What kind of online tools and resources are available for repository administrators and managers? How can we share knowledge, exchange expertise and build capacities to launch open access repositories and to ensure their long-term sustainability? What kind of professional support can open access repository administrators and managers receive?  The guest ...

Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing Preliminary results of an International Expert Consultation This discussion paper presents preliminary results from an International Expert Electronic Consultation on developing a CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing held online from 4 to 15 April 2011 by Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research ...

Since 2001, FAO organizes the AOS Workshops in collaboration with key stakeholders and information and knowledge managers from agricultural institutions with the objective to invest in better semantic tools; to provide a discussion forum for experts to present results and experiences, and reflect on the state-of-the-art of metadata and semantics; and ...

The Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) led activity of building a framework for data and information sharing and exchange for ARD continues to advance with the recent International Expert Consultation (IEC) held between 20-23 June 2011 and hosted by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (CAAS) and ...

The AGRIS search interface has been improved with a new browsing feature to access to related records from a single record. We hope that with this new feature AGRIS Search Engine will provide better service to users that come from the Google search results. See more examples here.