The document discusses the importance of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) in promoting rural development, emphasizing the role of knowledge sharing among various stakeholders, including farmers, NGOs, and service providers. It highlights the challenges of defining 'rural' and the necessity of human resources in agricultural contexts, while suggesting methods to improve digital access and resources. Future directions in KOS development focus on effective indexing and classification mechanisms to enhance accessibility and utility in rural development efforts.

1. Knowledge Organizations Systems
(KOS) For Rural Development

2. PAPER SUBMITTED BY
• Roopa Kashappanavar
Department of Library and Information Science,
Karnatak University, Dharwad – 580 003, INDIA
Email: roopakashappanavar@gmail.com
• Shivakumar Ganiger
Department of Library and Information Science,
Karnatak University, Dharwad – 580 003, INDIA
Email: sbgshivu@gmail.com
• Divya V M
Department of Library and Information Science,
Karnatak University, Dharwad – 580 003, INDIA
Email: divyavm2net@gmail.com

3. Knowledge Organizations Systems
(KOS) For Rural Development

5. “KNOWLEDGE IS THE FOOD
FOR MAN BECAUSE IN
ABSENCE OF KNOWLEDGE
MAN CANNOT GROW HIS
FOOD.”

6. 1. Introduction
• Today, every country of the world is
trying to be developed in every
possible way. Every country whether it
is a developed or developing, they both
want to progress in a scientific way.
They want to reach on the top of
developments. But all countries know
it better that whether the problem of
poverty, or corruption cannot be
removing the problem of illiteracy.

7. • The economic and
social development in
India and, more
generally, in advanced
societies has led to a
deep re-thinking of the
role of the agricultural
sector, generating an
extensive and long
reflection on the
relationship between the
citizen (consumer and
user of land for food)
and the farmer.

8. Principles for knowledge-sharing
• Building up good relationships on personal acquaintance and
trust.
• Create a shared knowledge base by vocational training, joint
discussion, publication, team building and job rotation;
• Provide adequate meeting places and time for exchanging
ideas.
• Establish incentives for those who share their knowledge.
• Offer capacity building to employees in order to become
more creative.
• Appreciate an idea irrespective of the status of the person
who provides it (nonhierarchical handling ideas).
• Encourage employees to admit knowledge gaps and project
failures; do not reproach such honesty.

9. 2. The concept of “rural”
• The actual concept of “rural” is a rough
lumping-together of a wide variety of
environments and activities. A research
strategy must be able to handle the wealth
and diversity inherent in the concept, and
there is no consistent operational definition
of the concept of “rural” in India. Rural is
an empirical category where general social,
economic and ecological processes have
their specific outcomes.

10. 3. Knowledge Systems in Rural Areas
• The sector project Knowledge Systems in Rural
Areas sees potential in concentrating on
income-generating agricultural cooperation
with rural people. Farmer organizations,
public and private service providers, NGOs,
suppliers, civil society organizations constitute
a knowledge system which should be managed
in away to benefit small holder farmers and
rural poor.

11. • agree on the same objectives
• share strong interest in the same
topic
• contribute their experiences in an
open fashion
• meet regularly and invest time
voluntarily
• agree on neutral facilitation in
working groups and meetings
• set up a minimal or slender
structure for managing meetings,
websites and publications
(lessons learned)
4. Knowledge Networks for Rural
Development

12. 5. The evolution of development
services: from agriculture to rural
• KOS are part of an attempt to improve access
to digital resources via vocabulary control and
knowledge organization. Vocabulary control
aims to reduce the ambiguity of natural
language when describing and retrieving items
for purposes of information searching.

13. TECHNOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO
THE CHALLENGE HAVE EMERGED
Agricultural productivity and
global food production
have grown steadily
• Scientific work towards the
development of integrated
approaches to pest and
disease control, and farming
systems compatible with
their agroecological settings,
have contributed to the
sustainability of the
productivity gains.

14. 6. Development philosophy
• emphasis on high-quality affordable education
for rural children. With its booming
information economy, India is a land where a
good education is often a ticket out of poverty,
but it is also a land with extraordinary
educational stratification:
• extra-curricular support for students. Children
from poor rural backgrounds often lack the
confidence, knowledge, connections, and
family support needed to move into good
careers.

15. For people living in this
environment, knowledge is key
• Farmers acting on their
own – many of them
remote and difficult to
reach – are ill-equipped
to avail themselves of
opportunities of which
they may not even be
aware.

16. 7. The Role Of Knowledge and
Human Resources In Agriculture
• In this context, human resources can play a
major role through the effects of spillovers
on the creation of production process
resources.

17. 8. Special issue papers
• Various cross-cutting themes run through this
issue.
• One of the main challenges facing those who seek
to take advantage of existing KOS resources in
the new digital environment of the Web is the
high cost of classifying and indexing Web pages.
• The development of automatic techniques to
assist the classification and indexing of digital
resources is a key area of research.

18. 9. Future Directions
• Papers in the issue present
latest results from
differing approaches to the
old problem of achieving
useful metadata from
indexing and classification
efforts at a manageable
cost. Analysis of current
problems and potential
solutions in automatic
classification of Web pages
is presented alongside
initial results from the
latest turn in applying the
‘people power’ of author
indexing via social tagging.

19. Relationships are changing between
governments and people
• Worldwide, political and institutional
developments are fundamentally altering the
relationships between government and people.
• With increasing economic liberalization,
governments no longer provide services that can
be more effectively – and efficiently – offered by
the private sector or civil-society organizations.
• The public sector is now concentrating on
creating a policy and regulatory environment that
catalyses private sector initiative, as well as on
improving the quality of services that only
governments can offer

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