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The CIARD RING “a Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING) that share information related to agricultural research and innovation for development (ARD)” ARD information now Agriculture-related information on the Internet is limited, widely scattered and not organized for easy access Complex information needs for agricultural research, innovation and development cannot be met Availability is just not enough! Users have to locate and search several sources that provide partial answers to complex questions Solution: value added services Value added information services that enable to search, collate and integrate information from various sources  acting as gateways to information sources Solution: value added services What is missing Value added services cannot be built without awareness of what others have done: which sources are available how to tap into them how to exploit their semantics The RING: supporting value added services The CIARD RING provides the missing routemap to the existing services an orientating service an infrastructure for interoperability of agricultural research information services The CIARD RING service The CIARD RING is a registry of existing ARD information services the featured services are categorized and interlinked according to criteria based on: standards used, vocabulary used, technology used, protocols used, level of interoperability etc.  detailed instructions on how to interoperate the featured services are provided Submission flow The services featured in the RING are submitted directly by their managers and technical staff Anybody can register and submit a service; the organizations responsible for the service will be alerted upon submission  If they are not already CIARD partners, the organizations that own and manage the submitted services will be invited to become CIARD partners Who can benefit from the RING? users looking for existing services into which they can tap for retrieving information and feedi