A Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING)
for Agricultural Research for Development (ARD)

The CIARD RING is a registry of information sources/services in agriculture.
It allows information providers to register their services in various categories and so facilitate the discovery of sources of agriculture-related information across the world.

An information source is any form of making information available in a structured way: examples are search engines, databases, repositories, Open Archives, RSS feeds, XML and RDF stores...

The services registered in the RING are described in details and categorized according to criteria that are relevant to the use of the service and its interoperability (such as standards adopted, vocabulary used, technology used, protocols implemented, level of interoperability etc.). In addition, the RING features detailed instructions on how the registered services can be "interoperated".
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All providers of ARD information services
are invited to register their services on this portal
[see how]