2015/01/01 by Laurence Guichard, Guichard, Laurence, Ballot, Roland +10
Computer Science · #Open Source Software Innovations
paper · pdf · doi:10.17180/j016-gv96
AgroPEPS is a collaborative web tool of knowledge management focused on agro-ecology, designed for and with future and potential users of the Joint technology network for ‘innovative cropping system'.Its aims are to capitalize knowledge and experiences in order to allow several actors in agriculture to design, pilot, manage and train innovative cropping systems, which are performant economically, environmentally and socially. Nowadays, developed as a prototype, Agro-PEPS makes available 150 techniques, described and structured according to 5 issues of sustainable development (water, air, soil, fossil resources, biodiversity). To reach them, Agro-PEPS has functionalities of syntactic research by keywords and of semantic research allowing a better targeting. This tool concept finds a favorable echo in the French R&D and training system: we recorded in January 2015 about 240 000 connections on the web site since its start which was confidential due to its prototype status. However its evolution in an operational web tool remains to be formalized.