berlin8 keizer 2010-10-25

Open Access in Agricultural Research for Development – a Global Movement

Dr. Johannes KeizerFood and Agriculture Organization of the UNOffice of Knowledge Exchange Research and ExtensionKnowledge and Capacity for Development

Dr. Johannes Keizer, FAO of the United Nations 22009-10-21

Number and percentage of undernourished persons

2004-2006: 873 million (13%)

2000-2002: 857 million (14%)

1995-1997: 825million (14%)

1990-1992: 845million (16%)

1979-1981 853million (19%)

1969-1971: 878million (24%)

“... FAO’s principle task is to work to ensure that the world’s knowledge of food and agriculture is available to those who need it when they need it and in a form which they can access and use ...”

This Presentation

The CIARD InitiativeCase Studies on Open ArchivesTools Adaptation

dr johannes keizer - FAO of the United Nations - knowledge and capacity for development

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http://www.ciard.net


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Innovation systems in agriculture are critical to the fight against hunger & sustainable use of natural resources

Most public domain agricultural information not yet widely accessible

New types of research, organisations, and collaboration create new demands

Improving the way the partners collaborate requires greater access to, and more effective exchange of, information

Rapid agricultural innovation is knowledge-intensive and depends on access to information

CIARD challenges


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CIARD vision Organizations that create and possess public

agricultural research information, share and disseminate it more widely

CIARD partners will coordinate their efforts, promote common formats, adopt open systems

Create a global network of public collections of information

Coherence in information management will increase efficiency & reduce duplication

“To make agricultural research information and knowledge truly accessible to all”

Open Access to scientific and technical

publications in Agriculture is a key

Issue for CIARD


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http://www.ciard.net/pathways


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AGRIS - network


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AGRIS Network

Data Provider

Service Provider

The Standards & Tools

ProtocolsOAI-PMH,

Z39.50, SRU

KOSManagement

Tools

ExternalServiceProvider



ServiceProviderCIRAD

ServiceProvider

CAAS

Other ServiceProvider

ServiceProviderAGRORED

ServiceProvider

DFID

INIFAP DataProvider

KARI DataProvider

ICCSTI DataProviderPARCC Data

Provider

FAO DataProvider

ICRISAT DataProvider

Other DataProvider

Other DataProvider


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Case studies

• KAINET• openAGRI• GARA• IODE Africa• ThaiAgrisNetwork• Open Acces Survey


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KAINet. Kenya

The Kenya Agricultural Information Network (KAINet) is a national AGRIS project born out of the new AGRIS vision

A three year pilot project funded by DFID, UK (Department for International Development)

Collaborative project with FAO, ASARECA-RAIN, CAB International, and selected 5 national institutions

Objectives

strengthen national and institutional capacities to manage, disseminate and exchange agricultural Information

availability of full text content through the IR development

promote use of standard tools and methodologies

document the process and develop lessons learnt case study


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Agric. Research Institutional Repositories -Status in Kenya

Source: Graph by FAO. Source data from KARI, Kenya. May, 2010.


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Openagri: open acces in India Agricultural research space provided by

agropedia (http://www.agropedia.net)

Has document types like Journal Articles, Conference Papers, Books, Book Chapters, Proceedings, Preprints, Multimedia content

All the content types possess unique application profiles for them.

For each document being uploaded into this repository, a set of appropriate keywords are assigned automatically from Agrotags

Has Url: http://www.agropedia.net/openaccess

http://www.agropedia.net/

http://www.agropedia.net/openaccess


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openagri statistics

• Books: 351• Book Chapters: 29• Journal Articles: 133• Conference Papers: 19• Proceedings: 13• Abstracts: 342• Miscellaneous: 17


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• To strengthen access and paths to accessibility of nationally generated agricultural knowledge

• To build capacity in national systems in Africa to develop the institutional and infrastructural environment necessary for the capture, preservation and accessibility and use of their own national agricultural knowledge

• To complement existing global and national access to research information programmes

• To use GARA as a platform for preservation and disaster recovery, and for the long term protection of knowledge which might again become inaccessible

GARA - a CABI initiative


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• Identified principles, workflows, document selection criteria, and permissions

• Agreed non-destructive digitization to ensure preservation of original copy, which could now be the only copy

• ..upto now

• 520 full text article from Malawi

• 550 full text articles from Pakistan

• 680 full text articles from Philippines

• 157 full text articles from IAALD Conference

Pilot in Malawi, Pakistan and Phillippines


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• Limited internet capacity in Africa:o At the end of 2003, 64 kbps was a good connection

• Choose of Dspaceo Community/collection structureo Customization possibilities

• Training:

o Local coordinators (16 information managers)o Appointment of 2 DSpace administrators:

• Implementation at institute level:= work of the information managers of OdinAfrica

OdinAfrica


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• 31 Institutions in Africa and Latin America - ~3200 documents http://www.oceandocs.net

• IBSS(Sevastopol – Ukraine): http://repository.ibss.org.ua/dspace/ - 1418 docs

o NIO (Goa-India): http://drs.nio.org/ - On DSpace - 3628 docs

o ODINPimris (http://pimrisregional.library.usp.ac.fj/ ) – On Greenstone – 123 docs

http://www.oceandocs.net/

http://repository.ibss.org.ua/dspace/

http://drs.nio.org/

http://pimrisregional.library.usp.ac.fj/


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Thai AGRIS network (1)


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Thai AGRIS network (3)

o 120,000 bibliographical recordso 2 million full text pageso Thai Agricultural knowledge from

1980 to present


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Survey on Open Archives

Data collection: 150 Institutions approached 82 repositories compiled surveys

Type of Institution: Majority universities, minority governmental, international and Nongovernmental org

• 1993 – 2000: 1/2 repositories a year• 2001≥ substantial increase of growth • ↕• promotion of OA


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Software

A I M S


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Comparing with other repositories

Adaptation of Tools


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- Weak metadata management in DSpace

- No use of controlled vocabularies- Not directed to produce linked data- Tools

- AgriOcean Dspace- AgriDrupal- AgroTagger

Better tools for OA are needed


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• Custom metadata schemas• A schema for representation of AGRIS AP metadata

elements

• Enriched metadata input • Custom input types for language qualification of selected

AGRIS AP metadata elements • Annotation using multilingual thesauri

• Enriched metadata dissemination• A Crosswalk plugin for OAI-PMH dissemination of metadata

in AGRIS AP format• Mapping of AGRIS AP elements to DC for vanilla DC

dissemination of AGRIS AP metadata

AgriOceanDSPACE


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• AgriOcean Dspace release: 09/2010• Setting up of AgriOcean Dspace Community

on AIMS: 09-10/2010• exchange of experiences

• Pilot Testing: “Bangladesh Agricultural Universities’ Institutional Repository”

• Cooperation with DURASPACE• Informing about the new AgriOcean Dspace implementations

• Collaborating in the Dspace Ambassadors Program

AgriOceanDSPACE


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• Drupal is a popular OS tool to manage communities, repositories, websites, intranets

• A group of agricultural organizations have agreed to develop an “AgriDrupal” initiative:

• to implement common data models, agricultural vocabularies, and data exchange standards in Drupal modules

• to make these customizations available globally

• to create a global community that shares experiences, good practices and code

• Partners: FAO, GFAR, CGIAR, Cornell University, Rangeland West initiative, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Condesan, etc.

Drupal


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Authority control: subject: Agrovoc

>> click <<

Drupal data entry Agrovoc web services client popup

Drupal search interface


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• Automatic Semantic Mark Up of Agricultural publications

• Webservices

• Plug Ins for Drupal, Dspace and ePrints

http://agropedialabs.iitk.ac.in/Tagger/Agrotagger_text.php


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Thank You!

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