Wilma Roem NL Meeting Making Agricultural Information available and accessible Wageningen 13 November 2008

Repository on LEISA Information on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture LEISA Network: Network of ILEIA and 6 partner organisations that produce the LEISA Magazines

LEISA Network web page: http://www.leisa.info

Exchange knowledge within Network of partner organisations Exchange knowledge with broader community, authors/readers and beyond Objectives Interactive LEISA Website: Create online LEISA community Provide Open Access to LEISA Information/knowledge Facilitate the Exchange of experience based information Facilitate Network communication Knowledge Network for sustainable agriculture

Objectives Interactive LEISA Website:

Create online LEISA community

Provide Open Access to LEISA Information/knowledge

Facilitate the Exchange of experience based information

Facilitate Network communication

Online Network Data Bases provide: Portal for articles LEISA Magazines (4100) Contacts: experts and organisations (2000) References: Library (7000)

Portal for articles LEISA Magazines (4100)

Contacts: experts and organisations (2000)

References: Library (7000)

LEISA articles Practical experiences Sustainable agricultural approaches Small-scale farming Lessons learned Written by people involved Publish these stories in 6 languages For practitioners and….

Practical experiences

Sustainable agricultural approaches

Small-scale farming

Lessons learned

Written by people involved

Publish these stories in 6 languages

For practitioners and….

Open Access Access to collection of full text articles Both PDF and HTML format Facilitate translation Acknowledge the source of the information Open Archive (OAI) Format RSS feed in development

Access to collection of full text articles

Both PDF and HTML format

Facilitate translation

Acknowledge the source of the information

Open Archive (OAI) Format

RSS feed in development

Number of readers Total readership of all editions of the printed magazine is about a quarter of a million Total number of visits LEISA website pages is 80000 per month

Review Website EUFORIC Comparison with other websites Strengths and weaknesses Amount of information, many visitors Not very visible international, search function Report with recommendations Improvements in progress

EUFORIC

Comparison with other websites

Strengths and weaknesses

Amount of information, many visitors

Not very visible international, search function

Report with recommendations

Improvements in progress

Review website 2008 LEISA website dominates the document collection for specific subjects within sustainable agriculture

Implementations: Google analytics Global edition its own pages Social book marking RSS feeds New search page

Google analytics

Global edition its own pages

Social book marking

RSS feeds

New search page

Visitors Number of visitors and number of pages visited, number of countries and referring sites where visitors come from, for each edition average per month (Google analytics) 10 19 2.8 100 China 18 50 3.9 400 India 18 60 2.7 343 West Africa 51 65 2.7 1820 Brazil 119 66 2.2 7960 Latin America 44 100 2.8 1200 Global edition 214 138 4.0 5566 LEISA home page Referring sites Countries pages viewed visitors Edition

Number of visitors and number of pages visited, number of countries and referring sites where visitors come from, for each edition

average per month (Google analytics)

Future developments Marketing and communication Name Style sheets New series of digital teaching manuals Wiki’s Network communication DGroups BLOG

Marketing and communication

Name

Style sheets

New series of digital teaching manuals

Wiki’s

Network communication

DGroups

BLOG

Questions for discussion How to get PDF files better noticed by Google? Increase referring sites? Cooperate more between repositories?

How to get PDF files better noticed by Google?

Increase referring sites?

Cooperate more between repositories?