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Open Access in
Agricultural Research for
Development – a Global
Movement
Dr. Johannes Keizer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Office of Knowledge Exchange Research and Extension
Knowledge and Capacity for Development

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2009-10-21 Dr. Johannes Keizer, FAO of the United Nations 2
Number and percentage of
undernourished persons
2004-2006: 873 million (13%)
2000-2002: 857 million (14%)
1995-1997: 825million (14%)
1990-1992: 845million (16%)
1979-1981 853million (19%)
1969-1971: 878million (24%)

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“... FAO’s principle task is to
work to ensure that the
world’s knowledge of food
and agriculture is available to
those who need it when they
need it and in a form which
they can access and use ...”

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This Presentation
The CIARD Initiative
Case Studies on Open Archives
Tools Adaptation

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
http://www.ciard.net

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
 Innovation systems in agriculture are critical
to the fight against hunger & sustainable use
of natural resources
 Most public domain agricultural information not
yet widely accessible
 New types of research, organisations, and
collaboration create new demands
 Improving the way the partners collaborate
requires greater access to, and more effective
exchange of, information
 Rapid agricultural innovation is knowledge-
intensive and depends on access to
information
CIARD challenges

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
CIARD vision
 Organizations that create and possess public
agricultural research information, share and
disseminate it more widely
 CIARD partners will
 coordinate their efforts,
 promote common formats,
 adopt open systems
 Create a global network of public collections of
information
 Coherence in information management will
increase efficiency & reduce duplication
“To make agricultural research information and
knowledge truly accessible to all”

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Open Access to
scientific and technical
publications in
Agriculture is a key
Issue for CIARD

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
http://www.ciard.net/pathways

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
AGRIS - network

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
AGRIS Network
Data Provider
Service Provider
The Standards & Tools
Protocols
OAI-PMH,
Z39.50, SRU
Data
Exchange
Standards
AGRIS
W
ebsite
KOS
Management
Tools
External
Service
Provider
External
Service
Provider
External
Service
Provider
Service
Provider
CIRAD
Service
Provider
CAAS
Other Service
Provider
Service
Provider
AGRORED
Service
Provider
DFID
INIFAP Data
Provider
KARI Data
Provider
ICCSTI Data
ProviderPARCC Data
Provider
FAO Data
Provider
ICRISAT Data
Provider
Other Data
Provider
Other Data
Provider

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
Case studies
• KAINET
• openAGRI
• GARA
• IODE Africa
• ThaiAgrisNetwork
• Open Acces Survey

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
KAINet. Kenya
 The Kenya Agricultural Information Network (KAINet) is a national
AGRIS project born out of the new AGRIS vision
 A three year pilot project funded by DFID, UK (Department for
International Development)
 Collaborative project with FAO, ASARECA-RAIN, CAB International,
and selected 5 national institutions
 Objectives
 strengthen national and institutional capacities to manage, disseminate
and exchange agricultural Information
 availability of full text content through the IR development
 promote use of standard tools and methodologies
 document the process and develop lessons learnt case study

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
Agric. Research Institutional
Repositories -Status in Kenya
Source: Graph by FAO. Source data from KARI, Kenya. May, 2010.

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
Openagri: open acces in India
 Agricultural research space provided by
agropedia (http://www.agropedia.net)
Has document types like Journal Articles,
Conference Papers, Books, Book Chapters,
Proceedings, Preprints, Multimedia content
All the content types possess unique application
profiles for them.
For each document being uploaded into this
repository, a set of appropriate keywords are
assigned automatically from Agrotags
Has Url: http://www.agropedia.net/openaccess

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
openagri statistics
• Books: 351
• Book Chapters: 29
• Journal Articles: 133
• Conference Papers: 19
• Proceedings: 13
• Abstracts: 342
• Miscellaneous: 17

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
• To strengthen access and paths to accessibility of
nationally generated agricultural knowledge
• To build capacity in national systems in Africa to
develop the institutional and infrastructural
environment necessary for the capture, preservation
and accessibility and use of their own national
agricultural knowledge
• To complement existing global and national access to
research information programmes
• To use GARA as a platform for preservation and
disaster recovery, and for the long term protection of
knowledge which might again become inaccessible
GARA - a CABI initiative

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
• Identified principles, workflows, document
selection criteria, and permissions
• Agreed non-destructive digitization to ensure
preservation of original copy, which could now be
the only copy
• ..upto now
• 520 full text article from Malawi
• 550 full text articles from Pakistan
• 680 full text articles from Philippines
• 157 full text articles from IAALD Conference
Pilot in Malawi, Pakistan and Phillippines

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
• Limited internet capacity in Africa:
o At the end of 2003, 64 kbps was a good connection
• Choose of Dspace
o Community/collection structure
o Customization possibilities
• Training:
o Local coordinators (16 information managers)
o Appointment of 2 DSpace administrators:
• Implementation at institute level:
= work of the information managers of OdinAfrica
OdinAfrica

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
• 31 Institutions in Africa and Latin America - ~3200
documents http://www.oceandocs.net
• IBSS(Sevastopol – Ukraine):
http://repository.ibss.org.ua/dspace/ - 1418 docs
o NIO (Goa-India): http://drs.nio.org/ - On DSpace - 3628
docs
o ODINPimris (http://pimrisregional.library.usp.ac.fj/ ) – On
Greenstone – 123 docs

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
Thai AGRIS network (1)

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
Thai AGRIS network (3)

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
Survey on Open Archives
 Data collection:
 150 Institutions approached
 82 repositories compiled surveys
 Type of Institution: Majority universities,
minority governmental, international and
Nongovernmental org
• 1993 – 2000: 1/2 repositories a year
• 2001≥ substantial increase of growth
• ↕
• promotion of OA

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
Software
A I M S

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
Comparing with other repositories

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Adaptation of Tools

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
- Weak metadata management in
DSpace
- No use of controlled vocabularies
- Not directed to produce linked data
- Tools
- AgriOcean Dspace
- AgriDrupal
- AgroTagger
Better tools for OA are needed

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
• Custom metadata schemas
• A schema for representation of AGRIS AP metadata
elements
• Enriched metadata input
• Custom input types for language qualification of selected
AGRIS AP metadata elements
• Annotation using multilingual thesauri
• Enriched metadata dissemination
• A Crosswalk plugin for OAI-PMH dissemination of
metadata in AGRIS AP format
• Mapping of AGRIS AP elements to DC for vanilla DC
dissemination of AGRIS AP metadata
AgriOceanDSPACE

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
• AgriOcean Dspace release: 09/2010
• Setting up of AgriOcean Dspace Community
on AIMS: 09-10/2010
• exchange of experiences
• Pilot Testing: “Bangladesh Agricultural
Universities’ Institutional Repository”
• Cooperation with DURASPACE
• Informing about the new AgriOcean Dspace implementations
• Collaborating in the Dspace Ambassadors Program
AgriOceanDSPACE

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
• Drupal is a popular OS tool to
manage communities, repositories, websites,
intranets
• A group of agricultural organizations have agreed
to develop an “AgriDrupal” initiative:
• to implement common data models, agricultural
vocabularies, and data exchange standards in Drupal
modules
• to make these customizations available globally
• to create a global community that shares experiences,
good practices and code
• Partners: FAO, GFAR, CGIAR, Cornell University,
Rangeland West initiative, Indian Council of
Agricultural Research, Condesan, etc.
Drupal

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
Authority control: subject: Agrovoc
>> click <<
Drupal data entry Agrovoc web services client popup
Drupal search interface

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
• Automatic Semantic Mark Up of Agricultural
publications
• Webservices
• Plug Ins for Drupal, Dspace and ePrints
http://agropedialabs.iitk.ac.in/Tagger/Agrotagger_text.php

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dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development
Berlin8Beijing,2010-10-25
Thank You!
http://www.ciard.net
http://ring.ciard.net
http://aims.fao.org
http://www.slideshare.net/Keizer/berlin8-keizer-20101025