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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1 Announcement of Gokhale Institute's OPAC on the Web
by Jai Haravu 01 Oct '04
by Jai Haravu 01 Oct '04
01 Oct '04
While congratulating the Gokhale Inst. for putting their library catalogue
on the web, I must also express my disappointment that it looks like only
the Institute's authorized users can search the OPAC. I think the Institute
has such a rich collection of material that it should allow other scholars
to at least search its collection and know if a particular publication is
available or not. The whole purpose of putting a library's catalogue on the
web is defeated if this is not done.
L J Haravu
Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management
[http://www.kiikm.org/]
69 Krishnapuri Colony
West Marredpally
Sedcunderabad 500 026
Tel: 91-40-27803947
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1. RE: Request for Information (Monali Panchbhai)
2. Announcement (N Murali)
3. Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria,
Bangalore-Report (Shalini R. Urs)
4. FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
(Subbiah Arunachalam)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:46:50 +0000
From: "Monali Panchbhai" <monalipanchbhai(a)hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information
To: ikishore(a)rediffmail.com, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
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Dear Member,
The facility to restrict copy/paste/print is available through the Latest
Acrobat-PDF 6.0 version.
You have to save that document with secutiry option which gives you the
facility of the restricting diff. types of rights.
Try doing
Document ---> Security ---> Restrict opening & editing --->
then set password and select the options for restriciting the rights.
Regards,
Monali Panchbhai
Librarian,
J V Gokal & Com.
Mumbai.
>From: "Kishore Ingale" <ikishore(a)rediffmail.com>
>Reply-To: Kishore Ingale <ikishore(a)rediffmail.com>
>To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
>Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information
>Date: 30 Sep 2004 04:34:30 -0000
>
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>We are experimenting with providing access to our digital documents to
users through web based server (using Greenstone). Collection mostly include
MS WORD and PDF documents.
>
>Is it possible to implement security with which users will be able to view
documents but not able to download / save these files at their end.. ?
>
>Kishore Ingale
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:01:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: N Murali <murali_dhara(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Announcement
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2004 15:07:39 +0100
From: Prabhash Rath <prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in>
Subject: Announcement
Please distribute this message to Lis-forum
Dear professionals,
We are happy to inform you that the Gokhale
Institute Library has successfully developed the
bibliographic database of its entire collection
which may be accessed through the following site:
http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html
Gokhale Library might be the first to put up
bibliographic details of its entire collection on
the Web under the INFLIBNET automation programme
(1st Oct. 1999 to 30th Sept. 2004).
A P Gadre
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:42:27 +0530 (IST)
From: "Shalini R. Urs" <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in>
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria,
Bangalore-Report
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UNESCO Interactive Workshop on eBooks, Hotel Atria, Bangalore September
16, 2004 (http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook).
----------
Envisioning the potential of eBooks in promoting and supporting
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based- student centred
learning, UNESCO is engaged in a project on developing guidelines for
eBooks. The mission of this project is to carry out a scoping and
exploratory study of the eBooks and develop guidelines for the production,
promotion and usage of eBooks. This consultancy project involved three
phases- desk top research; questionnaire based user study and an
Interactive Workshop The Interactive Workshop on eBooks, was organised on
September 16, 2004 and held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore.
The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr.S.Ramakrishanan, Executive Director,
C-DAC, Pune. Dr. Lucy A Tedd of University of Wales gave the keynote and
Dr.Susanne Ornager, Advisor, Communication and Information for Asia and
the Pacific, UNESCO, New Delhi chaired the session.
The invitation only Workshop was an important milestone in the Project,
with more than seventy participants representing the diverse stakeholders
community. There were forty three information professionals; twenty four
end users and technologists; and six from the publishing/aggregator
industry in the Workshop, engaged in interacting, deliberating and
debating on the gamut of issues- from definitions to design to delivery
mechanisms. The format of the Workshop was designed to be interactive with
each session having speakers and a moderator to lead the discussions with
a set of issues/questions.
The inaugural session was followed by three sessions- user and technology
perspective; author and publisher perspective; and aggregator and library
perspective. Prof. R.Kalyana Krishnan of IIT, Chennai, Prof.G.Misra of
Indian Statistical Institute, Mr.Sanjiv Goswami of Springer,
N.V.Sathyanarayana of Informatics India, Dr.Primalini Kukanesan of
National Library of Malaysia and Dr. Deepali Talagala of Sri Lanka Library
Association were the speakers at these sessions. The three sessions were
moderated by Mr. Anand T. Byrappa of GE, Prof. I.K.Ravichandra Rao of
Indian Statistical Institute and Dr.Venkadesan of Indian Institute of
Science respectively. There were product presentations by John Wiley and
Springer.
The Workshop objective of gaining insights from different perspective was
achieved and the interactions helped in drawing meaningful conclusions
and providing the necessary inputs for the drafting of framework for the
guidelines document.
For more detailed report, presentations and details of the Project visit
the website http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------
Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Director
Information and Communication Division
&
Professor and Chairperson
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Mysore
Mysore-570006
India
Tele:91-821-2514699
Fax :91-821-2519209
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:33:48 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in>
Subject: [LIS-Forum] FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
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Friends:
Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find
it interesting and useful. Best wishes.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/
The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a
keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising
a one-hour talk in 30 minutes, Berners-Lee gave an animated,
rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes --
about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative.
Berners-Lees early remarks focused on his development of the Web.
Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass
of things being developed on the Internet, including protocols such as
TCP/IP and other standards. All I had to do on top of that to create
the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was
rather arrogant
. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web
and the idea was
that it would minimally constraining. And HTML, the language he created
to drive the Web, would be the cloth on which a tapestry would be made
the jewels, the colors
Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions
between them, whats come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come
and gone, new ways of thinking and more recently, wikis and blogs.
The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a
place where we can all meet and read and write
. Collaborative things
are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows
theyre [embracing] its creative side.
But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he
would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Webs
fundamental design, but for various reasons it didnt make the cut. One
thing I wanted to put in the original design was the typing of links,
he said. For example, lets say you link your website to another site.
At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little
information: just an address to get to the other websites content. But
Berners-Lees idea was to include metadata with each hyperlink to
describe <I>the relationship</I> between the two sites. For example: do
the people linking their two websites know each other personally,
professionally, or not at all? If theyre colleagues, how are they
working together, and in what fields? Where are they working?
When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may
mean, but a machine doesnt, he said. But this idea of embedding large
amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didnt make it into the
original Web standard. Now, hes trying to change that, with an
initiative called the Semantic Web.
The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web, Berners-Lee
said. As the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/">World Wide Web
Consortium</a> explains, The Web can reach its full potential only if
it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated
tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs
must be able to share and process data even when these programs have
been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the
idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can
be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation,
integration and reuse of data across various applications.
For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in
ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in
traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I
would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color
should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldnt
do this. Rather, youd tell the website to go to a URL that
<I>defines</I> a universal standard of what that color looks like. So
instead of coding a webpage to say Color=Red, youd say something like
Color=http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 and your
website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This
would hold true for all data you include in your website: color,
people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs
containing descriptive information about that data. Information would
not be static or absolute; instead its an abstract concept that gets
sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it.
An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons
initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying
how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has
created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a
persons content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes,
can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owners permission,
etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their
license with different combinations of these elements. When a content
publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their
website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their sites HTML that
refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection
of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such
as the contents redistribution policy. So when search engines and other
automated tools pick up that bloggers website, theyll access these
URLs and understand your copyright policy as you intended it.
Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. The Web is
a tangle, your life is a tangle get used to it.
Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online
information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they
share. Thats what its all about connecting things, he said. The
Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online
translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts
of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a
real-world example. Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus
breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases,
he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier.
Its also helping build powerful social networking tools --
friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about
themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this
information. Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of
this stuff, Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the
Web and find what were looking for based on what they know about our
needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. A
human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned, he joked.
Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on
royalty-free technical standards. Standards must be royalty free to
foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. It is very
important that we make sure we are not tripped up by proprietary
standards, he said. With so many ridiculous patents out there, theres
always the threat that an underwater patent will torpedo innovation.
Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience,
moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe.
Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a play project that his bosses
at Switzerlands CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The
structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working
independently, influenced the structure of the Web. Because it was a
lab, it acted more like a web in itself, so coming up with a virtual
web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of
sense.
Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet
discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by
fellow scientists. Hypertext wasnt considered real computing, so I
sent it out to alternative news groups, he said. Some people like the
University of Illinois Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with
it; he went on to found Netscape.
Others were less supportive because they didnt like the technical
structure behind it. Why do I have to use your horrible angle
brackets? they would say to him.
Do you remember the names of these people? Metcalfe asked rather
mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question.
Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didnt patent the
standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. Some
people have said, Isnt it a shame all these commercial things came
about? he noted. But most people wanted a commercial browser. The
private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and
academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the
adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted.
Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in
popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started
playing with Mozillas new open source Firefox browser as well.
Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the
years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of
contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make
all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving
consensus in distributed group projects. If you take little groups,
they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups
together, they dont share their ideas, and have different values
towards how things should be built
. This takes a lot more energy than
figuring out how to do it yourself
. Making consensus, communicating
with other people is hard work.
I had the luxury to do this myself
with nobody there to object, he
continued. But now were doing things
where there are lot of people
interested in getting involved.
If you want to do something, do it
yourself.
As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on
the Web as an educational tool. Id like to see lots of curricula like
the <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html">MIT Open Courseware
initiative</a> being picked up by K-12, he said. The tricky thing is
that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like
Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as The Font of All Knowledge).
You really need to keep education materials sown together. So Id love
to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D,
following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts
to keep these things up to date, but Id [even] like to see teachers
help contribute to it.
Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with
simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other, he
concluded. And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots
of technology
Theres lots of work to do out there.
--
--------------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/
--------------------------------------
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FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
Friends:
Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find
it interesting and useful. Best wishes.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject
org/andy/blog/
The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a
keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising
a one-hour talk in 30 minutes, Berners-Lee gave an animated,
rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes --
about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative.
Berners-Lees early remarks focused on his development of the Web.
Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass
of things being developed on the Internet, including protocols such as
TCP/IP and other standards. All I had to do on top of that to create
the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was
rather arrogant
. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web
and the idea was
that it would minimally constraining. And HTML, the language he created
to drive the Web, would be the cloth on which a tapestry would be made
the jewels, the colors
Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions
between them, whats come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come
and gone, new ways of thinking and more recently, wikis and blogs.
The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a
place where we can all meet and read and write
. Collaborative things
are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows
theyre [embracing] its creative side.
But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he
would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Webs
fundamental design, but for various reasons it didnt make the cut. One
thing I wanted to put in the original design was the typing of links,
he said. For example, lets say you link your website to another site.
At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little
information: just an address to get to the other websites content. But
Berners-Lees idea was to include metadata with each hyperlink to
describe <I>the relationship</I> between the two sites. For example: do
the people linking their two websites know each other personally,
professionally, or not at all? If theyre colleagues, how are they
working together, and in what fields? Where are they working?
When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may
mean, but a machine doesnt, he said. But this idea of embedding large
amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didnt make it into the
original Web standard. Now, hes trying to change that, with an
initiative called the Semantic Web.
The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web, Berners-Lee
said. As the <a href=" http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3
org/2001/sw/
">World Wide Web
Consortium</a> explains, The Web can reach its full potential only if
it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated
tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs
must be able to share and process data even when these programs have
been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the
idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can
be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation,
integration and reuse of data across various applications.
For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in
ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in
traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I
would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color
should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldnt
do this. Rather, youd tell the website to go to a URL that
<I>defines</I> a universal standard of what that color looks like. So
instead of coding a webpage to say Color=Red, youd say something like
Color= http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2
http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2
and your
website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This
would hold true for all data you include in your website: color,
people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs
containing descriptive information about that data. Information would
not be static or absolute; instead its an abstract concept that gets
sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it.
An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons
initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying
how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has
created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a
persons content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes,
can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owners permission,
etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their
license with different combinations of these elements. When a content
publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their
website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their sites HTML that
refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection
of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such
as the contents redistribution policy. So when search engines and other
automated tools pick up that bloggers website, theyll access these
URLs and understand your copyright policy as you intended it.
Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. The Web is
a tangle, your life is a tangle get used to it.
Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online
information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they
share. Thats what its all about connecting things, he said. The
Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online
translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts
of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a
real-world example. Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus
breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases,
he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier.
Its also helping build powerful social networking tools --
friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about
themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this
information. Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of
this stuff, Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the
Web and find what were looking for based on what they know about our
needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. A
human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned, he joked.
Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on
royalty-free technical standards. Standards must be royalty free to
foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. It is very
important that we make sure we are not tripped up by proprietary
standards, he said. With so many ridiculous patents out there, theres
always the threat that an underwater patent will torpedo innovation.
Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience,
moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe.
Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a play project that his bosses
at Switzerlands CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The
structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working
independently, influenced the structure of the Web. Because it was a
lab, it acted more like a web in itself, so coming up with a virtual
web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of
sense.
Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet
discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by
fellow scientists. Hypertext wasnt considered real computing, so I
sent it out to alternative news groups, he said. Some people like the
University of Illinois Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with
it; he went on to found Netscape.
Others were less supportive because they didnt like the technical
structure behind it. Why do I have to use your horrible angle
brackets? they would say to him.
Do you remember the names of these people? Metcalfe asked rather
mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question.
Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didnt patent the
standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. Some
people have said, Isnt it a shame all these commercial things came
about? he noted. But most people wanted a commercial browser. The
private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and
academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the
adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted.
Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in
popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started
playing with Mozillas new open source Firefox browser as well.
Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the
years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of
contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make
all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving
consensus in distributed group projects. If you take little groups,
they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups
together, they dont share their ideas, and have different values
towards how things should be built
. This takes a lot more energy than
figuring out how to do it yourself
. Making consensus, communicating
with other people is hard work.
I had the luxury to do this myself
with nobody there to object, he
continued. But now were doing things
where there are lot of people
interested in getting involved.
If you want to do something, do it
yourself.
As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on
the Web as an educational tool. Id like to see lots of curricula like
the <a href=" http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
">MIT Open Courseware
initiative</a> being picked up by K-12, he said. The tricky thing is
that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like
Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as The Font of All Knowledge).
You really need to keep education materials sown together. So Id love
to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D,
following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts
to keep these things up to date, but Id [even] like to see teachers
help contribute to it.
Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with
simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other, he
concluded. And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots
of technology
Theres lots of work to do out there.
--
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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject
org/andy/blog/
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While congratulating the Gokhale Inst. for putting their library catalogue on the web, I must also express my disappointment that it looks like only the Institute's authorized users can search the OPAC. I think the Institute has such a rich collection of material that it should allow other scholars to at least search its collection and know if a particular publication is available or not. The whole purpose of putting a library's catalogue on the web is defeated if this is not done.
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3. Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria,
Bangalore-Report (Shalini R. Urs)
4. FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:46:50 +0000
From: "Monali Panchbhai" < mailto:monalipanchbhai@hotmail.com monalipanchbhai(a)hotmail.com
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Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information
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Dear Member,
The facility to restrict copy/paste/print is available through the Latest Acrobat-PDF 6.0 version.
You have to save that document with secutiry option which gives you the facility of the restricting diff. types of rights.
Try doing
Document ---> Security ---> Restrict opening & editing --->
then set password and select the options for restriciting the rights.
Regards,
Monali Panchbhai
Librarian,
J V Gokal & Com.
Mumbai.
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>Dear Colleagues,
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>We are experimenting with providing access to our digital documents to users through web based server (using Greenstone). Collection mostly include MS WORD and PDF documents.
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>Is it possible to implement security with which users will be able to view documents but not able to download / save these files at their end.. ?
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:01:14 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [LIS-Forum] Announcement
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Subject: Announcement
Please distribute this message to Lis-forum
Dear professionals,
We are happy to inform you that the Gokhale
Institute Library has successfully developed the
bibliographic database of its entire collection
which may be accessed through the following site:
http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html
Gokhale Library might be the first to put up
bibliographic details of its entire collection on
the Web under the INFLIBNET automation programme
(1st Oct. 1999 to 30th Sept. 2004).
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:42:27 +0530 (IST)
From: "Shalini R. Urs" < mailto:shalini@vidyanidhi.org.in shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in
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Subject: [LIS-Forum] Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria,
Bangalore-Report
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UNESCO Interactive Workshop on eBooks, Hotel Atria, Bangalore September
16, 2004 ( http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook
).
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Envisioning the potential of eBooks in promoting and supporting
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based- student centred
learning, UNESCO is engaged in a project on developing guidelines for
eBooks. The mission of this project is to carry out a scoping and
exploratory study of the eBooks and develop guidelines for the production,
promotion and usage of eBooks. This consultancy project involved three
phases- desk top research; questionnaire based user study and an
Interactive Workshop The Interactive Workshop on eBooks, was organised on
September 16, 2004 and held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore.
The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr.S.Ramakrishanan, Executive Director,
C-DAC, Pune. Dr. Lucy A Tedd of University of Wales gave the keynote and
Dr.Susanne Ornager, Advisor, Communication and Information for Asia and
the Pacific, UNESCO, New Delhi chaired the session.
The invitation only Workshop was an important milestone in the Project,
with more than seventy participants representing the diverse stakeholders
community. There were forty three information professionals; twenty four
end users and technologists; and six from the publishing/aggregator
industry in the Workshop, engaged in interacting, deliberating and
debating on the gamut of issues- from definitions to design to delivery
mechanisms. The format of the Workshop was designed to be interactive with
each session having speakers and a moderator to lead the discussions with
a set of issues/questions.
The inaugural session was followed by three sessions- user and technology
perspective; author and publisher perspective; and aggregator and library
perspective. Prof. R.Kalyana Krishnan of IIT, Chennai, Prof.G.Misra of
Indian Statistical Institute, Mr.Sanjiv Goswami of Springer,
N.V.Sathyanarayana of Informatics India, Dr.Primalini Kukanesan of
National Library of Malaysia and Dr. Deepali Talagala of Sri Lanka Library
Association were the speakers at these sessions. The three sessions were
moderated by Mr. Anand T. Byrappa of GE, Prof. I.K.Ravichandra Rao of
Indian Statistical Institute and Dr.Venkadesan of Indian Institute of
Science respectively. There were product presentations by John Wiley and
Springer.
The Workshop objective of gaining insights from different perspective was
achieved and the interactions helped in drawing meaningful conclusions
and providing the necessary inputs for the drafting of framework for the
guidelines document.
For more detailed report, presentations and details of the Project visit
the website http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------ http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------
Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Director
Information and Communication Division
&
Professor and Chairperson
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Mysore
Mysore-570006
India
Tele:91-821-2514699
Fax :91-821-2519209
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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:33:48 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam < mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in arun(a)mssrf.res.in
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Subject: [LIS-Forum] FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
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Friends:
Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find
it interesting and useful. Best wishes.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/
The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a
keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising
a one-hour talk in 30 minutes, Berners-Lee gave an animated,
rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes --
about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative.
Berners-Lees early remarks focused on his development of the Web.
Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass
of things being developed on the Internet, including protocols such as
TCP/IP and other standards. All I had to do on top of that to create
the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was
rather arrogant
. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web
and the idea was
that it would minimally constraining. And HTML, the language he created
to drive the Web, would be the cloth on which a tapestry would be made
the jewels, the colors
Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions
between them, whats come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come
and gone, new ways of thinking and more recently, wikis and blogs.
The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a
place where we can all meet and read and write
. Collaborative things
are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows
theyre [embracing] its creative side.
But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he
would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Webs
fundamental design, but for various reasons it didnt make the cut. One
thing I wanted to put in the original design was the typing of links,
he said. For example, lets say you link your website to another site.
At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little
information: just an address to get to the other websites content. But
Berners-Lees idea was to include metadata with each hyperlink to
describe <I>the relationship</I> between the two sites. For example: do
the people linking their two websites know each other personally,
professionally, or not at all? If theyre colleagues, how are they
working together, and in what fields? Where are they working?
When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may
mean, but a machine doesnt, he said. But this idea of embedding large
amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didnt make it into the
original Web standard. Now, hes trying to change that, with an
initiative called the Semantic Web.
The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web, Berners-Lee
said. As the <a href=" http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
">World Wide Web
Consortium</a> explains, The Web can reach its full potential only if
it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated
tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs
must be able to share and process data even when these programs have
been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the
idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can
be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation,
integration and reuse of data across various applications.
For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in
ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in
traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I
would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color
should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldnt
do this. Rather, youd tell the website to go to a URL that
<I>defines</I> a universal standard of what that color looks like. So
instead of coding a webpage to say Color=Red, youd say something like
Color= http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2
and your
website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This
would hold true for all data you include in your website: color,
people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs
containing descriptive information about that data. Information would
not be static or absolute; instead its an abstract concept that gets
sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it.
An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons
initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying
how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has
created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a
persons content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes,
can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owners permission,
etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their
license with different combinations of these elements. When a content
publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their
website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their sites HTML that
refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection
of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such
as the contents redistribution policy. So when search engines and other
automated tools pick up that bloggers website, theyll access these
URLs and understand your copyright policy as you intended it.
Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. The Web is
a tangle, your life is a tangle get used to it.
Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online
information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they
share. Thats what its all about connecting things, he said. The
Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online
translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts
of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a
real-world example. Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus
breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases,
he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier.
Its also helping build powerful social networking tools --
friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about
themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this
information. Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of
this stuff, Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the
Web and find what were looking for based on what they know about our
needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. A
human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned, he joked.
Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on
royalty-free technical standards. Standards must be royalty free to
foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. It is very
important that we make sure we are not tripped up by proprietary
standards, he said. With so many ridiculous patents out there, theres
always the threat that an underwater patent will torpedo innovation.
Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience,
moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe.
Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a play project that his bosses
at Switzerlands CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The
structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working
independently, influenced the structure of the Web. Because it was a
lab, it acted more like a web in itself, so coming up with a virtual
web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of
sense.
Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet
discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by
fellow scientists. Hypertext wasnt considered real computing, so I
sent it out to alternative news groups, he said. Some people like the
University of Illinois Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with
it; he went on to found Netscape.
Others were less supportive because they didnt like the technical
structure behind it. Why do I have to use your horrible angle
brackets? they would say to him.
Do you remember the names of these people? Metcalfe asked rather
mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question.
Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didnt patent the
standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. Some
people have said, Isnt it a shame all these commercial things came
about? he noted. But most people wanted a commercial browser. The
private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and
academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the
adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted.
Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in
popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started
playing with Mozillas new open source Firefox browser as well.
Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the
years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of
contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make
all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving
consensus in distributed group projects. If you take little groups,
they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups
together, they dont share their ideas, and have different values
towards how things should be built
. This takes a lot more energy than
figuring out how to do it yourself
. Making consensus, communicating
with other people is hard work.
I had the luxury to do this myself
with nobody there to object, he
continued. But now were doing things
where there are lot of people
interested in getting involved.
If you want to do something, do it
yourself.
As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on
the Web as an educational tool. Id like to see lots of curricula like
the <a href=" http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
">MIT Open Courseware
initiative</a> being picked up by K-12, he said. The tricky thing is
that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like
Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as The Font of All Knowledge).
You really need to keep education materials sown together. So Id love
to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D,
following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts
to keep these things up to date, but Id [even] like to see teachers
help contribute to it.
Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with
simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other, he
concluded. And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots
of technology
Theres lots of work to do out there.
--
--------------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/
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Dear Colleagues,
Kindly bring it to the notice of interested Graduates in Library and Information Science and recommend potential candidates.
Regards
Dr. Kumbar
Resource centre
DA-IICT
Gandhinagar
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Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar. Gujarat
Dear Sir/Madam,
We take this opportunity to inform you that Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), situated at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is promoted by the Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation. It has been established on a 50-acre of land in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The Government of Gujarat has granted it the University Status under the State Act. The Institute has started functioning since August 2001 with a batch size of 240 students at Undergraduate level in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It also offers a variety of masters' and doctoral programs in ICT and allied areas.
The Institute takes young and dynamic postgraduate freshers with minimum first class in Library Science, well versed in Computer application to Library Services.Duration of Training is for a period of 10 months. However, guarantee of continued employment cannot be given. The trainees gets a fixed stipend between Rs.5000 to Rs.6000 depending on their quality etc, per month with no other facilities / benefits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting casual leave. Library is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and is open on holidays and Sundays. Selected trainees may have to work during these extended hours on rotation basis. Based on sustained and good performance the trainees can be given regular positions. The remuneration for the regular position is at par with the leading Institutions across the country.
The Institute has fully computerized Library and provides access to digital collection, catering to the needs of the Faculty/ Staff and students. Plans are on to convert this library into a complete Digital Library. Recently our library has implemented the electromagnetic technology based security system.
The interested students are requested to send in their biodata via email at ts_kumbar(a)da-iict.org and directly come to the Institute for a written test and the interview on the 18h October 2004 at 9.00am . The biodata and confirmation about attending the test and interview should reach on or before 14th October, 2004.
Yours sincerely
Executive Registrar
Dhirubhai Ambani Instiute of Information and Communication Technology
Post Bag. No.4
Near Indroda Circle
Gandhinagar 382009
Gujarat
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Dear Colleagues,
Kindly bring it to the notice of interested Graduates in Library and Information Science and recommend potential candidates.
Regards
Dr. Kumbar
Resource centre
DA-IICT
Gandhinagar
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Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar. Gujarat
Dear Sir/Madam,
We take this opportunity to inform you that Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), situated at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is promoted by the Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation. It has been established on a 50-acre of land in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The Government of Gujarat has granted it the University Status under the State Act. The Institute has started functioning since August 2001 with a batch size of 240 students at Undergraduate level in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It also offers a variety of masters’ and doctoral programs in ICT and allied areas.
The Institute takes young and dynamic postgraduate freshers with minimum first class in Library Science, well versed in Computer application to Library Services.Duration of Training is for a period of 10 months. However, guarantee of continued employment cannot be given. The trainees gets a fixed stipend between Rs.5000 to Rs.6000 depending on their quality etc, per month with no other facilities / benefits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting casual leave. Library is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and is open on holidays and Sundays. Selected trainees may have to work during these extended hours on rotation basis. Based on sustained and good performance the trainees can be given regular positions. The remuneration for the regular position is at par with the leading Institutions across the country.
The Institute has fully computerized Library and provides access to digital collection, catering to the needs of the Faculty/ Staff and students. Plans are on to convert this library into a complete Digital Library. Recently our library has implemented the electromagnetic technology based security system.
The interested students are requested to send in their biodata via email at mailto:ts_kumbar@da-iict.org ts_kumbar(a)da-iict.org
and directly come to the Institute for a written test and the interview on the
18h October 2004 at 9.00am
. The biodata and confirmation about attending the test and interview should reach on or before
14th October, 2004.
Yours sincerely
Executive Registrar
Dhirubhai Ambani Instiute of Information and Communication Technology
Post Bag. No.4
Near Indroda Circle
Gandhinagar 382009
Gujarat
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Clusty offers several different categories of search; initial search
categories include News, Web, Images, and Gossip . A Customize! tab gives
you the option to add eBay, Slashdot, or Blogs search tabs –You can also
create your own search tabs (which didn’t work in Opera but worked okay in
Mozilla); you’re given a list of available search engines and you can check
which ones you want to include in your custom tab. Nice to see resources
like Gigablast and Librarian’s Index to the Internet included here.
You can get it at http://www.clusty.com ; as you might suspect it’s in
beta.
Thanks & Regards,
Farooque Shaheen,
Sr. Executive- Information Services
Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd.
Bangalore,
Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105
Mobile-080-34007449
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Friends:
Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find
it interesting and useful. Best wishes.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/
The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a
keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising
“a one-hour talk in 30 minutes,” Berners-Lee gave an animated,
rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes --
about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative.
Berners-Lee’s early remarks focused on his development of the Web.
“Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass
of things being developed on the Internet,” including protocols such as
TCP/IP and other standards. “All I had to do on top of that to create
the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was
rather arrogant…. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web… and the idea was
that it would minimally constraining.” And HTML, the language he created
to drive the Web, would be “the cloth on which a tapestry would be made
– the jewels, the colors…”
Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions
between them, what’s come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come
and gone, new ways of thinking – and more recently, wikis and blogs.
“The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a
place where we can all meet and read and write…. Collaborative things
are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows
they’re [embracing] its creative side.”
But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he
would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Web’s
fundamental design, but for various reasons it didn’t make the cut. “One
thing I wanted to put in the original design was the ‘typing’ of links,”
he said. For example, let’s say you link your website to another site.
At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little
information: just an address to get to the other website’s content. But
Berners-Lee’s idea was to include “metadata” with each hyperlink to
describe <I>the relationship</I> between the two sites. For example: do
the people linking their two websites know each other personally,
professionally, or not at all? If they’re colleagues, how are they
working together, and in what fields? Where are they working?
“When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may
mean, but a machine doesn’t,” he said. But this idea of embedding large
amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didn’t make it into the
original Web standard. Now, he’s trying to change that, with an
initiative called the Semantic Web.
“The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web,” Berners-Lee
said. As the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/">World Wide Web
Consortium</a> explains, “The Web can reach its full potential only if
it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated
tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs
must be able to share and process data even when these programs have
been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the
idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can
be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation,
integration and reuse of data across various applications.”
For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in
ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in
traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I
would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color
should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldn’t
do this. Rather, you’d tell the website to go to a URL that
<I>defines</I> a universal standard of what that color looks like. So
instead of coding a webpage to say “Color=Red,” you’d say something like
“Color=http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2” and your
website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This
would hold true for all data you include in your website: color,
people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs
containing descriptive information about that data. Information would
not be static or absolute; instead it’s “an abstract concept” that gets
sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it.
An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons
initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying
how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has
created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a
person’s content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes,
can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owner’s permission,
etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their
license with different combinations of these elements. When a content
publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their
website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their site’s HTML that
refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection
of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such
as the content’s redistribution policy. So when search engines and other
automated tools pick up that blogger’s website, they’ll access these
URLs and “understand” your copyright policy as you intended it.
Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. “The Web is
a tangle, your life is a tangle – get used to it.”
Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online
information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they
share. “That’s what it’s all about – connecting things,” he said. The
Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online
translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts
of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a
real-world example. “Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus
breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases,”
he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier.
It’s also helping build powerful social networking tools --
friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about
themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this
information. “Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of
this stuff,” Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the
Web and find what we’re looking for based on what they know about our
needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. “A
human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned,” he joked.
Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on
royalty-free technical standards. “Standards must be royalty free” to
foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. “It is very
important that we make sure we are not tripped up” by proprietary
standards, he said. “With so many ridiculous patents out there, there’s
always the threat” that an “underwater patent will torpedo innovation.”
Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience,
moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe.
Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a “play project” that his bosses
at Switzerland’s CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The
structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working
independently, influenced the structure of the Web. “Because it was a
lab, it acted more like a web in itself,” so coming up with a virtual
web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of
sense.
Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet
discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by
fellow scientists. “Hypertext wasn’t considered ‘real’ computing, so I
sent it out to alternative news groups,” he said. Some people like the
University of Illinois’ Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with
it; he went on to found Netscape.
Others were less supportive because they didn’t like the technical
structure behind it. “Why do I have to use your horrible angle
brackets?” they would say to him.
“Do you remember the names of these people?” Metcalfe asked rather
mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question.
Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didn’t patent the
standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. “Some
people have said, ‘Isn’t it a shame all these commercial things came
about?’” he noted. “But most people wanted a commercial browser.” The
private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and
academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the
adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted.
Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in
popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started
playing with Mozilla’s new open source Firefox browser as well.
Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the
years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of
contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make
all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving
consensus in distributed group projects. “If you take little groups,
they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups
together, they don’t share their ideas, and have different values
towards how things should be built…. This takes a lot more energy than
figuring out how to do it yourself…. Making consensus, communicating
with other people is hard work.”
“I had the luxury to do this myself… with nobody there to object,” he
continued. “But now we’re doing things … where there are lot of people
interested in getting involved. … If you want to do something, do it
yourself.”
As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on
the Web as an educational tool. “I’d like to see lots of curricula like
the <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html">MIT Open Courseware
initiative</a> being picked up by K-12,” he said. “The tricky thing is
that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like
Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as “The Font of All Knowledge”).
You really need to keep education materials sown together. So I’d love
to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D,
following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts
to keep these things up to date, but I’d [even] like to see teachers
help contribute to it.”
“Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with
simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other,” he
concluded. “And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots
of technology… There’s lots of work to do out there.”
--
--------------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/
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FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
Friends:
Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find it interesting and useful. Best wishes.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/
The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a
keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising
“a one-hour talk in 30 minutes,” Berners-Lee gave an animated,
rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes --
about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative.
Berners-Lee’s early remarks focused on his development of the Web.
“Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass
of things being developed on the Internet,” including protocols such as
TCP/IP and other standards. “All I had to do on top of that to create
the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was
rather arrogant…. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web… and the idea was
that it would minimally constraining.” And HTML, the language he created
to drive the Web, would be “the cloth on which a tapestry would be made
– the jewels, the colors…”
Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions
between them, what’s come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come
and gone, new ways of thinking – and more recently, wikis and blogs.
“The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a
place where we can all meet and read and write…. Collaborative things
are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows
they’re [embracing] its creative side.”
But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he
would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Web’s
fundamental design, but for various reasons it didn’t make the cut. “One
thing I wanted to put in the original design was the ‘typing’ of links,”
he said. For example, let’s say you link your website to another site.
At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little
information: just an address to get to the other website’s content. But
Berners-Lee’s idea was to include “metadata” with each hyperlink to
describe <I>the relationship</I> between the two sites. For example: do
the people linking their two websites know each other personally,
professionally, or not at all? If they’re colleagues, how are they
working together, and in what fields? Where are they working?
“When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may
mean, but a machine doesn’t,” he said. But this idea of embedding large
amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didn’t make it into the
original Web standard. Now, he’s trying to change that, with an
initiative called the Semantic Web.
“The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web,” Berners-Lee
said. As the <a href=" http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
">World Wide Web
Consortium</a> explains, “The Web can reach its full potential only if
it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated
tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs
must be able to share and process data even when these programs have
been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the
idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can
be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation,
integration and reuse of data across various applications.”
For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in
ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in
traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I
would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color
should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldn’t
do this. Rather, you’d tell the website to go to a URL that
<I>defines</I> a universal standard of what that color looks like. So
instead of coding a webpage to say “Color=Red,” you’d say something like
“Color= http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2
” and your
website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This
would hold true for all data you include in your website: color,
people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs
containing descriptive information about that data. Information would
not be static or absolute; instead it’s “an abstract concept” that gets
sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it.
An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons
initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying
how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has
created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a
person’s content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes,
can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owner’s permission,
etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their
license with different combinations of these elements. When a content
publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their
website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their site’s HTML that
refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection
of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such
as the content’s redistribution policy. So when search engines and other
automated tools pick up that blogger’s website, they’ll access these
URLs and “understand” your copyright policy as you intended it.
Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. “The Web is
a tangle, your life is a tangle – get used to it.”
Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online
information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they
share. “That’s what it’s all about – connecting things,” he said. The
Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online
translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts
of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a
real-world example. “Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus
breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases,”
he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier.
It’s also helping build powerful social networking tools --
friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about
themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this
information. “Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of
this stuff,” Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the
Web and find what we’re looking for based on what they know about our
needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. “A
human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned,” he joked.
Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on
royalty-free technical standards. “Standards must be royalty free” to
foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. “It is very
important that we make sure we are not tripped up” by proprietary
standards, he said. “With so many ridiculous patents out there, there’s
always the threat” that an “underwater patent will torpedo innovation.”
Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience,
moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe.
Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a “play project” that his bosses
at Switzerland’s CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The
structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working
independently, influenced the structure of the Web. “Because it was a
lab, it acted more like a web in itself,” so coming up with a virtual
web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of
sense.
Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet
discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by
fellow scientists. “Hypertext wasn’t considered ‘real’ computing, so I
sent it out to alternative news groups,” he said. Some people like the
University of Illinois’ Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with
it; he went on to found Netscape.
Others were less supportive because they didn’t like the technical
structure behind it. “Why do I have to use your horrible angle
brackets?” they would say to him.
“Do you remember the names of these people?” Metcalfe asked rather
mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question.
Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didn’t patent the
standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. “Some
people have said, ‘Isn’t it a shame all these commercial things came
about?’” he noted. “But most people wanted a commercial browser.” The
private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and
academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the
adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted.
Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in
popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started
playing with Mozilla’s new open source Firefox browser as well.
Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the
years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of
contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make
all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving
consensus in distributed group projects. “If you take little groups,
they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups
together, they don’t share their ideas, and have different values
towards how things should be built…. This takes a lot more energy than
figuring out how to do it yourself…. Making consensus, communicating
with other people is hard work.”
“I had the luxury to do this myself… with nobody there to object,” he
continued. “But now we’re doing things … where there are lot of people
interested in getting involved. … If you want to do something, do it
yourself.”
As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on
the Web as an educational tool. “I’d like to see lots of curricula like
the <a href=" http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
">MIT Open Courseware
initiative</a> being picked up by K-12,” he said. “The tricky thing is
that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like
Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as “The Font of All Knowledge”).
You really need to keep education materials sown together. So I’d love
to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D,
following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts
to keep these things up to date, but I’d [even] like to see teachers
help contribute to it.”
“Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with
simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other,” he
concluded. “And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots
of technology… There’s lots of work to do out there.”
--
--------------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/
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Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Eme rging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Oct '04
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Oct '04
01 Oct '04
Friends:
I received this message today in the mail. Some of you may find the
information useful. Best wishes.
Arun
----
Subject: Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major
Trends Emerging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use
A report from USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future. Here's a snippet
from the press release:
"Among the findings from Year Four of the Digital Future Project:
* Internet access has risen to its highest level ever. About three-quarters
of Americans now go online.
* The number of hours spent online continues to increase, rising to an
average of 12.5 hours per week - the highest level in the study thus far.
* Although the Internet has become the most important source of current
information for users, the initially high level of credibility of
information on the Internet began to drop in the third year of the study,
and declined even further in Year Four.
* The number of users who believe that only about half of the information on
the Internet is accurate and reliable is growing and has now passed 40
percent of users for the first time.
* The study showed that most users trust information on the websites they
visit regularly, and on pages created by established media and the
government.
* Information pages posted by individuals have the lowest credibility: only
9.5 percent of users say information on those sites is reliable and
accurate.
* Television viewing continues to decline among Internet users, raising the
question: "What will happen as a nation that once spent an extremely large
portion of time in a passive activity (watching television) transfers
increasingly large portions of that time to an interactive activity (the
Internet)?"
Read more at:
http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTypeI
d=1http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTy
peId=1
or the tiny version:
http://tinyurl.com/54n84
(found via Instructional Technology Resources and Musings:
http://mariettatitleiii.blogspot.com/)
Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use
Friends:
I received this message today in the mail. Some of you may find the information useful. Best wishes.
Arun
----
Subject: Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major
Trends Emerging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use
A report from USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future. Here's a snippet
from the press release:
"Among the findings from Year Four of the Digital Future Project:
* Internet access has risen to its highest level ever. About three-quarters
of Americans now go online.
* The number of hours spent online continues to increase, rising to an
average of 12.5 hours per week - the highest level in the study thus far.
* Although the Internet has become the most important source of current
information for users, the initially high level of credibility of
information on the Internet began to drop in the third year of the study,
and declined even further in Year Four.
* The number of users who believe that only about half of the information on
the Internet is accurate and reliable is growing and has now passed 40
percent of users for the first time.
* The study showed that most users trust information on the websites they
visit regularly, and on pages created by established media and the
government.
* Information pages posted by individuals have the lowest credibility: only
9.5 percent of users say information on those sites is reliable and
accurate.
* Television viewing continues to decline among Internet users, raising the
question: "What will happen as a nation that once spent an extremely large
portion of time in a passive activity (watching television) transfers
increasingly large portions of that time to an interactive activity (the
Internet)?"
Read more at:
http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTypeI http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTypeI
d=1 http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTy http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTy
peId=1
or the tiny version:
http://tinyurl.com/54n84 http://tinyurl.com/54n84
(found via Instructional Technology Resources and Musings:
http://mariettatitleiii.blogspot.com/ http://mariettatitleiii.blogspot.com/
)
1
0