GARDIAN

Global Agricultural Research Data Innovation & Acceleration Network

An integrated search tool for datasets and publications within the CGIAR system.

Year announced
:2017
Year launched
:2018
GARDIAN homepage
Home institute(s)
: CGIAR Big Data Platform
Funders
: CGIAR Big Data Platform
Project history
:
    GARDIAN was created by the Big Data Platform as a key pillar in assisting CGIAR centres to comply with the CGIAR’s Open Access and Data Management (OADM) Policy (2013). The system, initially named CeRes (CGIAR e-Research), was developed to improve the openness of CGIAR research outputs, through its search capacity, and to monitor the extent to which outputs are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) through a set of specially-designed metrics. It is part of a suite of technologies and standards being developed to standardise data collection and dissemination across the CGIAR network.
Partners (past & present)
: SCiO Systems, AgroKnow, Ontocale
Functionality
: Metadata harvester and aggregator, Search tool
Domain
: Agronomy, Genomics, Phenotyping, Plant Breeding, Socioeconomics
Data type(s)
: Metadata (publications), Metadata (datasets)
Research papers
: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/83168
Documentation
: https://gardian.bigdata.cgiar.org/metrics.php#!/
Software used
: Globus
Standards used
: CG Core, GARDIAN FAIR Metrics
Current interoperability
: COPO
Planned interoperability
: CGIAR VIVO
What is open?
Provides links to open datasets and publications, Some software on github
Intellectual property (IP)
: Licensing status is recorded for publications and datasets.
System update procedures
: Managed by a core team
Curation type
: Manual
User training options
: Webinars
Data system type
: Metadata index and search tool for datasets and publications within the CGIAR system
Current users
: breeders, crop researchers, industry, nutritionists