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WIKI FREES UP INTERNET PUBLISHING
by Farooque Shaheen 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Free software is about to get freer. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday his for-profit company, Wikia, is ready to give away ?for free ? all the software, computing, storage and network access that website builders need to create community collaboration sites. Wikia, a commercial counterpart to the non-profit Wikipedia, will go even further to provide customers ? bloggers or other operators who meet its criteria for popular websites ? 100% of any advertising revenue from the sites they build. Started two years ago, Wikia (http://www.wikia.com) aims to build on the anyone-can-edit success of the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia. Using the same underlying software, called MediaWiki, Wikia hosts group publishing sites, known as wikis, on topics from Star Wars to psychology to travel to iPods. ?It is open-source software and open content,? Wales said in a phone interview. ?We will be providing the computer hosting for free, and the publisher can keep the advertising revenue.? http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/780225.cms Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 Free software is about to get freer. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday his for-profit company, Wikia, is ready to give away —for free — all the software, computing, storage and network access that website builders need to create community collaboration sites. Wikia, a commercial counterpart to the non-profit Wikipedia, will go even further to provide customers — bloggers or other operators who meet its criteria for popular websites — 100% of any advertising revenue from the sites they build. Started two years ago, Wikia (http://www.wikia.com) aims to build on the anyone-can-edit success of the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia. Using the same underlying software, called MediaWiki, Wikia hosts group publishing sites, known as wikis, on topics from Star Wars to psychology to travel to iPods. “It is open-source software and open content,” Wales said in a phone interview. “We will be providing the computer hosting for free, and the publisher can keep the advertising revenue.” http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/780225.cms Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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Special Lecture on Knowledge Organization
by DRTC General 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 59 December 12, 2006 You are cordially invited to attend the following Special lecture. The lecture will be held at DRTC Class Room at the ISI Campus: Name of the Speaker: Dr. H. Peter Ohly Social Science Information Centre, Bonn, Germany & Secretary General of ISKO Topic: Future of Knowledge Organization Date and Time: 14th December 2006, 11:30 AM I.K. RAVICHANDRA RAO Professor and Head, DRTC

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Re: Open Research Metrics
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Dear Prof. McCullam: Thanks very much. Why are not chemists, biologists, and engineers follow the world's computer scientists and adopt mass civil disobedience [a concept perfected by Mahatma Gandhi]? Or why cannot scientists all over the developing world do the same? I am forwarding this to several discussion lists in India. Regards. Arun --- Andrew McCallum <mccallum(a)cs.umass.edu> wrote: > Computer Science researchers practiced mass civil > disobedience, and > simply posted their papers on their personal web > pages in violation > of the copyright. > > It became just a common practice, that the > publishers changed their > policies. > > > > On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Subbiah Arunachalam > wrote: > > Dear Prof. McCullam: > > > > Thanks very much for the quick response. Don't you > > face resistance from journal publishers and > threats > > based on copyright law when you include papers > > published in scholarly journals? > > > > Many researchers in India do not post their papers > > (full text) on to institutional archives as they > are > > not sure about what the journal publishers would > do! > > > > Best regards. > > > > Arun > > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > > > > > > > > --- Andrew McCallum <mccallum(a)CS.UMASS.EDU> wrote: > > > >> On Dec 11, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Subbiah Arunachalam > >> wrote: > >>> Dear Professor McCallum: > >>> > >>> I want to know more about Rexa and visit the > site. > >>> Please give me the url. Can we replicate Rexa > for > >>> other areas, especially chemistry, where leading > >>> journal publishers are unwilling to allow Open > >> Access? > >> > >> http://rexa.info > >> > >> If you could point me at Chemistry publications > >> sites that allow > >> spidering, I'd be happy to add them to our list. > >> > >>> What percentage of the over seven million papers > >> in > >>> Rexa are full text, are from Indian > institutions? > >> > >> Only about 300k are full text now. Getting more > in > >> there is simple > >> matter of spidering and pushing the PDFs through > our > >> pipeline. We > >> have all the infrastructure in place to do this > now, > >> and will begin a > >> major run in the coming month. > >> > >> Best wishes, > >> Andrew > >> > >> -- > >> Andrew McCallum > >> mccallum(a)cs.umass.edu > >> Associate Professor > >> www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum > >> Comp Sci Dept, UMass Amherst 413-545-1323 > (w) > >> > > > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends > http:// > > uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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SALIS-DLIS, RTM Nagpur University-UNESCO workshop on IL on 28.12.2006 at Nagpur
by Arunachalam Hariharan 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Dear friends and professional colleagues, I am pleased to inform that One Day Sensitization Workshop on Information Literacy (IL) is jointly being organized by the Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) and Dept of Library and Information Science, R.T.M. Nagpur University, Nagpur, supported by UNESCO, on December 28, 2006. Venue: DLIS, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur The contents of the workshop are: Information Literacy Overview Components of IL Information Literacy Models Information Literacy Competency Standards UNESCO/IFLA School/Public Library Manifesto ICT Literacy and ICT Technologies Objectives of Workshop: To raise awareness about Information Literacy, its needs and uses To give an overview of Information Literacy, Information Literacy models and standards to LIS professionals To give an overview of ICT to the participants To facilitate LIS professionals to provide better information services to the end users Methodology: Lectures/Presentations Tutorials Discussions Resource Persons: Experts from reputed academic institutions, Govt. and IT field. Target Participants: LIS professional working in Nagpur and near by regions/states Preference will be given to young LIS professionals and students. No. of Participants: The number of participants is limited to 60. Mode of selection: The participants will be selected on the basis of age, qualification, nature of work, profile of the institutions etc. Registration Fee: NIL Traveling Allowance (TA): No TA/DA will be paid to the participants Last date for registration: December 23, 2006. More details of the Workshop can be available at http://autolib-india.net/salis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Salis_info Completed registration form can be sent to: Dr. (Mrs) D. Rajyalakshmi Workshop Convener & HOD, DLISc Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur 440 010. E-mail : rldesaraju(a)rediffmail.com Phone :- 0712 2548577 ------------------------------------------------- A.Hariharan SALIS A.Hariharan Structural Engineering Research Centre CSIR Campus Taramani Chennai - 600 113 hariharan_ah(a)yahoo.com Cell: 9841601901 Off:044-22549133 -------------------------------------------------- SALIS B2-Solai Apatments Mount-Poonamallee Road (opp.to.MGR Garden) Chennai - 600 116 Tel: 044-22522448/42014772 www.autolib-india.net/salis ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com

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Training cum Apprenticeship Programme for the freshers, DVK library, Bangalore
by alex arun 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Greetings from DVK central Library, Bangalore! We are happy to inform you that we are conducting a One Year Library Training cum Apprenticeship Programme for the freshers of library and information science. It is a unique formation to the modern librarianship. Interested candidates can send their resume on or before 31st December 2006 . for more details email to: dvklibrary(a)yahoo.com Fr. John Neelankavil CMI Chief Librarian DVK Central Library Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram Dharmaram College Post Bangalore 560 029 Ph:080-41116350, 41116353 --- lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote: > Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > visit > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > or, via email, send a message with subject or body > 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it > is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Software tools in seven Indian languages > (Mailing List Manager) > 2. Microsoft's Office Open XML format becomes a > standard > (Farooque Shaheen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:47:48 +0530 (IST) > From: Mailing List Manager > <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Software tools in seven Indian > languages > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612081245160.31912(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; > format=flowed > > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:37:24 +0530 > From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> > > CDAC to launch software tools in seven Indian > languages > Sapna Agarwal / Mumbai/ Pune=A0December 07, 2006 > The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing > (CDAC) is all set to launc= > h software tools in Punjabi, Marathi, Malyalam, > Kannada, Assamese, Bengali = > and Oriya by March 2007. > =A0 > The company had launched Hindi, Tamil, Telgu and > Urdu regional language sof= > tware tools in 2005. > =A0 > =93The new software incorporates customer > requirements for a localised vers= > ion of open source software for email client, multi > protocol messenger, bro= > wser and office suite besides a content management > tool. It contains the st= > andard key board drivers, text speech and converters > to change from true ty= > pe to open type fonts. A new feature called queters, > a =91Do It Yourself=92= > software kit to increase speed of typing, has been > introduced and even the= > terminology is a mix of layman and purists, as > against only purists termin= > ology,=94 said S Ramakrishnan, director general, > CDAC. > =A0 > Mahesh Kulkarni, group coordinator,CDAC, Graphics > and Intelligence-based Sc= > ript Technology (GIST), said, =93The launch date was > advanced from the firs= > t quarter of 2006 to 2007 to incorporate user > feedback in making the softwa= > re more user friendly.=94 GIST is a technology that > facilitates the use of = > Indian languages in IT. > =A0 > The regional language software development > initiative comes under the Techn= > ology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) > project of Department of Info= > rmation Technology (DIT), Government of India under > which CDAC is an aggreg= > ator bringing together the work of different > organisations under one umbrel= > la. > =A0 > It is working with CK Technology, Modular Infotech, > The Indian Institutes o= > f Technology=92s (IITs) Kanpur, Kharagpur and > Mumbai, Microsoft, Google and= > IBM. > =A0 > CDAC is a part of a nation wide consortium of 25 > institutions for undertaki= > ng R&D in regional languages. The consortium is > working on four projects re= > lated to regional text translation and recognition. > =A0 > =93We are in advanced stages of development on these > technologies,=94 said = > Ramakrishnan adding that they have accelerated their > focus on developing th= > ese technologies this year. > =A0 > Ramakrishnan hopes to bag a Rs 8 crore project for > voice-based multi lingua= > l information access (V-MIA) railway reservation > system. > =A0 > =93The project is in the final stages of approval by > the DIT and Department= > of Science and Technology and we will work in a > consortium with other inst= > itutions to develop the voice-to-voice information > access system for the ra= > ilways,=94 he said. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:47:17 +0530 > From: Farooque Shaheen > <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Microsoft's Office Open XML > format becomes a > standard > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > > <OF416C1750.F9FA76B9-ON6525723E.0027E80B-6525723E.0028560A(a)caritor.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > At the general assembly of Ecma International in > Zurich, Switzerland, > Microsoft's Office Open XML--a set of specifications > detailing the > document formats in Microsoft's office--was > certified as a standard. > > In addition, the membership-based standards > organization voted to propose > Office Open XML to the larger International > Organization for > Standardization (known as ISO) for standards > approval through its > fast-track process. > > These document formats are the default for Office > 2007, an upgrade to > Microsoft's productivity suite that was released to > businesses late last > month and expected to be available to consumers next > January. > > http://news.com.com/Microsoft+sails+through+document+standard+vote/2100-101… > > Thanks & Regards, > Farooque Shaheen, > Caritor India Pvt Ltd. > Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 > VOIP- 40366 >

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Special Lectures at DRTC
by DRTC General 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 59 You are cordially invited to attend the following Special lectures. The lectures will be held at DRTC Class Room at the ISI Campus: Name of the Speaker: Dr. Hildrun Kretschmer COLLNET, Berlin Humboldt University Berlin and Dalian University of Technology, China Topics: An Overview of Social Network Date and Time: 12th December 06 at 2:00 PM Topics: A Well-ordered Distribution of Co-authorship Date and Time: 14th December 06 at 2:00 PM I.K. RAVICHANDRA RAO Professor and Head, DRTC

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Job Opening for MLIS/Post Graduates
by jyothi 09 Dec '06

09 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Twenty-six years old Information based Public Limited company located in Jayanagar, Bangalore is looking out for an experienced MLIS/Post Graduate up to the age of 50 with exposure to producing/or using online information products. The candidate should be comfortable with production related software applications and be capable of managing a production team of 30 members. CTC will be around Rs. 2 -2.5 lakhs. Interested may send their C.V. to: <mailto:kss.subbarao@gmail.com> kss.subbarao(a)gmail.com Regards Jothy Dear Friends, Twenty-six years old Information based Public Limited company located in Jayanagar, Bangalore is looking out for an experienced MLIS/Post Graduate up to the age of 50 with exposure to producing/or using online information products. The candidate should be comfortable with production related software applications and be capable of managing a production team of 30 members. CTC will be around Rs. 2 -2.5 lakh s . Interested may send their C.V. to : mailto:kss.subbarao@gmail.com kss.subbarao(a)gmail.com Regards Jothy

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Software tools in seven Indian languages
by Mailing List Manager 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:37:24 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> CDAC to launch software tools in seven Indian languages Sapna Agarwal / Mumbai/ Pune=A0December 07, 2006 The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) is all set to launc= h software tools in Punjabi, Marathi, Malyalam, Kannada, Assamese, Bengali = and Oriya by March 2007. =A0 The company had launched Hindi, Tamil, Telgu and Urdu regional language sof= tware tools in 2005. =A0 =93The new software incorporates customer requirements for a localised vers= ion of open source software for email client, multi protocol messenger, bro= wser and office suite besides a content management tool. It contains the st= andard key board drivers, text speech and converters to change from true ty= pe to open type fonts. A new feature called queters, a =91Do It Yourself=92= software kit to increase speed of typing, has been introduced and even the= terminology is a mix of layman and purists, as against only purists termin= ology,=94 said S Ramakrishnan, director general, CDAC. =A0 Mahesh Kulkarni, group coordinator,CDAC, Graphics and Intelligence-based Sc= ript Technology (GIST), said, =93The launch date was advanced from the firs= t quarter of 2006 to 2007 to incorporate user feedback in making the softwa= re more user friendly.=94 GIST is a technology that facilitates the use of = Indian languages in IT. =A0 The regional language software development initiative comes under the Techn= ology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) project of Department of Info= rmation Technology (DIT), Government of India under which CDAC is an aggreg= ator bringing together the work of different organisations under one umbrel= la. =A0 It is working with CK Technology, Modular Infotech, The Indian Institutes o= f Technology=92s (IITs) Kanpur, Kharagpur and Mumbai, Microsoft, Google and= IBM. =A0 CDAC is a part of a nation wide consortium of 25 institutions for undertaki= ng R&D in regional languages. The consortium is working on four projects re= lated to regional text translation and recognition. =A0 =93We are in advanced stages of development on these technologies,=94 said = Ramakrishnan adding that they have accelerated their focus on developing th= ese technologies this year. =A0 Ramakrishnan hopes to bag a Rs 8 crore project for voice-based multi lingua= l information access (V-MIA) railway reservation system. =A0 =93The project is in the final stages of approval by the DIT and Department= of Science and Technology and we will work in a consortium with other inst= itutions to develop the voice-to-voice information access system for the ra= ilways,=94 he said.

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Microsoft's Office Open XML format becomes a standard
by Farooque Shaheen 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

At the general assembly of Ecma International in Zurich, Switzerland, Microsoft's Office Open XML--a set of specifications detailing the document formats in Microsoft's office--was certified as a standard. In addition, the membership-based standards organization voted to propose Office Open XML to the larger International Organization for Standardization (known as ISO) for standards approval through its fast-track process. These document formats are the default for Office 2007, an upgrade to Microsoft's productivity suite that was released to businesses late last month and expected to be available to consumers next January. http://news.com.com/Microsoft+sails+through+document+standard+vote/2100-101… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 At the general assembly of Ecma International in Zurich, Switzerland, Microsoft's Office Open XML--a set of specifications detailing the document formats in Microsoft's office--was certified as a standard. In addition, the membership-based standards organization voted to propose Office Open XML to the larger International Organization for Standardization (known as ISO) for standards approval through its fast-track process. These document formats are the default for Office 2007, an upgrade to Microsoft's productivity suite that was released to businesses late last month and expected to be available to consumers next January. http://news.com.com/Microsoft+sails+through+document+standard+vote/2100-101… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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Journals, copyright and open access archiving
by Mailing List Manager 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:15:11 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a message I received from another list. It tells you about the diff= iculties faced by developing country librarians who want to bring the compl= ete works of great scientists into public domain through open access reposi= tories. Surprisingly, some publishers - in this case Taylor & Francis - are= unwilling to grant permission to place papers published in their journals = several decades ago in an institutional open access archive. While one may = find a way out and get these papers accessible to anyone who wants to read = them, the true face of such publishers are exposed by such incidents. Dear all, We are very keen to make open access not only the papers of C.V. Raman but also any other articles/talks by him or on him. We have already made = available on our digital repository the newspaper clippings on him. All the 6 volumes of his collected papers have been scanned and we have the pdf files ready. Now only the publishers permission is needed to make them open access. We have written to all of them but getting all their permission is not assured. Already Taylor & Francis have declined to give permission to make their articles open access. Publisher's copyright policies may in fact be the biggest barrier to making this entire collection open access. However, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society have given us permission to = begin with. Our plan in these circumstances is to make articles open access wherever permission is clearly given and to make the rest restricted access. At least the metadata will then be freely available for all. Anyone interested can email us for a copy. I am sure that those who have established repositories are facing similar problems. But we are doing our best. With best wishes, Girija Srinivasan Raman Research Institute Library, Tel:+91 80 2361 0122 / Extn 250---------= For those of you who may not know Sir C V Raman, he was a leading physicist= of his generation and the only Indian to have won a science Nobel Prize. [= Prof. Amartya Sen won in Economics, and Mother Teresa for Peace. Prof. Subr= ahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Prof. Har Gobind Khorana were US citizens when t= hey won the Nobel Prize.] Prof. Raman was Director of the Indian Institute = of Science, Founder-Director of the Raman Research Institute and the Founde= r-President of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He passed away in November 1= 970 at the age of 82. Scientists should refrain from signing publishers' agreements without readi= ng them carefully. They should never surrender copyright to their creative = works - resaerch papers. Many journals agree to make changes in the standar= d copyright transfer form they use. Over 90% of about 9,000 journals survey= ed allow archiving of papers published in them. The rest of the journals sh= ould be persuaded to fall in line, and if they refuse scientists around the= world should boycott them - they shoud refrain from publishing in them, sh= ould not act as referees for those journals and should not be members of th= eir editorial boards. As most research is performed with public support - research grants from go= vernments and other donors - it is not proper on the part of researchers to= sign away copyright to journal publishers. One can only give first (or eve= n exclusive) right to publish the papers. Authors and their institutions sh= ould retain all rights to use the material subsequently in whatever way the= y want to. If journals can claim copyright to articles simply because they publish, sh= ould not the funding agencies claim copyright to work produced with their m= oney and should not the authors retain the copyright simply because the pap= er is their creative work? Subbiah Arunachalam=

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