Archive for Architecture

Proposed Architecture and Workflow for Managing Decentralized Information on Organizations Using a Central Registry File

April 5, 2007 at 11:59 am · Filed under Architecture, Organization Metadata, Organization information management

During our last meeting in Wageningen, the issue was raised of what the overall workflow should be in managing information on organizations in a decentralized way in order to avoid the proliferation of databases and the problem of duplication, and a distributed architecture with a central Registry File was proposed in order to manage information on organizations uniformly on a global scale. GFAR has been asked to follow up with a project proposal in collaboration with FAO and other members of the Content Management Task force.

The proposed architecture is available for comments here.

All the members of the Taskforce are welcome to give their feedback on the blog, on the wiki or on DGroup. Also, if you want to add comments or make corrections on the document itself, we published an editable web version on the EGFAR website here. Feel free to add your comments (preferably in a different color and with your name in brackets).

If you like, I can also post the full-text version here on the blog, but I am not sure if this is good practice.

Thank you,

Valeria Pesce
Global Forum on Agricultural Research

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Towards an architecture for open archive networks in Agricultural Sciences and Technology

March 20, 2007 at 8:54 am · Filed under AGRIS AP, Architecture, COPIED TO NEW WIKI, OAI, Open access

The AGRIS Network is an international initiative based on a collaborative network of institutions, whose aim is to build a common and freely accessible information system for science and technology in agriculture and related subjects. The paper illustrates how the Open Access (OA) and the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) models can be used within the AGRIS Network as a means of solving the problems of information dissemination and exchange of agricultural research outputs. The AGRIS OA model promotes the availability of online content, such as that of grey literature which is not available through commercial distribution channels but significantly contributes to agricultural research and development. The lack of adequate information exchange possibilities between researchers in agricultural sciences and technology represents a significant weakness limiting the ability of researches to properly help address the issues of agricultural development. The OA model also promotes disseminating international, national and regional research output in a way that is highly visible thus removing the restrictions placed by the traditional scientific diffusion arising from print media. This paper presents the possibility to address the accessibility, availability and interoperability issues of exchanging agricultural research output. The paper also presents the needs for standards such as AGRIS Application Profile (AGRIS AP), an exchange standard and controlled vocabularies or subject-specific Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) as means of assuring quality of the shared information.

Read the full paper:

  • [English]
  • [Chinese] <- Thank you to Zhong Wang for the translation!
  • [French] <- Thank you to Koda for the translation!
  • [Spanish] < Thank you to Franz Martin for the translation!

Your comments, feedback and suggestions are most appreciated.

Gauri Salokhe, FAO.

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