1. Project Presentation The CIARD RING “a Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING) that share information related to agricultural research and innovation for development (ARD)” A CIARD project led by GFAR

2. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring ARD information now Agriculture-related information on the Internet is limited, widely scattered and not organized for easy access Complex information needs for agricultural research, innovation and development cannot be met

3. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring Availability is just not enough! HTML Users HTML We need to know if a certain technology has been used in a specific country and in a dryland area for a specific crop and if there are related projects completed or ongoing, who is funding them and where we can find the project outputs? TECA Best practices Country profiles CARIS WISARDAGRIS HTML Country NARS HTML ICARDA HTML AiDA HTML Crop database HTML OPACs Users have to locate and search several sources that provide partial answers to complex questions

4. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring Solution: value added services Value added information services that enable to search, collate and integrate information from various sources acting as gateways to information sources OPAC

5. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring Solution: value added services CARIS / WISARD Users We need to know if a certain technology has been used in a specific country and in a dryland area for a specific crop and if there are related projects currently ongoing and where we can find the project outputs? TECA Best practices Country profiles AGRIS Country NARS ICARDA AiDA Crop database Geo-ontology Crop ontology Organizations Directory Agrovoc gateway OA gateway OPAC

6. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring What is missing Value added services cannot be built without awareness of what others have done: which sources are available how to tap into them how to exploit their semantics

7. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring The RING: supporting value added services The CIARD RING provides the missing routemap to the existing services an orientating service an infrastructure for interoperability of agricultural research information services

8. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring The CIARD RING service The CIARD RING is a registry of existing ARD information services the featured services are categorized and interlinked according to criteria based on: standards used, vocabulary used, technology used, protocols used, level of interoperability etc. detailed instructions on how to interoperate the featured services are provided

9. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring Submission flow The services featured in the RING are submitted directly by their managers and technical staff Anybody can register and submit a service; the organizations responsible for the service will be alerted upon submission If they are not already CIARD partners, the organizations that own and manage the submitted services will be invited to become CIARD partners

10. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring Who can benefit from the RING? users looking for existing services into which they can tap for retrieving information and feeding it into their information systems users looking for existing services to which they can contribute their contents and through which they can disseminate their information. users interested in an overview of the current offer of information services in ARD

11. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring Services in the RING: examples Services that provide RSS feeds Services that provide XML exports of information based on agreed metadata sets Services that share their documents participating in the new AGRIS or in the Open Archive Initiative Services that offer web services for accessing and re-using their information etc...

12. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring Services in the RING The CIARD RING covers both information services and information sources The definition of "service" includes any form of providing information from one server instance (website, mail server, web services, XML archive...) to many clients (browsers, email clients, news readers, harvesters...)

13. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring What you can build out of it Services that offer a common browsing or searching interface to different sources Integrated services providing relations between entities (organizations, projects, experts, documents) through semantic-web technologies Services that interface the different knowledge organization systems (KOS) used by different sources Services providing advanced services like digests, bibliographies, best practices, surveys etc. etc...

14. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring Be part of the RING The CIARD RING service is available at: www.ciardring.net A logo will be designed that can be used by all featured services to label them and indicate their participation in the CIARD RING Registration of services in the RING was opened up in OCTOBER 2009

15. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring Global Public Goods The CIARD RING and the featured information services will be free and publicly available, thus constituting Global Public Goods that can be leveraged by any organization, person or information service.

16. Project Presentation The Global ARD Ring Invitation We invite you all to - make your services known through the CIARD RING - learn how to exploit other services in the CIARD RING Thank You