Presented at the IAALD 13th Congress held in Montpellier, France, 26-29 April 2010. Abstract: "Creating integrated information services in agriculture giving access and adding value to information residing in distributed sources remains a major challenge. In distributed architectures, value added services by definition interface several information sources / services. Therefore value added services cannot be built without an awareness of what others have done: which sources are available, how to tap into them, how to exploit their semantics. The Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING) is a portal offering an interlinked registry of existing information services in agriculture..." The CIARD RING is available at: http://ring.ciard.net

1. The CIARD RING an infrastructure for interoperability of agricultural research information services Valeria Pesce (GFAR), Ajit Maru (GFAR), Johannes Keizer (FAO)

5. Solution: value added services CARIS / WISARD Users We need to know if a certain technology has been used in a specific country and in a dryland area for a specific crop and if there are related projects currently ongoing and where we can find the project outputs? TECA Best practices Country profiles AGRIS Country NARS ICARDA AiDA Crop database Geo-ontology Crop ontology Organizations Directory Agrovoc Any repository gateway Any OPAC gateway gateway gateway Maize