Open Access in Agricultural Research for Development : a Global Movement

Open Access in Agricultural Research for Development – a Global Movement

Dr. Johannes Keizer

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

Office of Knowledge Exchange Research and Extension

Knowledge and Capacity for Development

2009-10-21 Dr. Johannes Keizer, FAO of the United Nations 2

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 Initiative

Case Studies on Open Archives

Tools Adaptation

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

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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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5AGRIS - network


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AGRIS Network

Data Provider

Service Provider

The Standards & Tools

Protocols

OAI-PMH,

Z39.50, SRU

Data E

xchange

Standard

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AGRIS W

ebsite

KOSManagement

Tools

External

Service

Provider

External

Service

Provider

External

Service

Provider

Service

Provider

CIRAD

Service

Provider

CAAS

Other Service

Provider

Service

Provider

AGRORED

Service

Provider

DFID

INIFAP Data

Provider

KARI Data

Provider

ICCSTI Data

ProviderPARCC Data

Provider

FAO Data

ProviderICRISAT Data

Provider

Other Data

Provider

Other Data

Provider


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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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5Agric. 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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5openagri 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 Dspace

o Community/collection structure

o 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)


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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 Drupalmodules

• 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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