AGRICOLA IND 92047817; presented at IAALD Symposium on "Advances in Information Technology", September, 1991, Beltsville, MD, Since 1985 the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research has been involved in the production of a collection of its research reports on CD-ROM. This has involved the conversion of thousands of documents to machine-readable text and scanned images. This paper briefly outlines the history of the project from its inception to current status. Particular attention is paid to key factors that have impacted the design and production of the collection, with special emphasis on the ways in which this information can be put to use by those contemplating similar conversions. (original)
Viera-Gallo, Jose Antonio (author / Member, International Documentation and Communication Center (IDOC), Rome, Italy) and Member, International Documentation and Communication Center (IDOC), Rome, Italy
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Journal article
Publication Date:
1982-09
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International
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: C04356
Haendler, Harald (author), Laux, Wolfrudolf (author), and Haendler: Dokumentationsstelle der Universitat Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany; Laux: Dokumentationsstelle fur Phytomedizin der Biologischen, Bundesanstalt fur Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Berlin (West), Germany
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Journal article
Language:
English with French / German / Spanish summary
Publication Date:
1986
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Netherlands: Wageningen, Netherlands : The Association.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05266
Evans, James F. (author), Prabha, Chandra (author), and Prabha: Graduate research assistant in agricultural communication, University of Illinois; Evans: Professor of Agricultural Communications, University of Illinois
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Journal article
Publication Date:
1982-10
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USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04451
Pan, Shu-Chun (author), Wang, Xian-Fu (author), and Chinese Academy of agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.; Chinese Academy of agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
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Journal article
Language:
English with French / Spanish summary
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05203
This paper describes the present status and development of the Chinese agricultural documentation and information systems and the core role of the National AGRIS Center played in promoting the development of the systems. The emphasis has been placed in coordinating and establishing the agricultural databases, computer searching systems, information transmitting systems and international cooperations in China. It points out that the common strategic task facing all the developing countries in the establishment of national agricultural databases in each country and selectively contribute the valuable data to the international agricultural databases for information resources sharing of the world. Digitizing of Chinese characters for establishing the Chinese agricultural databases, the techniques of development and use in dealing the Chinese charactes as well as the technical line adopted for the construction of the Chinses agricultural databases have been also disucssed.
14 pages., via online journal., The preservation, management, and sharing of indigenous knowledge is crucial for social
and economic development in rural Africa. The high rate of illiteracy (print-based) in
rural Africa and the exclusion of indigenous knowledge from Western education add to
the information gap experienced in rural Africa. Other challenges facing oral cultures are
the disappearance of traditional knowledge and skills due to memory loss or death of
elders and the deliberate or inadvertent destruction of indigenous knowledge. The
rapidly increasing use of social media and mobile technologies creates opportunities to
form local and international partnerships that can facilitate the process of creating,
managing, preserving, and sharing of knowledge and skills that are unique to
communities in Africa. This article proposes the use of social media and mobile
technologies (cell phones) in the creation, preservation, and dissemination of indigenous
knowledge and discusses the role of libraries in the integration of social media
technologies with older media that employ audio and audiovisual equipment to reach a
wider audience.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C12879
Notes:
Papers presented at the 12th Annual Convention and Conference of the Society for Information Science, Hyderabad, India, January 28-30, 1993., Chapter 1 in P.C. Bose and H.C. Jain (eds.), Information management for rural development. Shipra Publications, Delhi, India. 159 p.