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CIARD RING

Submitted by GFAR on Wed, 02/03/2011 - 14:35


Description

The CIARD Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING) is a project implemented within CIARD and is facilitated by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR).
The RING is a global registry of web-based services that give access to any kind of information pertaining to agricultural research for development (ARD). It is the principal tool created through the CIARD initiative to allow information providers to register their services in various categories and so facilitate the discovery of sources of agriculture-related information across the world. The RING aims to provide an infrastructure to improve the accessibility of the outputs of agricultural research and of information relevant to ARD management.
 Enabler
Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)
Website: 
http://ring.ciard.net
Contact email: 
ring-helpdesk@ciard.net
Name of contact person: 
Valeria Pesce
Pathway(s) enabled
How the pathway is enabled: 
The RING can help Institutions identify international collections and databases through which they can disseminate their research outputs. Among the services registered in the RING are bibliographic databases, international search engines, online journals etc., and information on these services include instructions on how contents can be submitted to them and technical details on the formats and protocols used.
Making a website's content visible on the Web
How the pathway is enabled: 

By submitting information about their services to the RING, service providers make their websites more visible and help draw visitors to them. Besides, the RING can help Institutions identify aggregators (like feed aggregators) or specific search engines for repositories or thematic Google Custom Search Engines (CSE) in which they may want their contents to be featured.

How the pathway is enabled: 

Added value services cannot be built without an awareness of: which sources / platforms are available, how to tap into them, how to exploit their semantics. The RING provides exactly this type of information on existing platforms and can therefore enormously facilitate the building of added value services that query across them.

Using Web 2.0 solutions for your Website
How the pathway is enabled: 

Among the services registered in the RING are many Web 2.0-enabled sources of information that can be easily re-used in other websites: for each service, technical information on formats and vocabularies used is provided, plus instructions and examples of how they can be leveraged. In addition, a section features Tutorials (http://ring.ciard.net/tutorials) on Web 2.0 technologies that are used by the services registered in the RING.