IDM CoP
Metadata Working
Group
Abenet Yabowork
Knowledge Curation Manager
International Livestock Research Institute
Marie-Angélique
Laporte
Associate Scientist
Alliance of Bioversity
International and CIAT

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
CGIAR Metadata Working Group set up
Context

Key achievements
Developed and released the CG Core
Metadata Schema and application profile
- Based on Dublin Core + CGIAR specific core
elements
- Guides how elements can be used
- Recommends use/reuse of existing
vocabularies, ontologies, controlled terms
https://agriculturalsemantics.github.io/cg-core/cgcore.html

Instrumental in developing innovations
(e.g. GARDIAN and CGSpace Explorer that help visualize
and aggregate all research outputs across CGIAR in one
place)
Interoperability cut duplication of thousands of
contents across the CGIAR
CGIAR metadata and data made easy to find for both
humans and computers
Improved Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and
Reusability of CGIAR digital assets
Key achievements
https://cgspace.cgiar.org
https://gardian.bigdata.cgiar.org

Future work
Define CG Core extensions
Share experience on the implementation of the Schema and build
capacities
Support publishing of controlled lists/taxonomies relevant to CGIAR
and agricultural research

Opportunities to collaborate?
CG Core Metadata Schema is shared with an open
license for anyone interested in the agricultural
community to adapt and/or use
Open to collaboration, co-development of CG Core
beyond the CGIAR for broader application in agricultural
domain
Contact us! metadata-wg@groups.cgiar.org

bigdata.cgiar.org