, NGO, FO, Cooperative
Private Sector Input Provider, Bank
Supermarket chain
Information
Platform
Information
Information
Platform
Information
Information
Organization
Information
Platform
Information
Radio Station
Television Station
Website
SMS Server
Telephone based
Q&A Services
CIARD MOVEMENT
Information
Platform
Information
Information
Platform
Information
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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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make your services known through the CIARD
RING
- learn how to exploit other services in the
CIARD RING
Thank You