Link to the AdaptDev shared knowledge base

[Pedro Prieto Martín]

Hi again,
Thank you to all of you who contacted me in the past days to discuss about CLARISSA's Participatory Adaptive Management evaluation. Please keep your insights/reactions/complaints coming. Really appreciated!!
(whenever you happen to read the paper, feel free to contact me).

A request that came out of these interactions was... that I should send a reminder to the group about the AdaptDev shared Knowledge Base. Some of the people who contacted me had never heard about it, and were positively surprised by it!

So once again: the Knowledge Base is available here:

    https://docs.adaptdev.info/lib/ 
   

It currently contains 2,012 resources linked to Adaptive Management (and development, and system thinking, etc).

A few Key insights on the “Adaptive Management in International Development”
Knowledge Base (from the how-to guide attached to this message):

• The library contains and categorises resources related to Adaptive Managemen and International Development, with some focus around the use of MEL to support it. At the time of writing the library contains 1907 resources and more than 1 Gigabyte of source documents.
• The documents include journal articles, books, reports, case-studies, toolkits, courses, blogposts, websites, and other grey literature.
• The resources are flexibly organised within a hierarchy of categories and sub-categories, which facilitate browsing and access.
• The knowledge base can be queried using Zotero’s powerful search functionalities, which not only include bibliographic fields such as title, authors, publisher, tags and notes, but also search within the full source text of the pdf documents.
• The Knowledge based can be accessed in different ways:
  • Through the user-friendly web interface. https://adaptdev.info
  • Using Zotero’s web interface. No need to register unless you want to access the pdf sources.
  • Using Zotero app, available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. This enables users to keep an updated copy of the library in their computer and get access to all the reference managing system’s functionalities and source documents.
• This library was created by Pedro Prieto-Martin, researcher from the Institute of Development Studies, as part of a research project from the programme Making All Voices Count.
  • It was created using Zotero, an open-source reference management system. From the beginning, the library was opened to be freely used by the Adaptive Management practitioner’s community.
  • The library was later adopted and extended by the GLAM (Global Learning for Adaptive Management) programme, which used it for its help-desk function
  • After GLAM closed, the Zotero library has been maintained by its original creator, while its user-friendly web interface access is provided by our friends at EdTechHub.
• Please contact Pedro if there is any resource you would like to be included in the Knowledge Base, and consider joining the Zotero Library to be able to contribute resources directly. The more of us updating the Knowledge Base, the more value it will provide to everyone. 
  

That's all for today!
Kind regards,
/pedro