Regional Training Workshop

Building National Capacities in Information and Knowledge In Support of Agricultural Research for Development in Near East Region

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17 May 2009
09:00 09:30 Registration
09:30 10:00 Opening Ceremony and Participant Introductions
10:00 11:00
Session1: Introduction to the Coherence agenda
Format: Plenary (15 minutes)
- Presentation of key aspects of CIARD initiative in relation to NAIS model
Format: Working Groups (45 minutes)
- CIARD Manifesto and Principles: discussion of key concepts and identification of concerns/suggestions
11:00 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 13:00
Session2: Introduction to the CIARD Checklist
Format: Working groups
- Analysis of CIARD Checklist
- Reports from working groups and discussion of findings
13:00 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 15:15
Session 3: Practical Pathways to coherent agricultural information systems
Format: in plenary
- Introduction to CIARD Pathways
- Presentations on (i) AGRIS database, (ii) interoperability - the CIARD “Web Ring” and (iii) global directories (AgriFeeds, AgriOrg, AgriProjects)
- Discussion
15:15 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 16:30
Session 4: NERAKIN for NAIS
Format: Plenary Presentation and Discussion
- Presentation on: (i) Potential contribution of NERAKIN to NAIS model, (ii) Use of NERAKIN at Institute level, (iii) Benchmarking of NERAKIN against CIARD Checklist
- Discussion
16:30 17:00 Session 5: Brief Review of Report of 2008 Workshop, Oman and Wrap-Up
18 May 2009
09:00 10:30 Reports from NIFUs on the status/ progress of development of NAIS – incorporating follow up actions from 2008 workshop in Oman.
10:30 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 12:30 Country reports on the status/ progress of development of NAIS (cont.).
12:30 13:00 Overview of NAIS Users Management System and Workflow Management System
13:00 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 15:00 Hands-on training on NAIS Interface and Content Management System for “Document Repository” module: acquisition of data and metadata data related to the Institution structure and work on the data entry screen, queries and reports of this module importing from and exporting to other systems
15:00 16:00 Hands-on training on NAIS Interface and Content Management System of “Institutions” module: acquisition of data and metadata data related to the Institution structure and work on the data entry screen, queries and reports of this module.
16:00 17:00 Hands-on training on NAIS Interface and Content Management System of “Researchers” module: acquisition of data and metadata data related to the projects in research and any other scientific disciplines and work on the data entry screen, queries and reports of this module.
19 May 2009
09:00 10:00 Hands-on training on NAIS Interface and Content Management System for “News” module, “Events” module, “Country Reports” module, “Good Practices” module and other modules: acquisition of data and metadata data related to four relevant modules of NAIS and work on the data entry screen, queries and reports of these modules.
10:00 10:15
Coffee Break
10:15 13:00 Training in-depth on documents/publications Workflow Management System.
13:00 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 15:30 Introduction: What is an application profile - Advantages and Essential Definitions. AGRIS Application Profile: Goals, Objectives and Methodology. Elements in AGRIS Application Profile: Titles, Creators, Publishers, Subjects, identifiers, Formats and availability in addition to issues concerning AGRIS: Bibliographic levels.
15:30 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 17:00 Hands-on training on Arabic AGRIS Application Profile (AP) for indexing and cataloguing. Insertion of appropriate metadata for ten publications by/from each participants/trainees.
20 May 2009
08:00 9:30 Issues concerning AGRIS: Bibliographic data, management of legacy data/content (e.g. AGRIN formats), the new system (AGRIS Application Profile), Diacritics, Transliterations
9:30 10:30 Hands-on training on NERAKIN installation and maintenance at national / institution level
10:30 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 11.30 Wrap-up of the workshop with evaluation, conclusion and recommendations for future workshop.
11.30 12.30 AARINENA RAIS ICT Session:
Five ICT- Sub-regional Presentations
12.30 13.15 Election of new ICT-SC Chair
13.15 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 16:00 Visit to Smart Village and other visits to IM institutes/centers.
 

FAO 2009.