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An irrigation ontology and its use for localized, illustration-based educational materials.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An irrigation ontology and its use for localized, illustration-based educational materials./
Author:	Cornejo, Camilo.
Description:	128 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2018.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-06A.
Subject:	Education, Agricultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3224525
ISBN:	9780542755712

An irrigation ontology and its use for localized, illustration-based educational materials.
Cornejo, Camilo.

An irrigation ontology and its use for localized, illustration-based educational materials. - 128 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2018.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2006.

There is little doubt that economic and social development, and the benefits that accrue such as improved nutrition and health, requires an educated populace. However, illiteracy affects 860 million people as of 2005, without including a larger number of adults with low level of formal education. Most illiterates are poor, farmers, and female, living in rural areas. In agriculture, education is essential to improve food security, rural employment, and to reduce poverty.

ISBN: 9780542755712Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022852
Education, Agricultural.

An irrigation ontology and its use for localized, illustration-based educational materials.
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520 $a There is little doubt that economic and social development, and the benefits that accrue such as improved nutrition and health, requires an educated populace. However, illiteracy affects 860 million people as of 2005, without including a larger number of adults with low level of formal education. Most illiterates are poor, farmers, and female, living in rural areas. In agriculture, education is essential to improve food security, rural employment, and to reduce poverty.
520 $a It is difficult to transmit information to people that cannot understand traditional text based educational materials. An option is the use of illustration-based materials in which the information is represented using graphics. Manual development of graphical materials, even using traditional computer graphics packages, is a very time consuming process. Those materials usually are general and do not reflect the cultural conditions of the target audience. The approach presented in this work aims at producing illustration based educational materials using an ontology based system. This methodology allows for development of illustrations that can be adjusted (localized) to specific characteristics of the audience.
520 $a Ontology is a formal, explicit specification of a conceptualization within a domain, where conceptualization refers to an abstract model of some phenomenon. An irrigation ontology was developed to organize data and organize concepts in the irrigation and water management domains, while allowing browsing, search, tagging and classification of information. This ontology consists of more than 270 terms and 300 relationships. The irrigation ontology also stores vector graphics that can be localized. This means that they can be adapted to represent more properly the conditions of the audience that will use the educational materials. Trial versions of the illustration based educational materials were evaluated in El Salvador. The levels of understanding of the message being transmitted by the illustrations, as well as each illustration (e.g., color, size, level of detail), were evaluated.
520 $a The main advantage of using an irrigation ontology to model and manage irrigation and water management information is that the content can be separated from the format, meaning that the same content can be presented in multiple formats like web pages, printed text, presentations, or PDF files.
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