[LIS-Forum] TISS-SDC Workshop on Open Source Software.

[Dr. Mallikarjun Angadi]

Dear Moderator,

Kindly circulate the following workshop announcement among the members
of the discussion forum.


Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Mumbai has organised a five day workshop on "Design and Development of
Digital Libraries Using Open Source Software" in association with
SAARC Documentation Centre, New Delhi from 14-18 December, 2009 at
TISS Main Campus.
Workshop Content:

During the workshop participants will learn how to: create
State-of-Art digital libraries using the Open Source Software, which
include software installation, configuration, customization,
digitization and other related workflow operations, content
development and management, designing and creating standard metadata
sets to describe digital objects and encoding it in standard markup
formats. At the end of the training, participants will be able to
create electronic publications with search and full text retrieval
facility, and launch digital libraries/archives of full text, image,
audio and video files accessible over the web.

Objectives:

1. Today every organization needs to develop its own Digital
Institutional Repository. The LIS professionals need training to
develop these repositories. This workshop is organized to make them
competent in using the software.
2. To familiarize participants with the concepts of digital library
and usage of Open Source Software.
3. To offer hands on experience to develop digital libraries and use
of Open Source Software like DSpace, GSDL, EPRINTS etc.
4. To offer hands on experience to install Linux OS and configuration,
customization, backup/restore of Open Source Software.
5. To encourage the participants in developing their own Institutional
Digital Libraries.

Areas Covered:

• Digital Libraries-current trends and status
• Overview of IR, DL, Indian Initiatives
• Installation of Fedora Core OS & RDBMS
• Case studies and Scope of DSpace, GSDL, etc.
• Customization, submission workflow, User customization etc .
• Various Security Levels to effect restricted access
• DSpace Administration, workflow
• Dublin Core, and open standards
• OAI-PMH
• Handles persistent identifiers to each digital object in the repository
• Unicode and Indian Languages

Target Audience:

Five day workshop is going to be attended by librarians from SAARC
countries as well as local participants from various parts of the
India. The workshop will be of immense benefit to all those involved
in developing and maintaining digital libraries . The workshop is
confined to limited number of 30 participants only. (15 participants
from SAARC countries and 15 from India)

Pedagogy:

The workshop will be conducted at the Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, Mumbai which is equipped with world class lecture rooms and
Cyber Library with 6 Mbps Internet connectivity. Each participant will
be provided a PC for practicals. The workshop comprises of lectures,
demonstration and practice on the topics mentioned above. Cyber
Library facilities are made available for practice to the participants
during extended hours. The course material and application software
will be distributed to the participants on CDs to enable them to
install, work and make use of these software in their respective
organisations.
Workshop Faculty:

The resource persons for the workshop, having wide experience on the
topics, will be drawn from NISCAIR, UGC-INFLIBNET, IITs, DRTC , IIMs,
along with experienced faculty from the TISS.

Accommodation:

Accommodation will be arranged for all the participants in the campus
Guest House and/or in the nearby Hotels.

Registration:

Registration and Boarding and Lodging for the five day workshop is
FREE for the selected participants.
Registration is on First Come First Serve Basis. However, the selected
participants will have to make their own arrangement for the travel.

For more details and to download the Registration Form, please visit
the workshop website at http://library.tiss.edu/sdcworkshop

Please mail the completed Registration Forms to:

Dr. Muttayya Koganuramath
University Librarian
Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
P. B. No. 8313,V. N. Purav Marg,
Deonar, Mumbai - 400 088.

Ph : 91-22-2552 5281 (off)
Direct : 91-22-2551 3350
Mobile : 9967570481 / 9223581494
Fax : 91-22-2552 5050
E-mail : muttayya at tiss.edu; koganuramath at rediffmail.com


With warm regards,

Dr. Mallikarjun Angadi
Information Scientist, TISS

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