Highlights from the CIARD CMTF face-to-face meeting in Addis

The CIARD Content Management Task Force met in Addis Ababa from 25 to 27 March 2009 in order to achieve a consolidated work program (what, who, when) for the Task Force till the next plenary CIARD meeting and to discuss the CIARD Checklist and the CIARD Pathways.

The discussion on the Checklist was very productive and the TF was even able to re-write it collectively.

 

The main points on which the TF agreed were:

Too many things at the Share Fair… no time for blogging!

Just a quick blog post to say that I intended to blog in real time about at least a couple of sessions at the Share Fair but there were too many interesting sessions and too many people to talk to, even at coffee, lunch and dinner time… really no time for blogging. Not that I am a good blogger anyway, I usually blog every two months, which probably can’t be even called blogging. But this time I really wanted to. 

A presentation on Agricultural Learning Resources at the 9th AOS workshop at the IAALD-AFITA-WCCA conference

During the 9th Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) workshop, held on Aug. 26th 2008 during the IAALD-AFITA-WCCA Conference, Gauri Salokhe (FAO) presented the work that FAO, in strict collaboration with the Agricultural University of Athens, is conducting on the management of learning resources. After a first phase in which a survey was made of all the existing metadata sets describing learning resources, a Task Force was created to involve partners in activities and discussions that will hopefully bring to the adoption of a common approach in exchanging information on learning resources.

IAALD-AFITA-WCCA Conference – Session on New Development in Information Systems to Access Agricultural Research Outputs

This session featured presentations on tools for accessing agricultural research and on approaches used by organizations disseminating scientific research and knowledge.

I found the session very interesting, not much because I was presenting a project myself, but rather because other projects and approaches presented there had features that were very much in line with the approach that is behind the Web Ring “framework” that we, as GFAR and as members of the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development initiative (CIARD), were presenting.

Opening Ceremony of the IAALD-AFITA-WCCA Conference in Atsugi, Tokyo.

Today it was the opening day of the World Conference on Agricultural Information and Information Technology, a joint congress of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialist (IAALD), the Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA) and the World Congress of Computers in Agriculture (WCCA). See the conference website.