Better lives through livestock
CG Core Metadata Reference Guide
Abenet Yabowork
Knowledge Curation Manager
International Livestock Research Institute
Marie-Angelique Laporte
Associate Scientist
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Agricultural Research Data Network for Modeling and Analytics
(ARDN-MA), Virtual Hackathon, 17 – 20 November 2020

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Context
Adoption of open source institutional repositories (E.g. DSpace, CKAN, and Dataverse
in late 2000s)
Commitment to improve accessibility and findability of CGIAR research outputs
Need to create meaningful interoperability among CGIAR platforms and systems
Need for improved reporting and impact assessment

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CG Core Version 1
Set of elements applicable across CGIAR
repositories
Intended to enable consistent annotation of research products
Aimed at improving Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and
Reusability of CGIAR digital assets
CGcore v1 is not closely related to existing metadata schemas
Lack of exact mapping to generic and widely- adopted metadata
schemas and lack of clear guidelines on how to use them were
hindering required level of interoperability within and
beyond the CGIAR

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CG Core Version 2
Application profile based on Dublin
Core: clearly maps to the schema
Improves Findability, Accessibility,
Interoperability and Reusability of
CGIAR digital assets
Cuts duplication of contents across the
CGIAR by enabling interoperability
Gives standardized guidance about
metadata fields and controlled
vocabularies
(E.g. Using AGROVOC, ORCID, ISO 639
alpha 3, SPDX etc)

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CG Core has been instrumental in
developing innovations
Global Agricultural Research Data Innovation
Acceleration Network
GARDIAN FAIRification Workflow
CGSpace Explorer (a tool to find, explore and
visualize open repository resources)
CGLabs

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CG core version 2: https://agriculturalsemantics.github.io/cg-core/cgcore.html
GARDIAN: https://gardian.bigdata.cgiar.org
CGSpace explorer: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/explorer/
FAIRification workflow: https://gardian.bigdata.cgiar.org/fair-workflow.php
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