November 2003 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

list of Audio visual resource suppliers
by Mailing List Manager 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:03:07 GMT From: sainul(a)iiitmk.ac.in Dear Professional friends, This has reference to Dr Kumbar's Request for Audio Visual Resource Suppliers. IIT Kharagpur and IIT Delhi produce Video lectures in various Subjects. These are available in VHS Cassettes and CD form. Contact Address : Dr. Bani Bhattacharya Centre for Educational Technology, Kharagpur – 721302 e-mail : banib(a)cet.iitkgp.ernet.in Prof. Kushal Sen, Head, Educational Technology Service Centre IIT Delhi New Delhi - 16, http://www.iitd.ac.in/centres/etsc/mbp.html With regards Sainul Abideen P Librarian IIITM-K, Trivandrum http://sainul.tripod.com This Mail has been sent from: ________________________________________________________________________ Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala, Park Centre, Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 581. Kerala. India. Contact: Website: http://www.iiitmk.ac.in Phone: +91-471-2527567 / 3091334 Fax: +91-471-2527568 ________________________________________________________________________ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and /or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error,please contact the sender and delete the material from anycomputer.

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Database of Indian LIS Professionals
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Good, So we there is a concensus that a Single Master Database may be build up for Indian LIS professionals. Now let us proceed further and answer the following questions: 1. What is the AIM? and to whom it would benefit? 2. What information would it contain, and what would be the data elements of the database? 3. Are INFLIBNET and INFOLIBRARIAN ready to give their data? If yes, then are their databases compatible? Do they have common structure? 3a. I Remember ILA had similar effort, what is the present status, can some one check out? Can we integrate that data also? 4. How its utility would be better then a discuss group like LIS-FORUM? 5. What are the factors of success/failure of exisitng similiar efforts. What lessions / best practices we can learn from the exiting initiative. How would this knowledge would help us in our proposed initiative? 6. Who will own the data? I think, we would be able to develop and achieve our proposed database of LIS Professionals in much better and scientific manner after answering the above questions. Let me now forget to thank Prof Shalini's offer to host the database. ----NOTE-----:) I AM FOR SUCH A DATABASE AND NOT AGAINST IT. I AM WILLING TO OFFER MY IDEAS(?) IN DATABASE DESIGN, HOSTING AND USER INTERFACE. Regards Sukhdev Singh >From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] concrete steps >Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:59:37 +0530 (IST) > >Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:33:38 +0530 >From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> > >Excellent. I think this is the first time in the history of lis-forum >that such a creative discussion has taken place. Prof. Shalini's offer is >an excellent example of professionalism. I feel that this forum is >getting more mature now. Mr Prafulla's proposal has great potential for >the advancement of library profession in India. Duplication must be >avoided and there should be only one comprehensive reference window for >this kind. INFLIBNET and INFOLIBRARIAN's databases need to be integrated >into one master database. This work should be done at different levels. >Possibly INFLIBNET could work on librarians' database and Prof Shalini's >on teachers and students and others on suppliers, etc. > >Regards, > >Aman Kumar Jha >Librarian >CII > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum _________________________________________________________________ He's the fastest Indian.He's Narain Karthikeyan. http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/tataracing/index.asp Will he make it to F1?

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Request for list of Audio visual resource suppliers
by Mailing List Manager 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

From: ts_kumbar <ts_kumbar(a)da-iict.org> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 16:47:43 Dear Professionals, After serving five fruitful and eventful years at INFLIBNET, I joined Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology ( University now), at Gandhinagar at the end of February 2003. My major responsibility at this new Institute is to setup a state-of-the-art library and information facilities and serve the community effectively. Being just two years old Institute, we are in the process of building the core collection ( in all formats) of books, journals, CDs, DVDs, Video cassettes and other reading materials in the areas of ICT to support our academic and research activities. We are currently in the process of selecting a panel of efficient and reliable agencies for the supply of educational resources that come in the form of CDs, VCDs, DVDs, Video cassettes etc. I would therefore appreciate, if you could kindly help me by providing the names (with contact address details) of some of the good suppliers for these materials that you have come across or dealt with. With kind regards Kumbar ============================================= Dr. T S Kumbar Resource Centre DA-IICT- Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology Near Indroda Circle Gandhinagar 382 009 Gujarat State, India http://www.da-iict.org Tel. 079-30510550 Fax. 079- 30520010

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workshop on semantic web
by Mailing List Manager 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:19:32 +0530 (IST) From: DRTC General <drtc(a)isibang.ac.in> DRTC Workshop on SEMANTIC WEB 8th - 10th December, 2003 Organised by Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore 560059 http://drtc.isibang.ac.in Semantic web, as the name suggests, is an attempt to make the chaotic World Wide Web (WWW) meaningful. Robots of web search engines can not collect information about the content of documents from the web pages (HTML pages), as a HTML tags provide no semantic clues about the content of the document. This leads to noise in indexing. One solution is providing meaning to web content by adding metadata. Semantic web is based on Resource Description Frame work (RDF) using eXtensible Markup Language (XML) for syntax and Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) as a naming convention.. DRTC announces a 3 day workshop focusing on the various standards and Request For Comments (RFC) to enable library and information professionals in creating semantic web. The workshop will emphasize on comprehensive theory and practice. Themes: * Semantic Web: Overview * Metadata * Automatic Extraction of Metadata Using a Context Thesaurus * Mobile Access to the Semantic Web * Metadata for Learning Objects on the Web * Retrieval in Indian Languages * RDF * XML * Web Ontology and Taxonomy * OWL (Web Ontology Language) * Naming Conventions URI, URN, etc Resource Persons: Experts from Dalhousie University, Canada and University of Hyderabad, DRTC faculty. As we plan an intensive training, we are limiting the number of participants to 25, selected on first-cum-first basis I.K. Ravichandra Rao Head, DRTC

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request for grammar book details
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Dear All: Dear All: I am searching for the name of the publisher and author of a book titled: The Complete English Grammar The author is well known in the USA for his TV series on English grammar wherein he answers viewers' questions. This book has been reprinted by one of the publishers in New Delhi and is priced at Rs.125. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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