Items in the category "Knowledge management"

Reorienting open repositories to the challenges of the Semantic Web: Experiences from FAO’s contribution to the resource processing and discovery cycle in repositories in the agricultural domain

Image - EGFAR [Document] The use of widely-used metadata standards is essential to guarantee the visibility and retrieval of documents stored in open repositories. Attention should be paid to the creation and exchange of meaningful metadata to enhance interoperability amongst repositories and provide value added services....

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 (...

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.2 Household Nutrition Security: Briefing Paper

Image - EGFAR [Document] While the research agenda is growing, there remains limited concrete evidence on how agriculture–nutrition linkages work. A mapping exercise has been completed by DFID/LCIRAH outlining the research gaps. However more nutrition-relevant data from agricultural interventions needs to be generated,...

GCARD2. Breakout Session C1.1. Public Investments - Session Brief

Image - EGFAR [Document] Compiling accurate, up-to-date information on AR4D investments and their impacts is extremely challenging, time consuming and is contingent on available human and financial resources. The ASTI initiative is geared not only to assess investments but also to address how to identify indicators for...

GCARD2. Breakout session C 2.1 Institutional knowledge and learning

Image - EGFAR [Document] This session will focus on how to strengthen institutional capacities as well as multi-disciplinary and multi-organizational networking, including through improved policies, management practices, structures and incentives, so that institutions become more adaptive and responsive, as well as more...

GCARD2. Breakout session C3.1 Sharing and Using Agricultural Knowledge - Briefing Paper. Access, Sharing and Transformation of Agricultural Data and Information

Image - EGFAR [Document] Three priority areas of action for making data and information accessible will be discussed. The first priority area is to improve investment through introduction of sound policies and coordinated global, regional and national approaches. The second priority is to develop organizational...

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...

AgriVIVO for enabling global networking for agriculture. Concept Note

Image - EGFAR [Document] Concept note for the AgriVIVO project. The primary goal of AgriVIVO is to facilitate better networking of individual researchers and the organizations they belong to for better collaborations and less duplication of efforts. This project will demonstrate the potential for AgriVIVO to leverage...

AgriVIVO: an Ontology-based Store of URIs and Relations between Entities in Agricultural Research

Image - EGFAR [Document] In order to facilitate better collaboration between agricultural research actors and ensure more effective management of research projects and more rational funding, it is desirable to have access to comprehensive information on people's expertise, areas of activities of Institutions, existing...

Interim Proceedings of International Expert Consultation on “Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing”. Beijing, 20-23 June 2011

Image - EGFAR [Document] The International Expert Consultation at Beijing from 20-23 June 2011 sought to stimulate and develop broad-based consideration of AR4D data and is an initial step in a future global activity towards more effective and efficient sharing of Agriculture research-related data and information. The...

Focus points

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