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Use of Semantic Wiki Tool to Build a Repository of Reusable Information Objects in Agricultural Education and Extension: results from a preliminary study

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Title Use of Semantic Wiki Tool to Build a Repository of Reusable Information Objects in Agricultural Education and Extension: results from a preliminary study
 
Creator Kaur, P
Patwar, S
Sylvester, A G
Venkataraman, B
 
Subject Information Science
 
Description 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.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2011
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4846/1/Web%202%20for%20Dev.pdf
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.