OEKCS – Knowledge Standards and Services: what we are doing

Standards, services and tools for dissemination, sharing, archiving and processing of information

•Mulitilingual vocabularies•Open source tools and platforms•Support to IKM projects in member countries•Content Aggregation Services

Partners: Information Centers all over the world. i.e.

•150 AGRIS centers•CGIAR Information Centres•Information Bureaus from Ministries of Agriculture•Agricultural University Faculties

We just identified 31 products and services for 3 Unit Results and try to scale this to a manageable workplan

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Agrovoc – Multilingual Agricultural Concept Scheme

20 Languages

More than 1000 downloads a year

Defacto Standard in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Strong Collaboration with USA National Agricultural Library and CAB International

New version is cutting edge in semantic structure

Collaborative effort with many institutions in member countries

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AGRIS – International Information System for Agricultural Science and Technology

•FAO Program since mid 70s

•Decentralization and Capacity Building Focus since 2000

•Around 90 active centres in the world

•Central data repository with more than 3 million records on Agricultural research publications visits in 2005: 145,000Visits in 2009: 2,000,000

•Unique mechanism for “South-South Knowledge Exchange for Agricultural Innovation”

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Opening Access – Get Research Information to those who need it!

Access to research in a digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright/licensing restrictions

How?• Promoting access and exchange of information and knowledge by the creation, management and maintenance of Full Text Document Repositories

• Current initiatives in Peru, Colombia, Kenya, India and Bangladesh• Internally, the FAO Open Archive

• Adapting tools to the FAO Knowledge Standards within the Open Source Community like DSpace, Fedora Commons and Drupal• Facilitating South-South & North-South collaborations

Preliminary results of the FAO Survey on Use of Technology and Semantics in Open Access in Food, Agriculture, Development, Fisheries, Forestry and Natural Resources (December 2009-January 2010)•62% of them created since 2006•45% use AGROVOC•Nowadays still only 5% of all OA Repositories in the world are related to our field

Preliminary results of the FAO Survey on Use of Technology and Semantics in Open Access in Food, Agriculture, Development, Fisheries, Forestry and Natural Resources (December 2009-January 2010)•62% of them created since 2006•45% use AGROVOC•Nowadays still only 5% of all OA Repositories in the world are related to our field

OA in the world 2009

National Institutes of Health (NIH), Chinese Academy of Sciences,

INRA, ICRISAT among others have adopted an OA Mandate

OEKCS 1008420P-4 Information Systems Officer Keizer, JohannesOEKCS 0028460P-3 Information Systems Officer Vacant (exStergiou)OEKCS 1038800P-3 Information Management Specialist Vacant (exYulong)OEKCS 0520691P-2 Documentation Officer Johannsen, GudrunOEKCS 1052900P-2 IM Officer (Metadata) Anibaldi, Stefano

OEKCS 0826499P-2Knowledge/Information Management Officer Subirats Coll, Imma

OEKCS 1062166P-1Knowledge/Information Management Officer Vacant (exSalokhe)

OEKCS 0027618G-5 Information Systems Clerk Jelinek-Fusco Kristine MariaOEKCS 1008463G-3 Information Management Clerk Folch-Segarra, MariaOEKD PSA Pesce, ValeriaOEKCS PSA Caracciolo, CaterinaOEKCS PSA Morshed, Ahsan OEKCS PSA Klupacs, Erna OEKCS PSA Iniesta, Teresa OEKCS PSA Picarella, Antonella OEKCS PSA Sánchez, Adam AytenOEKCS PSA Rugo, GiampaoloOEKCS PSA Singh, Jeetendra (Kanpur)OEKCS PSA Shresta, Prashanta (Bangkok)OEKCS PSA Rajbhandari, Sachit (Bangkok)OEKCS PSA Dister, Sarah (Utrecht)OEKCS VOL Frizzen, Petter

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