Krishikosh: A digital repository to disseminate agricultural knowledge

RAKHEE SHARMA; AMRENDER KUMAR; P S PANDEY; HIMANSHU HIMANSHU; MANSI GUPTA; SANJIV KAPUR; ASHISH SHARMA; A K JAIN

doi:10.56093/ijas.v88i5.80073

Authors

RAKHEE SHARMA Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012
AMRENDER KUMAR Senior Scientist, AKMU, IARI, New Delhi
P S PANDEY Division of Agricultural Education, ICAR, New Delhi 110 012
HIMANSHU HIMANSHU Scientist (SG), ICAR- Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture, KAB-1, New Delhi 110 012
MANSI GUPTA Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012
SANJIV KAPUR Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012
ASHISH SHARMA Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012
A K JAIN Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012

https://doi.org/10.56093/ijas.v88i5.80073

Keywords:

Agricultural knowledge, Digital Repository, Dissemination, Krishikosh

Abstract

Krishikosh is a versatile open access digital repository catering to the needs of Indian National Agricultural Research and Education System (NARES) and has architecture of centralized hosting of content but decentralized management. The Krishikosh has been designed using open source software Dspace and an efficient Integrated Content Management System (ICMS), which has suitability and configuration to meet the requirements of NARES and created dependable digital repository. Each institution in NARES has been configured as community in Dspace having it’s own collections and logo. Each community and collection can be given independent rights to registered users for uploading and managing the contents. Effectively Krishikosh is a collectively managed, centrally aggregated repository with integrated search facility. Krishikosh is a huge repository of theses, reports, articles etc. Keeping track of all the information is hectic and difficult for the user, which results in low usage of the Krishikosh site. Thus, an application with push notification was developed in order to involve the user with the Krishikosh, by sending messages regarding the new upload. Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) server were utilized for implementation of push notification which take the data from the postgreSQL database, which is most advanced open source database. PHP script is used to connect the java programming in android studio, the database and the GCM server. In this study, usage statistics of Krishikosh were also analyzed.

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