Open Site: Building and enhancing ARD websites
SECTION: Building and enhancing ARD websites
In this section you can:
1) share your experience and help others to build or enhance their websites; 2) describe tools and services that may be used in building websites; 3) ask questions; 4) just read and use this information for building or enhancing yoour website.
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Articles (sorted from last created):
Useful book: the Preservation of Web Resources
One of the goals of PoWR is to make current trends in digital preservation meaningful and relevant to information professionals with the day-to-day responsibility for looking after web resources.
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Using AgriFeeds to share news and events information
In this short article we would like to suggest some practical examples and scenarios that show how information systems and the Regional Forums in particular can benefit from AgriFeeds (www.agrifeeds.org).
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SIST: Scientific and technical information system
A Content Management System extended with components that allow to query different types of information sources from one access point.
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Other CMSs: OpenCMS, Typo3...
Besides Infoglue, the CMS that we use for EGFAR, and Drupal, which is very well known for its ease of use, here are some links to other good CMSs like OpenCMS and Typo3.
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Drupal
The strong point of Drupal is the ease with which you can create categories / taxonomies and link the navigation (or part of it) to them.
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InfoGlue
InfoGlue is the CMS that EGFAR uses. The strong points of InfoGlue are its reliability, its very good Model-View-Controller (MVC) model implementation, its in-built support for categorisation, its ability to create infinite content types, the very granular management of users and permissions and the powerful API.
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Proposed Architecture and Workflow for Managing Decentralized Information on Organizations Using a Central Registry File
During the last Content Management Taskforce meeting in Wageningen (March 2007), 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.
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Proposed Application Profile for describing Organizations
FAO, GFAR and Wageningen International have proposed an Application Profile (a metadata format) for describing Organizations. The AP is available from the FAO AIMS website for comments.
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"MIS": coherently managing information on organizations, projects and experts
Management Information Systems (MIS) provide information on objects related to the management of activities and projects in ARD: organizations, experts, projects and project outputs.
In correlating these types of information in a comprehensive and structured information service coherence and coordination are essential.
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Standards in Agricultural Information
Some standards already exist for facilitating information exchange and service interoperability in the agricultural field.
The Agricultural Information Management Standards website managed by FAO aims at coordinating and harmonizing "the decentralized efforts currently taking place in the development of methodologies, standards and applications for management of agricultural information systems".
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