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

Imma Subirats knowledge and information management officer FAO of the United Nations [email_address] FAO (OEKCS) ACTIVITIES IN OPENING ACCESS TO AR&D INFORMATION IT-Enhanced Organic, Agro-Ecological and Environmental Education September 16-17, 2010 Budapest (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, OEKCS
Multilingual vocabularies
Open source tools and platforms
Content Aggregation Services
Support to IKM projects in member countries
IT-Enhanced Organic, Agro-Ecological and Environmental Education. 16 th -17 th 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 restrictions
Promoting it - Advice and Capacity Development
Ensuring the metadata quality of repositories and the use of thesauri and other forms of authority control - Standards
Contributing 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/
IT-Enhanced Organic, Agro-Ecological and Environmental Education. 16 th -17 th September 2010. Budapest (Hungary) & Linked Data

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

DOCUMENT REPOSITORY SOFTWARE (DRS)
AgriOcean Dspace
Customization 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 syntaxes
Use of controlled, multilingual vocabularies
First released to be published in Autumn 2010

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IT-Enhanced Organic, Agro-Ecological and Environmental Education. 16 th -17 th 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
Objective
To facilitate the research of existing services which they can leverage for building integrated, value-added information systems
To 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_address]
On Behalf of the FAO-OEKCS Team
IT-Enhanced Organic, Agro-Ecological and Environmental Education September 16-17, 2010 Budapest (Hungary)

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

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