Livia Olsen
In 2011, a university library began a collaborative project with a faculty member in the Agronomy Department whose research focus is carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. This interest led to his involvement in an alliance of researchers and policy makers in 40 countries concerned with agricultural greenhouse gases. He requested the library’s involvement in developing a literature database about croplands and greenhouse gases. By 2012, library faculty and staff had created a pilot database and web site with literature from the United States and Australia.
Increasing greenhouse gas production has a profound affect on the earth’s climate so this Ignite session will present an overview of the database’s content, including information about the controlled vocabulary developed to organize the content on the web site. Potential benefits of the database to researchers in countries pursuing research about minimizing greenhouse gas production and/or increasing yields from croplands throughout the world will be presented.
While international collaborative projects are exciting, they are not trouble free. Encouraging international partners to add content from their respective countries continues to be a major stumbling block. Also, finding truly unique content, particularly grey literature, for the database has been difficult. This presentation will address these problems and possible solutions to them.
Increasing greenhouse gas production has a profound affect on the earth’s climate so this Ignite session will present an overview of the database’s content, including information about the controlled vocabulary developed to organize the content on the web site. Potential benefits of the database to researchers in countries pursuing research about minimizing greenhouse gas production and/or increasing yields from croplands throughout the world will be presented.
While international collaborative projects are exciting, they are not trouble free. Encouraging international partners to add content from their respective countries continues to be a major stumbling block. Also, finding truly unique content, particularly grey literature, for the database has been difficult. This presentation will address these problems and possible solutions to them.