Title:
Knowledge-Based Agricultural Hub
Abstract: The
paper proposes an approach to transform an information based portal
into a knowledge-based hub. The study is made on the Agribazaar,
which is an information-based portal provided by the Department of
Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Agri-based Industry,
Malaysia. Basically, the portal has been developed to offer an
internet-based commerce infrastructure for buyers and sellers of
agriculture products. Agribazaar has been found to be successful
in bridging the rural connectivity between users locally and
globally. The applications has been accepted and utilized by a
substantial number of users in Malaysia and other countries as
well. However, the percentage of usage of the portal could be
increased if it is made more competitive. One way to obtain a
greater percentage of market shares is to reconstruct the portal into a
new paradigm which is known as a “knowledge-based” hub. The
transformation approach proposed involves five stages namely data
repository, metadata, knowledge-based services, application, and
security. The approach proposed aims to illustrate the use of
existing information to reconstruct and transform the information-based
portal into a knowledge-based hub. It is also intended to serve
as a model for transforming a information based portal to a
knowledge-based hub.
Authors: Faudziah Ahmad,
Norliza Katuk , Nur Haryani Zakaria, and Wan Rozaini Sheikh Osman