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New publications from my group

The following publications, written by my group have been published on the Document Repository as part of "Agricultural Information
and Knowledge Management Papers" Series.

* Mapping AGROVOC and the Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus:
Definitions, tools, procedures
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/ag862e/ag862e00.pdf

Proposal for the NAIP

1. Creation of a Semantic Framework for Information and Knowledge Exchange in Indian Agricultural Research - India AOS

DEAL and KETI

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.

Closing Plenary and Panel Discussion at AFITA 2006

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.

AOS Workshop at AFITA 2006

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.

Collaboration with IIT Kanpur

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

Learning from India

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

e-Sagu

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

AGRIS - South to South

A new AGRIS initiative will be AGRIS South to South exchange with Country portals for India and China directed mainly to Africa

THE CHINA PROJECT

We have to exploit the reestablishing of the Chinese AGRIS centre. We must do now the

CHina Portal (Agricultural Knowledge from China for the World) - should this be a series

of Portals Title AGRIS South-South. We have now the Chinese references and we should

organize them in a easy to use way. We could also go for ads from Chinese AGRO TechnoFirms

India's specificity in economic Development

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.

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