MANAGING AGRI-KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION IN RURAL INDIA From the

MANAGING AGRI-KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION IN RURAL INDIA From the lab to the field & The user managed return loop R URL: www. dealindia. org Prof. Jayanta Chatterjee, IME Dept. , IIT Kanpur Prof. T. V. Prabhakar, CSE Dept. , IIT Kanpur

CHALLENGES ON THE SOFTSIDE ØPoor literacy rate – low use of textual information ØAbsence of info in vernacular languages and multiplicity of languages. ØIt is costly to create-maintain and update digital content in this domain

Deliverables from the DEAL project: 1. Ecology like self managed growth model of the digital knowledge base. 2. An ontology & metadata system that supports the knowledge archiving & retrieval reuse in Indian Agriculture and rural livelihood domain. 3. Web based services for digital content aggregation and delivery to agriculture and rural livelihood related portals. 4. Search tools for automated assistance to Digital Content Management in Hindi and other local languages for the backend operation of Kissan Response and Village Knowledge Centers.

Standardised Information Collection & Dissemination FAO KVK ICRISAT Agriculture Universities Institutes National Krishi resources MANAGE IIPR जञ न ध र Mobile Web DEAL International Agriculture resources Radio Sharamik Bharti Other NGO’s Deployment Partners TV जन जञ न Performance Conceptual Architecture for a self managed ecosystem Rural Citizen ICAR CSA HBTI

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AGROVOC Browser • Evangelising and Socialisation of AGROVOC-Hindi • The interface was tough to use by the agriculture people • Needed a more intuitive interface • Demo

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User Interface Knowledge management PDF, Word, JPEG, . . Raw Data on Disk RDF. . Meta tags Concept Maps, Ontologies. . Knowledge Model Graph. Viz, . . Visualizations GUI, Search User Interface Agropedia Architecture Content management

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