Register of CIARD CMTF activities
Pathway | Functional group | ‘User’ | Responsibility writeshop | # in original CMTF list | Responsibility in the Addis CMTF workplan |
A | General – aimed at Senior Managers and Directors | ||||
0 | Introduction | All | PE | ||
1 | Advocate the benefits of the digital accessibility of content | All | PE | ||
2 | Work with publishers who have flexible policies on open access | R, I | PE | ||
3 | Develop an institutional rights policy and guidelines for Open Access | M, I | PE | ||
4 | Make content available through global services like AGORA, TEEAL, OARE and Google Books | M, R, I | PE | ||
B | Repository – collection, capture and curation of outputs | ||||
0 | Introduction | All | PE | ||
5 | Put in place institutional policies that enable the sustainable development of a repository | M, I | HB/PE | ||
6 | Building an institutional or thematic repository | I | HB | 3 / 4 ; | Responsibilities for 2 and 3 : HB will set up structure for the case studies NARIMs (AR) , IIAP (VM), Cornell,USA (JF), FAO (JK),Wageningen UR (HB), Thai Agris Center (AT) Elis (IS), HB will contact organic eprints |
7 | Digitize older outputs, to be 'born again' digital | I | JC/PE | ||
8 | Broken links | I | HB | RK HB | |
9 | Issues of preservation of documents and data | I | n/a | 30 | SA VM HB |
10 | Standards – GIS and BIO INFORM | M, I | HB/PE | ||
C | Web Presence – making content as widely accessible as possible | ||||
0 | Introduction | All | PE | ||
11 | Making your repository accessible: (Registration of repositories, Sitemaps, RSS Feeds) | I | CA/HB | 8 | JF (VP?) |
12 | Optimize the content and structure of your website for search | I | CA/HB | 17 | CA |
13 | Using Web 2.0 solutions for your Website. Why, how and which? | R, C | MA | 19 | SA JF |
14 | Beyond articles and reports: try out 'social' media | R, C | MA | ||
15 | Beyond articles and reports: video | R, C | MA | ||
16 | Publish and promote outputs with newsfeeds | R, C | CA/HB | 24 | VP |
17 | Analyse how your IR/websites are being used. Put this knowledge to use | I, C | MA/MG | 27 | CA? |
18 | Set up added value services that query across platforms | I | CA/HB | ||
19 | Getting your outputs out – AGRIS, CABI, Google Scholar | M, I, C | HB/JK | ||
Phase 2 | |||||
1 | Make content accessible across web, email, phone, and radio | ||||
2 | Repackage research outputs to make them more 'usable' by other stakeholders | TE | |||
3 | Communicate research messages to the mainstream and specialist media and other 'users' | JC | |||
4 | Communicate research messages for web, email, and phone | ||||
5 | Engage with partners to enhance communication with other stakeholder groups | TE |
A number of ‘ pathways proposed by the CMTF have been identified by the writing team as “issues” , pieces to which one or more pathways can refer for clarification. (The renumbering in the first column are my proposal (and therefore in italics)) HB | |||||
Pathway | Functional group | ‘User’ | Responsibility writeshop | # in original CMTF list | Responsibility in the Addis CMTF workplan |
I | Issues | ||||
1 | Tools to manage institutional Repositories [new] | 6 | IS | ||
2 | Tools to manage bibliographical data | 7 | JK | ||
3 | Metadata standards and Vocabularies, what is the business case? | 11 | VP | ||
4 | Using Agricultural Thesauri | 12 | HB | ||
5 | The AGRIS AP for DLIOS, how to use it | 13 | JK | ||
6 | Namespaces and Application Profile: for what are they good? | 16 | JK |
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Below you find a the “non-pathway-related” activities that we proposed at pour Addis meeting | |||||
Area of intervention: Services | |||||
Background paper: Collaboration, Coherence, Diversity and Competition: Issues and principles for the setup of Agricultural Information Services. | HB | ||||
A paper describing the architecture of the CIARD Webring and listing the existing services and their interactions. | VP | ||||
Prototype Webring implementation with first registries | JF, VP | ||||
Area of intervention: Open Access | |||||
Creation of a Directory of Agricultural Open Archives within the CIARD community | VP, VM, JF | ||||
Area of intervention: Tools | |||||
Designing a basic directory structure, in which CIARD partners can describe and document tools | VP | ||||
Preparation of a special session at Montpellier meeting about possible software architectures and choices of tools | |||||