Why should an organization be part of this community?

The Coherence in Agricultural Information Systems initiative will bring together information on methodologies, standards, and applications. The specific goals of the initiative are:

• to establish a network of partners who adhere and agree to its primary goal to provide unified and free access to information management approaches and tools,
• to bring together information about currently available standards (such as thesauri, classification schemes, metadata sets, ontologies, controlled vocabularies) used in the management of agricultural information,
• to encourage the re-use of these standards to facilitate interoperability between information systems,
• to increase awareness of the resources made available through this web site,
• to promote sharing of best practices, and
• to provide channels for communication between different actors within the community.

The scope and eventual sustainability of the Coherence initiative will be determined by the level of cooperation received from the participating network of partners.

For the complete proposal, click here.

Write to us at: FAO-Agris-Caris@fao.org.