The Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING) is a CIARD project led by GFAR.
The Routemap consists of a registry of existing information services in ARD, indexed and described in a way that makes them more easily "exploitable" for building value-added integrated services.
The idea behind this is that it is difficult to build value-added services without knowing what has already been done, which sources are available and how to tap into them: the CIARD RING is going to provide this ¿missing link¿ between existing services that are not aware of each other and between existing services / sources and the foreseen value-added services that can be built on top of them.