Workshop on Knowledge Management Tools

Proceedings of workshop conducted at ICRISAT on 14th

, 15th

December 2010:

A two-day workshop was conducted at ICRISAT, Patancheru on 14TH

- 15TH

December, 2010.

During this workshop, all the Consortium partners of Rice Knowledge Management Portal (RKMP)

project participated. Apart from them IIT-Kanpur has also played a role. A presentation on Indian Rice

Research Repository (i3R) developed by IIT-K was given by TV Prabhakar, Meeta Bagga, Rahul Samaddar,

Sharwan Shukla, Nitesh Singh.

http://i3R.in

• i3R(http://i3r.in), a focused research space, is a content management platform for hosting rice

related documents such as journal articles, conference papers, books, book chapters,

proceedings, preprints, multimedia content etc.

• The role of the author in i3R is

• Unrestricted reading/uploading

• Downloading of PDF by readers

• Distribution of PDF to colleagues

• Full text searching

• Linking

• Preservation in repositories

• The i3R differs mainly by Automatic Tag Extraction for the uploaded documents: Agrotags

Documents have fields like: ISBN, Series, Publisher, Abstract, References, First Author, Corporate

Authors, Content language, Subject, Publisher, Publisher Year….

• A brief presentation about “Introduction to agrotags, agrovoc and Semantic search” has been

given to have a clarified concept about agrotags. The presentation mainly dealt with Agrovoc,

Agrotags and Knowledge Management.

• Agrotags: is a proper subset of Agrovoc which enable semantic searching and retrieval. Agrotags

are specially designed with tagging in mind.

• Agrotagger: is software for assigning key phrases automatically from Agrotags. It is an automatic

keyword extraction mechanism which is a pluggable module and uses Keywords from a

controlled Vocabulary-Agrotags. Uasge of Agrotags and Agrotaggers in i3R is this repository

provides for rich semantic interlinking between document using Agrotags. Agrotagger: i3R-

repository is a open platform to submit any kind of agricultural published material, the

Agrotagger running in the background automatically generates keywords. The different content

types in i3r are: Book, Book Chapter, Conference Paper, Conference Proceedings, Journal, Slide

Bank, Miscellaneous

• A brief presentation on Agropedia was given by IIT-K Team members. The project was

sponsored by National Agriculture Innovation Project, Indian Council of Agriculture Research

which started in 2008 Jan and completed in Dec in 2010. Agropedia is Agriculture Knowledge

repository of universal Meta models and localized content for a variety of users with

appropriate interfaces and multiple delivery models built in collaborative mode in multiple

languages. A Read/write web, which is semantically, enabled with social networking and

Multiple Delivery models for Agriculture.

A presentation on “Knowledge Models in Agropedia” was also given which focused the

following points:

� Knowledge models are structured representations of knowledge using concepts to represent

pieces of knowledge and relationships between them. In agropedia KM has been design with the

intention of using them for indexing and browsing the content. The process responsible for

gathering, analysing, storing and sharing knowledge and information. It involves the design,

review and implementation of both social and technological processes

RICE KM

Presentation on “Approaches for Increasing Rice Production in Uttar Pradesh” was given by

Dr.B.N.Singh Directorate of Research, BIRSA AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY. They proposed a novel

technique of developing a Rice Calender for UP in English and Hindi so as to keep the farmers and

extension agents updated about the events from time-to-time in Rice production.

Enabling Indian Language Support & Input Tools by Dr.Kathiresan, Krishnapriya and Surendra Patil from

CDAC was presented. The main agenda of the presentation was India Development Gateway (InDG)

Initiative, Types of fonts & need for Unicode, Input tools - Online Resources and Enabling Indic Language

Support – Demo.

India Development Gateway (InDG)

National level Initiative supported by Department of Information Technology and being implemented by

C-DAC, Hyderabad. InDG is a unique Knowledge Platform providing opportunity to people to share their

views and acts as a catalyst for the developmental sectors working at rural level. Governing Council

chaired by Professor M.S. Swaminathan. The core objectives of InDG are Facilitating rural empowerment

through provision of responsive information, products and services in local language. The online services

provided by InDG are

Vyapar (Buyer Seller Platform), Ask an Expert, Market Information for Perishables (Secondary Markets),

Weather Forecast, Basic IT Literacy and Financial Literacy Courses.

Fonts and their types:

True Type: Originally developed by Apple Computer in late 1980s.

e.g: Times New Roman, Courier

Open Type: Scalable and more flexible format. Jointly developed by Adobe & Microsoft. Released for

public use in 1997.

� Hindi : Mangal

� Telugu : Gautami

� Tamil : Latha

� Bengali : Vrinda

� Kannada : Tunga

Followed by the presentation a demo was given regarding Enabling Indic Language Support.