THE AGRIS CENTRE AT KASETSART UNIVERSITY
Implementing the new vision
Implementing the new vision
RAP PUBLICATION 2005/31
| THE AGRIS CENTRE AT KASETSART UNIVERSITY Implementing the new vision |
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2. The role and history of the Thai AGRIS Centre
3. Networking and national cooperation
4. Localization of knowledge - The Thai AGROVOC project
5. Localization of tools - Thai WebAGRIS
6. Access to electronic documents
8. Enhancing Thai AGRIS management with NLP techniques
9. Knowledge management activities - Present and future plans
Appendix 1 Thai AGRIS Centre outputs
Appendix 2 List of dictionaries for Thai AGROVOC translation
List of Tables
Table 1: Objectives of the Thai AGROVOC
Table 2: Performance evaluation of the Thai WebAGRIS
Table 3: Numbers of digital documents scanned by the Thai AGRIS Centre (as of July 2004)
Table 4: Time saved by image cleaning tools
List of Figures
Figure 1: Thai AGRIS data entry, 1975–2004
Figure 2: Intensity of AGRIS CD-ROM utilization at the AGRIS Centre, 1998–2001
Figure 3: The Thai agricultural thesaurus development process
Figure 4: Process of extracting Thai agriculture terms
Figure 6: Kasetsart agriculture students and the online databases they use
Figure 7: Proportion of time used for producing e-documents
Figure 8: Electronic document management system architecture
Figure 9: Thai ontology construction and maintenance system architecture
Figure 10: System architecture information extraction and tracking