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Welcome to Gnowledge Portal

by Nagarjuna G. — last modified 2008-05-25 11:57
Contributors: Nagarjuna G.
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2004,2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Nagarjuna G, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire resource is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.

Gnowledge is that part of published knowledge which has no restrictions in sharing, except the restriction that it remains shareable forever. Gnowledge therefore is in contrast to proprietary knowledge. A published resource can be called proprietary, if its distribution is restricted by some person or an agency that has the sole right to use or distribute.

This page gives a brief introduction to what you can do at this portal.  This is a collection of several web applications for teachers, students and any interested lay person.  Use the main tabs to explore the various applicatiions. You can register as a user and begin contributing.

Alert! If you are an old user at gnowledge.org, we have a good news as well as a bad news. The good news is that we have now added a new, more sophisticated collaborative authoring system for building courses on line. The bad news is that, it will take us a few weeks to port your contributions made using the gnowledge organizer, and gnow cart. All the learning tracks that were made will be soon uploaded in to the course builder without any loss. Your account information will also be preserved. If there is any problem in migrating, we will inform you. Sorry for the inconvenience.

  • About: To know about this project, philosophy, and why we are doing this, please read the articles in this section.  Briefly, on this site we publish and provide applications to build free knowledge using free software.
  • Build Courses: If you are a teacher, or an author or a translator interested in making good quality courses in any language and on any subject, use the tab "Build Courses on line".
  • Wikipedia: A snapshot of pages from wikipedia harvested for distribution at remote schools without network.  If you have a remote school please write to us, using the contact link above.  We will send you a DVD containing most of this site for accessing free knowledge off line.
  • Courses on Free Software:  Our lab is a partner of an international project to build a collaborative authoring system called SELF Platform.  This link will take you the portal where you will find several courses on free software and open standard being built by several participants across the world in different language.  If you wish to write a course or contribute in some way on this topic, please visit SELF Platform.  To know more about the project visit SELF Project website.  These links will take you away from the portal in a new window.
  • Wordnet: A web version of English thesaurus built using GNOWSYS. 
  • GNOWSYS: Gnowledge Networking and Organizing SYStem is a collaborative knowledge base used in making this portal as well as the SELF Platform. You can learn more about it from the 'GNOWSYS' tab.

We invite the entire community to contribute to build useful resources for education. Please send you suggestions and feedback using the contact link above. 

 The knowledge published at this portal is free (as in freedom) knowledge, and is published under a copyleft license.