The document discusses the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) initiative, which aims to make agricultural research information publicly available and accessible to all. It outlines CIARD's goals of availability, accessibility, and applicability of information to maximize research impact. It also describes CIARD's manifesto, checklist, and pathways documents, as well as the CIARD RING infrastructure for interoperability between agricultural research information services.

1. eWorld2011 Forum Aug 1-3, 2011 1

2. http://www.ciard.net/ 2

3. Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development http://www.ciard.net/ the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) initiative is working to make agricultural research information publicly available and accessible to all. 3

4. Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development Availability, Accessibility & Applicability (AAA) Why? - Maximizing Research Impact (among other things) “To make public domain agricultural research information and knowledge truly accessible to all” 4

5. Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development Manifesto Checklist Pathway 5

6. CIARD Manifesto http://www.ciard.net/ciard-manifesto Towards a Knowledge Commons on Agricultural Research for Development 6

7. CIARD Checklist http://www.ciard.net/checklist - Set of items towards achievement of the CIARD Manifesto and Values. It is not a set of requirements 7

8. CIARD PATHWAYS http://www.ciard.net/pathways - Set of good practices and "how to" guides based on the experiences of other institutions. 8

9. CIARD RING www.ciard.net/ring an infrastructure for interoperability of agricultural research information services Yellow pages for agricultural information services 9 CIARD RING

11. how to tap into them

12. how to exploit their semantics10 Objective of the RING

13. Registering a service in the RING automatically makes you a CIARD partner 11 www.ciard.net/ring

14. gerard.sylvester@fao.org Knowledge and Information Management Officer FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Bangkok, Thailand 12