Items in the category "Information dissemination"

Preliminary Work towards Publishing Vocabularies for Germplasm and Soil Data as Linked Data

Image - EGFAR [Document] The agINFRA project focuses on the production of interoperable data in agriculture, starting from the vocabularies and Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) used to describe and classify them. In this paper we report on our first steps in the direction of publishing agricultural Linked Open Data (...

GFAR Annual Report 2012

GFAR Annual Report 2012 - Image [Document] 2012 has been a highly productive year. The Global Forum has reinforced its status as the unique multi-stakeholder body addressing agricultural research, extension, education and enterprise and their role in national development (here termed agricultural research-for-development, AR4D). Demands...

Towards better networking and collaboration in agriculture: AgriVIVO 1.0 launched

AgriVIVO 1.0 launched [News] To enable better networking and collaboration in agriculture, AgriVIVO, managed by the GFAR Secretariat and developed jointly with Cornell University and FAO, has been launched: http://www.agrivivo.net.   AgriVIVO is a search portal built to facilitate connections between all actors...

GCARD2. Breakout session C3.2 Making Use of Knowledge and Advisory Systems

Image - EGFAR [Document] The paper will discuss the role of advisory services within agricultural innovation systems; the importance of enhanced capacities for better performance at individual, organisational, and enabling environment level; the constraints and roles of actors at national, regional, and global level; and...

Two training courses on agricultural scientific data sharing and the CIARD RING organized by the CIARD RING China working group

CIARD RING China working group - training [News] The CIARD RING China working group organized two workshops in June and July 2012 to raise awareness on the objectives of the CIARD RING and train staff of Chinese agricultural science Institutions in the use of the RING portal. Part of the workshops was dedicated to the illustration of...

National Agriculture Data/Information Sharing System Development Workshop in Hangzhou, China

China RING [News] In order to promote agricultural scientific research data and information sharing, accelerate the development of China's agricultural information sharing system, establish effective cooperation mechanisms, strengthen the building of a national agricultural scientific research information...

GFAR events embedded into the FAO Country Profiles

FAO country profiles [News] The FAO Country Profiles information system (http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles) is an information retrieval tool which groups FAO and partner organizations' archives of information in agriculture and development in a single area and groups it and presents it by country. The FAO...

The CIARD RING. A Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING) that share information related to agricultural research and innovation for development (ARD)

Image - EGFAR [Document] The Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING) is a CIARD project led by GFAR. The Routemap consists of a registry of existing information services in ARD, indexed and described in a way that makes them more easily "exploitable" for building value-added integrated services. The idea behind...

Global NTFP Partnership ¿ Activities 2007 and Plans 2008. GFAR Programme Committee Meeting, Beijing, November 2007

Image - EGFAR [Document] NTFP GPP progress report 2007. PowerPoint presentation at the Programme Committee on 28/11/2007 during the GFAR Statutory Meetings, Bejing, China, 28/11/2007-01/12/2007.

Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species. Progress Report 2007

Image - EGFAR [Document] Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species. Progress Report 2007. PowerPoint presentation at the Programme Committee on 28/11/2007 during the GFAR Statutory Meetings, Bejing, China, 28/11/2007-01/12/2007.

The ICM4ARD GPP. Progress report from 2004-2007. Report for GFAR Statutory Meetings ¿ Beijing, China

Image - EGFAR [Document] ICM4ARD GPP Progress Report 2007. PowerPoint presentation at the Programme Committee on 28/11/2007 during the GFAR Statutory Meetings, Bejing, China, 28/11/2007-01/12/2007.

National Datasets on Research Institutions

Image - EGFAR [Document] Datasets of Research Institutions and focal points in the Central Asia and Caucasus

EGFAR Task Force

Image - EGFAR [Document] Draft background and terms of reference for the EGFAR Taskforce

EGFAR - the GFAR web space

Image - EGFAR [Document] Generic brochure on the new EGFAR website

GFAR Poster - Information and Knowledge Sharing

Image - EGFAR [Document] GFAR poster created for the GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference. Theme: Information and Knowledge Sharing

Web Ring Project

Image - EGFAR [Document] The Web Ring will be an information gateway giving access to information from different and relevant ARD information sources

Implementing Open Archives Initiatives (OAI) standards in the GFAR Document Repository: A project proposal

Image - EGFAR [Document] The GFAR Document Repository is an Information system and a digital archive which was launched in October 2006 to organize, disseminate, and preserve all the documentation available in GFAR. The system was implemented using a customized version of the EIMS (Electronic Information Management System...

GFAR Bibliographic database submission guidelines

Image - EGFAR [Document] GFAR Bibliographic database submission guidelines have been established to ensure quality metadata in the GFAR Document Repository. It is highly recommended to follow these regulations in order to produce consistency in the form of names of the catalogue access points. The guidelines have been...

Proceedings of AARINENA RAIS General Assembly Meeting 25-26 April 2006 ICARDA, Amman, Jordan

Image - EGFAR [Document] Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become an essential component for development, not only of the agricultural sector, but also of industrial, environmental, and service sectors as well. It is a crucial element in establishing the sustainable development in any country. Realizing...