1. Agropedia 2.0 1

2. A brand new 2

3. What is new? 3

4. Why? 4

5. A quick timeline Conceptualized in 2007 Conceptualized in 2007 Came on-line in 2009 Came on-line in 2009 with Content Management, Social networking with Content Management, Social networking Read/Write web for creating, interacting and jointly enhancing agriculture knowledge Read/Write web for creating, interacting and jointly enhancing agriculture knowledge Delivery over cell phones in 2011 Delivery over cell phones in 2011 It is time the KM platform got a re-look 5

6. Agropedia 1.0 All things agriculture! All things agriculture! Features Features Library: Library: Certified content, with comments on the content Certified content, with comments on the content Agrowiki, agroblogs: un-certified Agrowiki, agroblogs: un-certified Agroforum Agroforum Voice Messages, Text Messages, Voice-POPs Voice Messages, Text Messages, Voice-POPs KVK Net KVK Net And it has Knowledge models And it has Knowledge models 6

7. This is how it looks now 7

8. Are there any issues? Ownership – why should I put content there? Ownership – why should I put content there? Too much functionality – 14 panels Too much functionality – 14 panels Is the content certified? Is the content certified? Co-creation of content Co-creation of content What are Knowledge models? Should I bother about them? What are Knowledge models? Should I bother about them? ….. ….. Let us simplify 8

9. 1. Ownership Let us make an agropedia for each participating institute! 9

10. icrisat.agropedia.in rice.agropedia.in oilseeds.agropedia.in uasr.agropedia.in horti.agropedia.in wheat.agropedia.in ICAR agropedia 10

11. 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 aggregate and publish the knowledge artifacts of a single research institute, a university, an NGO, a crop or even an individualuasr.agropedia.inIcrisat.agropeida.inMadanmuthu.agropedia.inSugarcane.agropedia.in 11

12. But they all come together All contributions to every agropedia get aggregated to the collective agropedia All contributions to every agropedia get aggregated to the collective agropediawww.agropedia.in 12

13. 2. Certification issues Certified content vs. content by certified users Certified content vs. content by certified users Ex: Doctors Ex: Doctors All content in agropedia is contributed by certified users All content in agropedia is contributed by certified users A workflow is in place to select the users who can add content A workflow is in place to select the users who can add content 13

14. 3. Too much functionality Concentrate on knowledge management Agropedia is a KM Platform 14

15. What is a KM Platform for agriculture? 15

16. How is a KM Platform different from a website/portal? Both are accessed over the web Both are accessed over the web Both can browsed/searched? Both can browsed/searched? In a KM platform a document is live In a KM platform a document is live It forms relationships It forms relationships It computes It computes Allows comments and reviews Allows comments and reviews 16

17. What does it compute? Faceted tags: Faceted tags: Keywords Keywords Crop name Crop name Attachment processing Attachment processing 17

18. What relationships? Similar documents Similar documents Track the viewers Track the viewers Track the viewers views(also seen) Track the viewers views(also seen) More content by this Author More content by this Author PUSH (in the form of emails) PUSH (in the form of emails) 18

19. So What is new? SaaS SaaS Unified agropedia Unified agropedia Responsive themes Responsive themes Drupal 7 Drupal 7 Push Push Simplification Certification KrishiVoc Tagger Crop Attachment processing 19

20. What happened to Knowledge Models? KrishiVoc 20

21. What is KrishiVoc? new type of agriculture knowledge model, KrishiVoc new type of agriculture knowledge model, KrishiVoc Cover Indian agriculture COMPLETELY Cover Indian agriculture COMPLETELY Currently about 33,00 terms Currently about 33,00 terms 21

23. How is KrishiVoc used? For tagging For tagging Manual and automatic Manual and automatic For Searching For Searching Semantic search Semantic search 23

24. Come Join the agropedia wayof agriculture knowledge management 24 agropedia.in

25. Thank You

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27. Certification Issues Type of Users Activity ReadSearchBrowseShareAddCommentRateEdi t User identification Anonymous Users Yes No Registered Users Yes *YesYES * *Yes No Power UsersYes No EditorsYes Yes** Site-Wise Admin 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.