eprintid: 4846
rev_number: 9
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datestamp: 2011-12-09 05:32:13
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type: conference_item
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Kaur, P
creators_name: Patwar, S
creators_name: Sylvester, A G
creators_name: Venkataraman, B
icrisatcreators_name: Kaur, P
icrisatcreators_name: Patwar, S
icrisatcreators_name: Sylvester, A G
icrisatcreators_name: Venkataraman, B
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
country: India
title: Use of Semantic Wiki Tool to Build a Repository of Reusable Information Objects in Agricultural Education and Extension: results from a preliminary study

ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.1
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
keywords: collaborative authoring, semantic web, reusability of learning resour
abstract: There has been significant interest in applying the practices of semantic web to build an
online repository of agricultural information (example: FAO-India efforts in AGROPEDIA).
We will describe the results from a preliminary investigation into the use of a semantic
tool for Mediawiki with content from the agricultural domain as the substrate.
The English AGROVOC have been used to generate 17 broad categories of terms to
harvest entries from the Wikipedia and to form the relationships. These can be browsed
at http://vasatwiki.icrisat.org/index.php/. A total of 1000 articles were downloaded and
posted onto a local server running MediaWiki software. A semantic tool
(http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki) was used to create additional tags in
the hosted entries and links were formed.
The searches inside the semantically re-constructed collection are more specific
compared to searches on the downloaded collection. We are conscious that this may not
be a rigorous comparison. An even more interesting possibility is the ease with which the
entries can be constituted into information objects that can be reused because their
relationships with other objects in this re-constituted domain are rich and complex. With
suitable filters the information objects can be exported to various interfaces (re-
purposing). An area of interest is the use of this approach to aggregate content for use
in education and in extension.

date: 2011
date_type: published
publication: Virtual Acdemy for The Semi-Arid Tropics
publisher: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics 
pagerange: 1-12
event_title: Web2fordev Conference
event_location: Rome, Italy
event_dates: 25-27 September 2007
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
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funders: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
citation:   Kaur, P and Patwar, S and Sylvester, A G and Venkataraman, B  (2011) Use of Semantic Wiki Tool to Build a Repository of Reusable Information Objects in Agricultural Education and Extension: results from a preliminary study.  In: Web2fordev Conference, 25-27 September 2007, Rome, Italy.     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/4846/1/Web%202%20for%20Dev.pdf