The ITPC Knowledge Platform serves as a comprehensive resource for sharing and accessing information on tropical peatlands, catering to both knowledge users and providers. It aims to enhance collaboration, awareness, and discovery of open data while facilitating knowledge exchange and capacity building. The platform features an expert directory, network visualization, and tools to showcase research contributions and promote sustainable peatland management practices.

1. ITPC Knowledge Platform:
Connecting knowledge and research to people
Session: Knowledge Platform Fits for All: an All-in-One Solution to Exchange Information on Tropical Peatlands
Indonesia Pavilion COP26 | Glaasgow- UK, 5 November 2021
Haruni Krisnawati

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ITPC knowledge platform
▪ A go-to place for information on peatlands and provide
space for users to browse, search and contribute a
variety of knowledge products.
▪ Hosts two main users:
▪ Knowledge users – researchers, academics,
policymakers, students and members of the public
seeking reliable data to build and boost their own
analyses for their own needs; and
▪ Knowledge providers – research organizations,
government agencies and private organizations.

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Objectives
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To provide a platform on which to
list, capture and showcase all
relevant and publicly available
knowledge relating to peatland
information
A tool for knowledge exchange and
capacity building
To enable secondary use by
disseminating and communicating
available knowledge
Act as media for a community of
practice on sustainable peatland
Help disseminate policy and best
practice experiences on sustainable
tropical peatland management
To increase awareness and
discoverability of peatland-related
open data
To promote the birth of new
knowledge on peatlands
Knowledge
Platform

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This diagram illustrates how
people use the knowledge portal
and how the portal platform
interacts with other platforms.
ITPC Knowledge Portal
Inter platform and people interactions

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The architecture

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Entity relationship

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Expert directory content structure

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▪ 1,500 authors listed in this
directory.
▪ Comply with GDPR, clearance
and permission gained

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▪ The expert information is being
manage using VIVO.
▪ Open source software and an
ontology for representing
scholarship
▪ Enables the discovery of
research and scholarship
across disciplines
▪ Linked open data

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▪ Details information – profiles, skills,
works, visualization networks -
listed on each expert
▪ Each publication has Altmetrics
score and citation numbers showed
to highlight the popularity of the
publication and how they serve the
users

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▪ The network graph will visualize relationship
of author collaboration with others expert.
▪ Relationship line thickness is base on number
of publications being collaborate with others
expert
▪ The visualization focus on showing the
connections of the selected person. The
number of joint publications (or grants) will be
shown. Left-clicking on the name will load this
person's profile.
▪ Can export the underlying data as csv files.
Co-authors and publications per year will be
shown in tables at the bottom of the page as
well.

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▪ Provides a representation of the
research areas of each profile as a
"map of science".
▪ The size of the bubbles on the map
indicates the relative number of
papers in that area. The colors
indicate the subject areas. The
connections on the map indicate the
co-author tendencies of authors in
each of the disciples.
▪ Disciplines are grouped on the map
by co-author tendencies.

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Current development
▪ Static. Act as a metadata
harvester
▪ Current features is to
encourages outputs
discovery, expert
finding, and network
analysis.

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What next?
▪ Dynamic. Additional function and
feature that made the static directory
becoming more interactive
▪ Inviting data providers to submit their
work and make it available to the
public under agreed data-sharing
protocols

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