Background

All agricultural research and development organizations need updated and reliable information on other organizations and institutions, their expertise, projects and projects outputs.

Some organizations store these data in their own databases, which are difficult and costly to keep up to date.
Other organizations use external information systems but they cannot rely on just one system to comprehensively provide all information, because each information system differs in subject coverage, type coverage and quantity and quality of information. Besides, only a few of these systems share data among themselves.
Organizations also cannot be sure that their own information in other databases is correct and up to date.

During the last Content Management Taskforce meeting in Wageningen (March 2007), the issue was raised of what the overall workflow should be in managing information on organizations in a decentralized way in order to avoid the proliferation of databases and the problem of duplication, and a distributed architecture with a central Registry File was proposed in order to manage information on organizations uniformly on a global scale.

The project

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