[LIS-Forum] Report of Informatics Endowment Lecture Series - 7

[amrutraj benhal]

*Report of Informatics Endowment Lecture Series - 7 *



Organizing the 7th Informatics Endowment Lecture Series on the 10th of
February was a pleasant coincident with Informatics itself completing 30
years of its existence in the information business. The alma mater of N V
Satyanarayana was very proud to hold this lecture series by Prof. Ramani who
was at the University of Mysore, to deliver INFORMATICS ENDOWMENT LECTURE
SERIES ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – 7 on *Structured Information and Information
Technology*. He started his lecture with a quote;

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing! Jimmy
Wales”.

He started his lecture with a remark about the volume of information that is
being produced and the developments that are taken place in IT- Hardware,
Software and Information Content. He dealt with several aspects relating to
available web content forms and its economics. He gave a live demonstration
of the results of a search that can be carried out on Google taking simple
examples from E- Commerce and created curiosity among the audience regarding
the accuracy of the information search and retrieval over the Web. He also
touched on Web 2.0 movement and structured information and its
potentialities and usability. He emphasized that there is ample scope for
LIS professionals in facilitating information search and creating value
added content and services. He was relating the present day Web Browsing to
Browsing of books in a library. He was of the opinion that the structured
data, tables, schemas help in collating information which is scattered over
the Web. He was also of the view that the Semantic Web has not provided
possible solution for the problem of accessing web content.

The lecture was well attended by professionals from Bangalore, Mangalore,
Mysore and the current batch of students and research scholars of the
Department. A special thanks to Dr. K N Prasad, Executive Director, Dr. I R
N Gouder, and Sri. V. L. Kalyan.

Prof. Khaiser Nikam welcomed the gathering and introduced the speaker, Dr.
N. S. Harinarayana spoke about INFORMATICS and the ENDOWMENT LECTURE SERIES.
Dr. K N Prasad was invited to present the engraved Silver Plaque to Prof.
Ramani. And Dr. M. Chandrashekhara proposed vote of thanks. Dr. Adithya
Kumari was the MC.




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Amrutraj Benahal
Project Fellow, UGC MRP

University of Mysore,

Mysore

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