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IIT Kanpur

The Knowledge & Interaction Hub for Indian Agriculture

(www.agropedia.net)

agropedia the project…

Sponsored by the ‘National Agricultural Innovation Project’ of the  ‘Indian Council of Agricultural Research’

Started in 2008 January

We are five partners IIT, KanpurZPD-IV, KanpurUAS, Raichur IIM, Calcutta ICRISAT, Hyderabad

Agropedia initiatives

What is agropedia…A

Read/write web,Which is

Semantically enabledWith

Multiple delivery mechanismsand

Social networkingfor

Indian Agriculture

What makes agropedia…

Knowledge Models Content repository Sponsored contents/Certified

(GyanDhara) contents Contributed contents/social (Jangyan)

contents Voice Krishi Vigyan Kendra (vKVK) KVK-Net (Krishi Vigyan Knowledge -

Network) Openagri (Open access digital agriculture

repository) Agrotagger

Extension Material Certified contents/Gyandhara

The library contents are variety of document - like-information-objects

Includes__ Library, Dos & Don’ts, Crop calendar

The crop calendar and dos and don’ts are related to agricultural practices on specific crops

Voice POPs Voice messages Text messages

Interactions

Contributed contents/Jangyan This space is based on web 2.0 concepts Includes__

agrowiki, agroblog, agroforum, agrochat

It is a common platform for all registered users to express their ideas/ opinions/ experiences and see them published on the web instantly

Other features in agropedia User Visits : Shows which user has visited

your page Comment notification : User gets a mail

when someone comments on his content Private message : Inbox like functionality Invite a friend : Registered user can send

multiple invites Similar: Similar post based on tag set of a

given node Multilingual editor : Write in 11 different

languages Featured User : To select a user based on

add content continuously Krishi Vichar

Statistics of agropediaParticulars Numbers

Agroblog 679

Agrowiki 1333

Agroforum 217

Library 1984

Registered users 7500

Published Nodes 15800

Countries visited 219

Total page views 2184328

Package of practices 87

Voice messages 2474

Text messages 326

Total visits 867760

Unique visits 654009

Countries visited

Knowledge Models in

agropediaKnowledge Models in

agropedia

Knowledge Models Knowledge models are structured

representations of knowledge using concepts to represent pieces of knowledge and relationships between them

17 crops KMs

In agropedia KMs have been designed with the intention of using them for indexing and browsing the content

Banana Potato Mango Sugarcane

Chickpea Rice Pigeon Pea Tomato

Generic Safflower Pearl Millet Wheat

Grapes SorghumVegetable Pea

Litchi

Groundnut

English Knowledge Model

Hindi Knowledge Model

French Knowledge Model

Features of KM 1.0 and 2.0

KM 1.0 KM 2.0A) Last nodes are not expanded e.g-

Disease -- Causal organism, Insect – Scientific name, and Weed -- Scientific name

Last nodes of KM 1.0 are further expanded e.g- Disease -- Causal organism, -- Nature, -- Symptom, -- Disease management -- Biological Control -- Mechanical Control -- Cultural Control -- Integrated disease management -- Chemical control -- Formulation -- Chemical group -- Application rate -- Trade name -- Application time

C) Total number of relationships used are 12

Total number of relationships used are 56

D) Total number of Concepts varies from 60 to 80 depending upon crop

Total number of Concepts varies from 500 to 800depending upon crop

B) Used for indexing and browsing the content

Used for Inferencing

Potato Knowledge Model 2.0

How to inference…

Workshop on knowledge model

The digital agricultural articles repository for agricultural documents

openagri (http://www.agropedia.net/openaccess), a focused research space, is a content management platform for hosting agriculture documents such as journal articles, conference papers, books, book chapters, proceedings, preprints, multimedia content etc.

openagriAn open access agriculture research

repository

Structure of openagri

How is openagri different?

Agrotags & Agrotagger Agrotags : is a proper subset of agrovoc which

allows automatically assigning of keywords to enable semantic searching and retrieval. Agrotags are specially designed with tagging in mind

Agrotagger : is a software for assigning key phrases automatically from Agrotags

Top level categories of Agrotags

Agrotags: openagri-This repository provides for rich semantic interlinking between document using Agrotags

Agrotagger: openagri- repository is a open platform to submit any kind of agricultural published material, the Agrotagger running in the background automatically generates keywords

Usage of Agrotags & Agrotagger

Agrotags & Agrotaggers in joint action

Agrotagger homepage

Structure of agropedia

Agropedia website homepage