GFAR document repository

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The GFAR document repository is a database of GFAR publications with access to the full-text digital document.
The repository is the result of collaboration between the Global Forum’s Secretariat and FAO’s Library and Documentation Systems Division (WAICENT), who kindly provided a customized version of their Electronic Information Management System (EIMS). It is database driven and it interfaces with the web through XML.
The main functionalities of the system are:

  • Documents can be published and made visible on the web world wide
  • Metadata records are managed in the system following information management standards (i.e. AGRIS AP metadata model) and terminology standards (i.e. AGROVOC)
  • Electronic documents are saved and preserved in a file server
  • The search can be customized according to different needs and can be performed using a RESTful web service.
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URL: 
http://www.egfar.org/information-gateway/publicati...
Started in: 
2006
Owner: 
Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)
Contact email: 
gfar-secretariat@fao.org
Geographic coverage: 
Global
Region (location): 
Europe
Thematic coverage
Domain(s): 
Other subject(s): 
Percentage of records about agricultural topics: 
More than 75%
Type of information managed: 
语言: 
English
Audience: 
Donors
Audience: 
Managers
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Access / licensing / pricing: 
Percentage of full text documents: 
100%
Number of records: 
1,230
Standards & technologies
This section provides information on the technologies used and the standards with which the service is compliant, with indication of the metadata sets, formats and protocols adopted for input in the system and those adopted for output.

Software: 
Software: 
KOS adopted: 
AGROVOC Multilingual agricultural thesaurus (AGROVOC)
KOS adopted: 
GFAR Categories
Output metadata set(s): 
Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES)
Output metadata set(s): 
AGRIS Application Profile (AGRIS AP)
Output metadata set(s): 
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCES)
Output metadata set(s): 
RSS core metadata set (RSS)
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Output protocols / architectures: 
Instructions
This section provides detailed instructions on how the service can be interoperated, e.g. the URLs, the parameters, the output format etc.

Instructions for getting information from this service: 

The search can be performed using our search engine interface at http://www.egfar.org/information-gateway/publications-area/search-publications.

Besides, the GFAR repository supports XML exports compliant to both Dublin Core - the default metadata set for the FAO Electronic Information Management System (EIMS) - and the AGRIS AP format. Thanks to the AGRIS AP export, GFAR is now an AGRIS Center and contributes its records to the AGRIS search engine. 
Records in the AGRIS AP format are exported on request. 

The subject vocabulary adopted is the GFAR taxonomy, which has been mapped to Agrovoc for better interoperability.

Feeds from the repository: info for webmasters

An RSS feed of the latest 50 documents uploaded to the repository is available at:
http://www.egfar.org/rss/documents
If you want to retrieve all of the publications, you can do it in batches of 50 by adding ?page=n to the RSS URL, n being the page number.
So for instance if you want the last-but-one batch of 50 documents type:
http://www.egfar.org/rss/documents?page=2

Dynamic XML exports: info for webmasters  

Please use this feature with caution. Harvesting dynamic feeds at short intervals could overload the FAO server where the service is located.
You can get an XML file of filtered results by calling this URL (a service provided by the FAO EIMS software) and passing one or more of the parameters below:
http://www.fao.org/eims/secretariat/gfar/eims_search/advanced_s_result.asp?xml=Y&

Parameters:
- QueryString (searches the title, abstract and author fields: for the moment, only a one-word search is accepted)
- Title (for the moment, only a one-word search is accepted)
- Pub_year (publication year)
- recordsperpage (the number of records you want to retrieve: it's recommended not to ask for more than 50 records at a time)
- Pub_id (only if you know the ID in the repository: it is useful if you want to retrieve a single record)

The sort order is by publishing year/submission date, descending.
 

Instructions for inputting information in this service: 

The repository only collects documents from GFAR. The workflow and the metadata element set adopted to describe the digital documents are managed through the FAO Electronic Information Management System (EIMS) tool for managing. This custom EIMS module also has support for both the AGROVOC Thesaurus and the GFAR taxonomy used to describe the content of the publications.

No import from other sources is foreseen.

Example(s): 

A good example of an XML export filtered by the presence of the word "inclusiveness":
http://www.fao.org/eims/secretariat/gfar/eims_search/advanced_s_result.asp?xml=Y&QueryString=inclusiveness&recordsperpage=50

Services that re-use information from this service: 
AGRIS search engine