agropedia2dot0 v2x - ICAR

Agropedia

2.0

1

A brand new

Agropedia

2

What is new?


3

Why?


4

A quick timeline


Conceptualized in 2007


Came
on
-
line
in 2009


with Content Management, Social networking


Read/Write web for creating, interacting and jointly
enhancing agriculture knowledge


Delivery over cell phones in 2011


It is time the KM platform got a re
-
look


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Agropedia

1.0


All things agriculture!


Features


Library:


Certified content, with comments on the content


Agrowiki
,
agroblogs
: un
-
certified


Agroforum


Voice Messages, Text Messages, Voice
-
POPs


KVK Net


And it has
Knowledge models


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This is how it looks now

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A
re there any issues?


Ownership
–

why should I put content there?


Too much functionality
–

14 panels


Is the content certified?


Co
-
creation of content


What are Knowledge models? Should I bother about
them?


…..

Let
u
s simplify

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1. Ownership



Let us make an
agropedia

for
each participating institute!

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icrisat.agropedia.in


rice.agropedia.in



oilseeds.agropedia.in


uasr.agropedia.in

horti.agropedia.in

wheat.agropedia.in

ICAR
agropedia

10

Scope of an
agropedia


aggregate and publish the knowledge artifacts of a
single research institute, a university, an NGO, a
crop or even an individual


uasr.agropedia.in


Icrisat.agropeida.in


Madanmuthu.agropedia.in


Sugarcane.agropedia.in


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But they all come together


All contributions to every
agropedia

get
aggregated to the collective
agropedia


www.agropedia.in


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2
. Certification issues


Certified content vs. content by certified users


Ex: Doctors



All content in
agropedia

is contributed by certified
users


A workflow is in place to select the users who can
add content

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3
. Too much functionality


Concentrate on

knowledge management


Agropedia

is a KM Platform

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What is a KM Platform for
agriculture?

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How is a KM Platform different
from a website/portal?


Both are accessed over the web


Both can browsed/searched?



In a KM platform a document is
live


It forms relationships


It computes


Allows comments and reviews

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What does it compute?


Faceted tags:


Keywords


Crop name


Attachment processing




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What relationships?


Similar documents


Track the viewers


Track the viewers views(also seen)


More content by this Author


PUSH (in the form of emails)


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So What is new?


SaaS


Unified
agropedia


Responsive themes


Drupal 7


Push


Simplification


Certification


KrishiVoc


Tagger


Crop


Attachment processing

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What happened to
Knowledge Models?


KrishiVoc

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What is
KrishiVoc
?


new type of agriculture knowledge model,

KrishiVoc


Cover Indian agriculture COMPLETELY


Currently about 33,00 terms



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How is
KrishiVoc

used?


F
or tagging


Manual and automatic


For Searching


Semantic search


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Come Join the
agropedia

wayof

agriculture

knowledge management


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agropedia.in

Thank You

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Thank you

Certification Issues



Type of
Users


Activity

Read

Search

Browse

Share

Add

Comment

Rate

Edi
t

User
identification

Anonymous
Users

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

No

Registered
Users

Yes

Yes

Yes

*Yes

YES
*


*Yes

*Yes

No

No

Power Users

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Editors

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes**

Site
-
Wise

Admin

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes***

*Only after the approval

from the administer

**Can identify only

“REGISTERED” & “POWER” users.

***Can identify all users (Registered, Power and Editors)

All content in
agropedia

is contributed by certified users.


A workflow is in place to select the users who can add
content.