Agropedia 2.0

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A brand new

Agropedia

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What is new?

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Why?

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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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Are 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?

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Let us 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.inwheat.agropedia.

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ICAR agropedia

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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:KeywordsCrop name Attachment processing

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What relationships?

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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?

For tagging Manual and automatic

For Searching Semantic search

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Come Join the agropedia wayof agriculture knowledge

management

agropedia.in

Thank You

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Thank you

Certification Issues

Type of Users

Activity

Read Search

Browse

Share

Add Comment

Rate

Edit

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.