Saturday, March 27, 2010

Know About INDIA

1.)The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than
10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The
University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest
achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

2.)The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil
Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite. Also, this
magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD)
during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.

3.)Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun
hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. His calculations was - Time taken
by earth to orbit the sun: ( 5th century ) 365.258756484 days.

4.)The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented
the digit zero.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

agropedia Unique Search

Every website have a search feature as agropedia also have, but it is unique in itself i don't think any other website have search feature like this.
agropedia have a tag based visual search which gives tagged result and in result set it covers nodes tagged with parent,siblings and child's.

This is one of the search provided by agropedia there are so many other kind of search features.

Go and check this search feature i promise all of you found it interesting.
agropedia unique search (check it on Firefox)

Monday, February 8, 2010

agropedia/openaccess the revolution in agriculture

agropedia is a Agriculture Knowledge Repository of universal Meta models and localized content for a variety of users with appropriate interfaces Built in collaborative mode in Multiple languages.

This sounds like a slogan..

But it is like that go and check out at www.agropedia.net



The purpose of the Open Access: Agricultural Research Repository is to make full text documents visible, accessible, searchable, and useable by any potential user with access to the Internet. Searching and archiving in Open Access: Agricultural Research Repository are totally free for any user. The only requirement is that authors wishing to submit a document need to register in the system. Librarians, libraries, research institutes, organizations, and individual researchers involved in Research and related fields are encouraged to make use of and contribute to the archive.

Have a look at http://agropedia.iitk.ac.in/openaccess