http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3720 2013-05-21T14:51:04Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3953 Title: Importance of Agricultural Information in the Global Context Authors: Mangstl, Anton Abstract: Dr. Mangstl is a specialist in Information and Knowledge Management as well as Agronomy. Prior to joining FAO in 1996, he was Director of the Centre for Agricultural Documentation and Information (ZADI) Bonn, Germany. Earlier, he was Deputy to the Head of the Working Group on Crop Production and Informatics, Center for Life and Food Sciences in Agriculture, Freising-Weihenstephan (Germany). Dr. Mangstl serves as Director, Library and Documentation Systems Division, General Affairs and Information Department, for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He is the FAO Focal Point for participation in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and related follow-up (C.7 ICT Applications, E-Agriculture). Dr. Mangstl is in charge of the World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT), established by FAO in recognition of the intrinsic value of information in fighting global hunger and achieving food security. Through the WAICENT framework, FAO is able to effectively disseminate the Organization?s vast wealth of information on food and agriculture. The work of Dr. Mangstl?s Division on WAICENT includes capacity building and partnership initiatives which promote best practices in information management, sharing information management systems and tools, e-learning modules for capacity building through the Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) initiative and proactively participating in FAO?s interdepartmental WAICENT Committee. Dr. Mangstl has been involved in the Organization?s latest endeavour to effectively transform FAO into a Knowledge Organization. This transformation allows the Organization to learn from and give a voice to the agricultural community regarding a wide range of issues affecting Food Security and Agricultural Production today. In 2001, Dr. Mangstl was awarded Honorary Professor by the National Agriculture University of Ukraine, Prof. h.c. (UA). Further information: http://www.fao.org/gi/gil/about_en.asp - GIL Divisional Website, http://www.fao.org/rdd/ - Bridging the Rural Digital Divide, http://www.imarkgroup.org/ - IMARK, http://www.fao.org/KnowledgeForum/index_en.htm - Knowledge Forum 2006-12-11T20:31:43Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3952 Title: NDLA Panel Session III: USAIN White Paper & AgNIC Strategic Planning Report Authors: Hutchinson, Barbara; Gardner, Melanie; Poley, Janet Abstract: Session III: Getting Started. The session included a brief presentation on the recommendations developed in the USAIN White Paper, and the AgNIC Executive Board strategic planning session results; followed by a brainstorming session to help get the National Digital Library for Agriculture initiative started. The brainstorming sessions considered topics such as: what is the role of AgNIC; how will the initiative be funded; how can we involve our international partners; who else should be involved; discussion on the objectives and specific strategies. 2006-12-11T19:51:39Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3951 Title: Impact of Globalization on Rural Communities: Social & Economc Impacts Authors: Merrill, Margaret Abstract: Globalization is a hackneyed word and it means different things to different people. For some people globalization is primarily a synonym for global business. Globalization can be viewed as the integration of inputs and outputs into global markets, the sharing of information and knowledge, and the promulgation of rules governing such integration. There are many factors involved in the process of globalization. Transnational corporations are a key factor in the globalization process. The World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank do play a role in the process of globalization. The positive and negative affects of globalization and the groups that resist and support globalization are many. Some of the intense effects of globalization can be seen on rural communities, both in developed and developing countries. Corporate globalization has impacted the rural communities in several ways. These impacts can be categorized into economic, social, political, environmental, and cultural. Of all the rural communities, farmers and rural women are said to be most affected. This panel discussion presents an overview of impacts of globalization on rural communities with special reference to farmers and rural women. 2006-12-11T19:40:49Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3950 Title: Citation patterns in the biological sciences: a comparison of faculty publications and student theses at a research university Authors: Pancheshnikov, Yelena Abstract: Abstract of presentation given at USAIN 2006. 2006-12-11T19:35:53Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3949 Title: Information Sources for Food Studies Research: Food, Culture and Society Authors: Duran, Nancy; MacDonald, Karen Abstract: Food studies is highly interdisciplinary across both science and social science fields. It can include anything pertaining to food and eating from how food is grown to when and how it is eaten to who eats it and with whom and the nutritional quality. Relevant publications are scattered throughout the literature and across academic fields for both current and historical work. In order to truly cover the literature it is necessary to search multiple indexes to the literature. Research in food habits published in the agricultural literature is often as useful as studies of food habits in anthropology or sociology studies. This paper addresses some of the major indexes across disciplines that have citations related to food studies. 2006-12-11T19:32:11Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3948 Title: Agriculture, Environmental Science, and Information Technology Authors: Zazueta, Fedro Abstract: Professor Zazueta is the Director of the Office of Academic Technology (OAT) at University of Florida (UFL), which provides information technology services in support of the academic mission of the University, including teaching, research, extension and outreach. At OAT, Dr. Zazueta has overseen the successful deployment of one of the nation?s largest enterprise level course management systems, a state-wide video transport infrastructure, grid-based high performance computing resources, and institution of a faculty training program focused on technology. Zazueta has taught and developed UFL courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, including web-based courses and distance education courses using multimedia, and helped launch the Agricultural Information Technology Minor. His reach extends to the international level, where he provides agricultural and biological engineering consultation and participates in university exchanges. In the 1990s, Zazueta led the creation of the IFAS Software Support Office, later folded into the IFAS Office of Information Technology, which was instrumental in accelerating the adoption of information technology by agricultural audiences in Florida. Professor Zazueta is currently Chair of the Education Division of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and Chair of the Information and Communication Technologies Technical Section of the International Commission of Agricultural Engineers (CIGR). Zazueta received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering from Colorado State University, and both his M.S. (Water Use and Conservation) and B.S. (Civil Engineering) at the Instituto Tecnol?gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, M?xico. 2006-12-11T19:25:52Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3940 Title: The GlobalAccess2.info Portal: A Flexible Technology For Managing Journal Access Information Authors: Caruso, Brian Abstract: Web-based portals bring together information from many sources and add value to that information by providing a single browsing interface and more consistent display of individual content items. However, designing a portal has typically required developers to pick one or two primary organizing facets at the expense of other valid ones or else face maintenance-intensive cross-referencing between different views of the same information. A new general-purpose portal technology developed at Mann Library offers greater flexibility for coordinating multiple modes of access to information. Developed originally for the VIVO virtual life science library at Cornell (http://vivo.library.cornell.edu), the Vitro portal technology leverages a flexible ontology structure to link related information and deliver multiple facets or views to a top-level interface. Individual records display in a richly cross-linked structure designed to optimize context for the user while highlighting the original resources gathered together in the portal. The new http://globalaccess2.info portal provides a common Web presence for a consortium of international programs than provide free or reduced cost access to scholarly journals for developing countries, including AGORA, eIFL, HINARI, INASP, and TEEAL. Resources are equally discoverable by country, by program, by donor agency, by publisher, and by topic area, meeting the needs of diverse users including librarians in the developing world who are potential program participants, staff at the programs themselves, donor agencies, publishers reviewing availability of their own and other services, and librarians in the developing world who have partners in developing countries. A free-text search facility brings up individual entries along with any relevant donor, publisher, program, or country information, allowing users to navigate via multiple independent paths depending on their needs. Detailed content listings at the individual journal level are maintained on the program?s own Web sites and linked at the page level from the common portal. Over the last 7 months the system that supports both globalaccess2.info and VIVO has been rewritten to promote maintainability and with the hope of releasing the source for use by other institutions. The system is written in Java and runs on the Apache Tomcat servlet container. MySQL is used for back end storage and Lucene is used for full text indexing. 2006-12-11T01:33:33Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3939 Title: Moving to e-Only, Singly and as a Group Authors: Kara, Bill; Stewart, Linda; Cole, Chris Abstract: This proposal is for a panel of three speakers to discuss various aspects and implications for converting to e-only journal access. The panel speakers, Bill Kara (Head, E-Resources & Serials Management at Cornell University), Linda Stewart (Life Sciences Bibliographer, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University) and Chris Cole (Associate Director of Technical Services, National Agricultural Library) discussed ?e-only? from different perspectives. First, Bill Kara discussed the technical services issues, including staffing, ordering, licensing and record keeping for the conversion of a large number journals in the Cornell University Library to e-only subscriptions. Cornell is currently in the second year of a project with a goal to convert 4,000 current journals to e-only access. Linda Stewart then spoke on Mann Library Collection Development?s approach to selecting journals for e-only access, including the criteria for retaining a journal in print and the impact and feedback the Library has received on its project. Chris Cole then looked at the larger issue of increasing e-only for the library community. His work at NAL to identify active print serial titles in agricultural collections, including identifying duplication and the holders of the last or archival copy. With many libraries actively reviewing their collections and the costs both for materials funding and library staffing and space to maintain print along with the electronic versions, this panel explored some of the major issues and concerns as this trend increasingly unfolds at many libraries. 2006-12-11T01:11:57Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3757 Title: Information Remix: the next generation of agricultural information Authors: Ballantyne, Peter; Alvare, Luz Marina Abstract: This panel discussed new developments in long standing international services. The topics included the new AGRIS, initiatives by the CGIAR, and the long range plan for IAALD in the professional community. 2006-11-07T19:51:23Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3756 Title: Implementing the NAL Thesaurus in a Knowledge Repository Authors: Straus, Cynthia; Gardner, Melanie Abstract: Michigan State University (MSU) Extension currently runs an information management program called the Knowledge Repository (KR). In order to make the KR a useful tool, both for MSU and for others, a decision was made to use the NAL Thesaurus (NALT) as the controlled vocabulary in metadata records for the KR. The NALT is a tool specifically designed for use with agricultural-based information systems and is updated each year. Accommodations have been made to update the thesaurus in the KR to refresh the terms. The system also allows uncontrolled vocabulary to assist discovery of information in KR. The combination allows for broader searching. Although the NALT has been implemented in this instance at MSU, another way to consume the NALT is through the NALT Web Services. Presenters will discuss the MSU implementation of the NALT and the NALTws. 2006-11-07T19:41:34Z