Review of Progress and Prospects



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Expert Consultation
International Information Systems

for Agricultural Science and Technology - Review of Progress and Prospects

19-21 October 2005


FAO Headquarters

Rome
CONTENTS



ACRONYMS 3

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4

1. INTRODUCTION 6

1.1 Background 6

1.2 Process 6

1.3 Introductory plenary presentations 6

2. GOAL AND OUTCOMES 8

3. GENERAL FINDINGS 8

4. ACTION AREAS 10

4.1 Advocacy 10

4.2 Capacity building 11

4.3 Content management 12

5. PARTNERSHIP 15

5.1 Analysis of existing partnerships 15

5.2 Motivation 16

5.3 Mechanisms for collaboration at international level 17

Annex 1 18

Background Documents and other Materials Distributed 18

Annex 2 19

List of Participants 19

Institute For Scientific And Technological Information (Insti) 20

Annex 3 23



Agenda and Schedule 23


ACRONYMS





AARINENA

Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa

AGORA

Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

AGRIS

International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology

AGMES

Agricultural Metadata Element Set

AGNIC

Agriculture Network Information Centre

AGROVOC

Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus

AIMS

Agricultural Information Management Standards

AJOL

African Journals Online

AOS

Agricultural Ontology Service

ARD

Agricultural Research for Development

ASARECA

Association for Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa

CABI

CAB International

CARDI

Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute

CGIAR

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

CIRAD

Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement

CLAES

Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert Systems

CTA

Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

DFID

Department for International Development, UK

FARA

Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

FORAGRO

Foro de las Américas para la Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico Agropecuario

GFAR

Global Forum on Agricultural Research

GlobAL.RAIS

GLOBal Alliance of the Regional Agricultural Information Systems

GPP

Global Partnership Programme

IAALD

International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists

IAC

International Agricultural Centre

ICM

Information and Communication Management

ICT

Information and Communication Technology

IFPRI

International Food Policy Research Institute

IICA

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

IM

Information Managements

IMARK

Information Management Resource Kit

INASP

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications

IT

Information Technology

ITO

ITrain Online

ITOCA

Information Training and Outreach Center for Africa

NAL

National Agricultural Library

NARIMS

National Agricultural Research Information Management System Project

NARS

National Agricultural Research System

OAI

Open Access Initiative

PERI

Programme for Enhancement of Research Information

RAIN

Regional Agricultural Information Network

RDF

Resource Description Framework

RSS

RDF Site Summary

WAICENT

World Agricultural Information Centre

ZADI

Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation und -information (Agricultural Information and Documentation Centre)



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