"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..." (Richard Feynman)
The following publications, written by my group have been published on the Document Repository as part of "Agricultural Information
and Knowledge Management Papers" Series.
At the 7th AOS workshop Prabakhar presented the implementation of AGROVOC into the DEAL (Digital Ecosystem for Agricultural Lifelihoods) Application and the Kethi Environment to create local versions of AGROVOC. This is a good showcase of the use of the thesaurus outside the traditional library environment.
The thesaurus browser has been installed on village information systems and has been very well received.
At the last day of the AFITA conference in Bangalore I was called to chair the closing plenary and to participate in a following Panel discussion.
During the closing plenary all sessions and workshops reported back and gave some recommendations for the further work.
The 7th AOS workshop is a big success. It is unquestionable one of the best session of AFITA 2006. We have always between 25 and 40 participants (overall more than 46 people participated) in the workshop and the level of the presentations is really high. Participants came from India, China, Thailand, Japan, Sri Lanka, France, USA and FAO. 15 out of 16 presentations were given. The very positive side this time was the lifely discussion. Often presenters were also interrupted with questions.
IIT Kanpur has a project of a Personal Knowledge Manager. A kind of Knowledge Napster, that will make it possible to exchange information between all users of the PKM. Has to be programmed from scratch to give meat for the students.
The will send us a Project note and I promised a problem statement, set of users and set of requirements
I think that we arrived in a situation where we have to learn also IT from the Indians.
Prof. J.Adinarayana presented a Decision Support Systems, GramyaVika s with openSOURce cms, openGIS, local language querying...
email:adi@csre.iitb.ac.in
I heard a very interesting presentation about an Agro Advisory system.Farmer Advice system, called e-Sagu.
P. Krishna Reddy, International Institute of Information Technology, pkreddy@iiit.ac.in. https://www.esagu.in
I am at the moment at the inaugural session of the 5th Asian conferencen on Information Technology in Agriculture. I am listening to the speech of the Chief Secretary of the Government of Karnataka, who started his words with a hinduist prayer.
