| Autor: |
Nowick, Elaine1, Gardner, Melanie2 |
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Technical Services Quarterly. 2001, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p41-49. 9p. 2 Black and White Photographs. |
| Abstrakt: |
The Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) is a coalition of about 40 land-grant universities, professional societies, non-profit organizations, and other groups coordinated by the National Agricultural Library. The purpose of the AgNIC project is to create and maintain a portal to high-quality information in agriculture through the Internet and to provide an online reference service. Each AgNIC partner institution takes responsibility for a Web site on a particular agriculture- related subject area. AgNIC provides a model for governance of a distributed, voluntary alliance. Planned changes in the technical architecture are discussed. Challenges facing AgNIC include communication in a geographically distributed group, funding, balancing the missions of the individual institutions with the alliance mission, and maintaining Web sites in a rapidly changing technological environment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
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