In this paper, we describe the idea and preliminary survey of an Integrated Information Access System (IIAS) that accepts diverse kinds of questions and provides the requested information in the most suitable format for the information need. We designed a set of 18 Information Access Types — categories defined by the form of the output and the semantics of some of the output types. Also, we wil...

Poor access to agricultural market information is a major factor constraining the performance of agricultural markets in developing countries. The search for new strategies for resolving this constraint has led to several ICT-based market information service (MIS) projects in developing countries. At the same time, the rapid penetration of new generation ICT tools (especially mobile phones) has...

Sustainable agricultural and rural development requires knowledge and information, skills, attitudes and technologies, which run through a network of actors to produce, distribute and use it in a particular place. The model of the Agriculture Knowledge and Information Systems (AKIS) is designed based on this recognition. In Iran, There are about decades of experience in the development of this ...

The Livestock Library (http://www.livestocklibrary.com.au/) was the dream of the Australian Sheep Industry Cooperative Research Centre and the Cooperative Research Centre for Beef Genetic Technologies. Their dream was to develop a free to use website that provided access to information of value to all participants in Australia‘s livestock industries – producers, students, extension officers, re...

Opportunities to use data and information to address challenges Background: in international agricultural research and development are expanding rapidly. The use of agricultural trial and evaluation data has enormous potential to improve crops and management practices. However, for a number of reasons, this potential has yet to be realized. This paper reports on the experience of the initiative...

Background: Opportunities to use data and information to address challenges in international agricultural research and development are expanding rapidly. The use of agricultural trial and evaluation data has enormous potential to improve crops and management practices. However, for a number of reasons, this potential has yet to be realized. This paper reports on the experience of the AgTrials i...

Agriculture is a highly dynamic process in space and time, with many applications requiring data with both a relatively high temporal resolution (at least every 8 days) and fine-to-moderate (FTM < 100 m) spatial resolution. The relatively infrequent revisit of FTM optical satellite observatories coupled with the impacts of cloud occultation have translated into a barrier for the derivation of a...