MANAGING AGRIKNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION IN RURAL INDIA

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MANAGING AGRI-KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION IN RURAL INDIA
From the lab to the field The return loop
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Coherence Interoperability Digital
Ecosystem Prof. Jayanta Chatterjee, IME Dept.,
IIT Kanpur Prof. T.V. Prabhakar, CSE Dept., IIT
Kanpur
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Standardised Information Collection
Dissemination
MANAGE IIPR
Agriculture Universities Institutes
CSA HBTI
Mobile
National Krishi resources
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ICAR
KVK
Web
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Rural Citizen
International Agriculture resources
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ICRISAT
Radio
FAO
TV
Sharamik Bharti
Performance
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Other NGOs
Deployment Partners
Conceptual Architecture for a self managed
ecosystem
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OBJECTIVE

• In the proposed ontology driven digital info
  mediation architecture different user groups and
  expert groups will co-create content through
  knowledge exchange and dynamic aggregation will
  be enabled for delivery over multiple media. This
  will allow different e Services in this domain to
  exchange knowledge objects according to a
  commonly agreed ontology.

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Project DEAL
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How to USE DEAL Portal ?
Log on to www.dealindia.org
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HOME Page
Click to see Eng. version
Click to see Hindi Version
Click to see Kisan Audio Blog
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English Version
Main Categories of Agriculture. Click on Crops to
navigate.
Grid Interfaces. Click on pulses to navigate
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CROPS
Sub categories of Crops. Now Click on Cereals
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Crops -gt Cereals
Sub Sub categories of Crops. Now click on wheat
to read about its agronomy practices.
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Crop -gt Cereals -gt Wheat
Agronomy Practices of Wheat
Taxonomy of wheat
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Grid Interfaces Agriculture Knowledge Center
Home page -gt English -gt Pulses
Click on intersection node of climate and
pigeonpea.
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AKC
Content Section
Valid User can edit content
Image/Audio/Video section
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Kissan Audio Blog Deal Home Page -gt KisanBlog
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Click on wheat
Comments posted by Agri experts in audio form
Categories of kisan blog
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Queries posted by farmers
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Comment form
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This is admin part Administrator can manage the
whole Audio blog
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HINDI VERSON Home page -gt Hindi
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Click on crops
Main categories of agriculture
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Click on pulses
These are sub categories of crops
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These are sub categories of pulses
Click on pigeonpea
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Agronomy practices of pigeon pea
Taxonomy of pigeonpea
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KHETI Agriculture Thesaurus in Hindi
LOGON TO www.kheti.org.in
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KHETI Home Page
Click on Hindi link
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KHETI Agriculture Thesaurus in Hindi
Click Here
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KHETI Agriculture Thesaurus in Hindi
English Equivalent Of Hindi
Click
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KHETI Alphabetical List Visualize all terms in
alphabetical order.
Click on search link
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KHETI Search This page gives the possibility
to search terms in several ways either selecting
a category (e.g. geographical or taxonomic term),
or by simply entering a term in the text box
provided. This second method allows you to select
one of the following options "exact match",
"starting with" or "containing text", which
execute an exact or a logical search.
Click to view hierarchy
Click to view content
Click to view relations
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KHETI
relations
hierarchy
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KHETI
Linkage of DEAL content with AGROVOC
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Agropedia

• Encyclopedia of Indian Agriculture
• More like a repository of anything agriculture
  compendium of research, practice, advice..
• Agriculture multimedia content in all Indian
  languages
• Semantically marked up and indexed
• Built like Encyclopedia Britannica as well as
  Wikipedia
• Large number of pages created by sponsored
  researchers, extension workers..
• Users allowed to add content as well

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Agropedia ..(cont. 2)

• Content types
• Articles from Handbooks
• Movie clips, ImagesBlogs,
• discussion forums
• Teaching material from Universities
• Research papers and other such publications
• Extension material
• Topic map based indexing, Semantic search
• Multiple interfaces based on user type
  scientist, farmer, extension worker