Use of Technology and Semantics in the Open Access in Agriculture and Related Sciences: A survey

Dear CIARD CMTF members,



Please find attached a survey draft, with it we aim to get a detailed overview of the state of the art of OA and OAI implementations within the agricultural research community and help to define future actions related to OA promotion activities. We also think that the outcome of this survey should provide precious information for the AGRIS Search Engine, about the use of AGROVOC webservices within the OA community, and useful feedback to prepare future pathways in the CIARD network among other aspects and activities. We tried to maintain a 15 minutes survey and to concentrate our questions essentially on content and how is being disseminated. The survey is going to be published using the surveymonkey website and it is going to be available in English and Spanish. If you can provide any suggestion on who could deal with its translation into French we would thank you a lot!



We would appreciate if you can have a look and forward any comment. Indeed we would like to get the green light from the CIARD CMTF members before initiating the call for participating.



Looking forward to hearing from you very soon.



Thanks a lot,



Imma Subirats

Knowledge and Information Management Officer

KCEW, FAO of the United Nations

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