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Webology: Volume 3, Number 1, 2006
by Alireza Noruzi 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 3, No. 1 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now. This issue contains: ------------------ Editorial: Link Spam and Search Engines -- Alireza Noruzi -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/editorial7.html ----------------------------------------- Stemming and root-based approaches to the retrieval of Arabic documents on the Web -- Haidar Moukdad -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/a22.html ----------------------------------------- E-marketing, Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, and Legal Solutions -- Li Xingan -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/a23.html ----------------------------------------- Environmental Knowledge and Marginalized Communities: The Last Mile Connectivity -- A. Neelameghan and Greg Chester -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/a24.html ----------------------------------------- Book Review of 'Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment'/ Lucy A. Tedd & Andrew Large -- Hamid R. Jamali -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/bookreview3.html ========================================= Call for Papers: http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ========================================= Regards, A. Noruzi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Right to Information Act -Jobs should be given to Information Professionals
by vasanth raj 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Dear Sir/Madam, The much awaited Right to Information Act has come into force in India.And already we have seen and heard that there is a great demand for information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed.But Govt Authorities have totally neglected the library and Information Professionals, most of the people who have appointed as public Information Officer have came from Journalism and mass communication." Public Information Officer" job is best suited for LIS professionals where the skills of storage , organise and dissemination of Information is highly required.Already there are instances that Public Information Officers have failed to provide right information to the right people at a right time.This is because of lack of skills to organise and storage of Information.This is the right time to Library Association and Universities to pressurize Govt. appoint library and Information professionals as " Public Information Officer" and this will definitely helps people to have information quickly whenever they need.This will not only helps govt to function smoothly and huge opportunities for LIS professionals as well. Your Sincerely ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N --------------------------------- Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India Click here Dear Sir/Madam, The much awaited Right to Information Act has come into force in India.And already we have seen and heard that there is a great demand for information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed.But Govt Authorities have totally neglected the library and Information Professionals, most of the people who have appointed as public Information Officer have came from Journalism and mass communication." Public Information Officer" job is best suited for LIS professionals where the skills of storage , organise and dissemination of Information is highly required.Already there are instances that Public Information Officers have failed to provide right information to the right people at a right time.This is because of lack of skills to organise and storage of Information.This is the right time to Library Association and Universities to pressurize Govt. appoint library and Information professionals as " Public Information Officer" and this will definitely helps people to have information quickly whenever they need.This will not only helps govt to function smoothly and huge opportunities for LIS professionals as well. Your Sincerely ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html Click here

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online encyclopedia
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Date: 13 Apr 2006 11:36:23 -0000 From: Sampath Kumar <sampathbt_2001(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear Professionals The Online encyclopedia (wikipedia)which allows you to edit or add any portion to existing piece,adds to novelty of the site. This encyclopedia is in several languages (kannada, Telugu, hindi. english etc). Do visit www.wikipedia.org and you'll like it. www.wikipedia.org ==================== Dr.B.T.Sampath Kumar Lecturer Dept. of Library and Inf. Sc. KUVEMPU UNIVERSITY, JNANA SAHYADRI-577451, Shimoga. Karnataka, INDIA Ph:94483 20187 www.freewebs.com/drbtsampathkumar

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Fw: Resignation of IFLA Secretary General
by JK Vijayakumar 28 May '06

28 May '06

Magda Bouwens <Magda.Bouwens(a)ifla.nl> wrote: Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:38:05 +0100 From: "Magda Bouwens" To: Subject: Resignation of IFLA Secretary General It is with great regret that IFLA announces that the Secretary General, Mr Ramachandran, has resigned for personal reasons effective 31 December 2004. IFLA is very grateful to him for his service to the Federation during his tenure of the post. Drawing on his wide experience gained during a distinguished career in librarianship in Singapore and Southeast Asia, Mr Ramachandran brought new perspectives to IFLA which have enhanced the planning processes. IFLA wishes Mr Ramachandran well in his future endeavours and thanks him for his contributions to global librarianship. Kay Raseroka IFLA President __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Everybody Has a Librarian Inside
by Sukhdev Singh 01 May '06

01 May '06

Well - a librarian is most concerned with selecting and organizing information. But that is exactly what everybody in doing on web in a phenomenon called Folksonomy < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy >. A "folksonomy" is a collaboratively generated, open-ended labeling system that enables Internet users to categorize content such as Web pages, online photographs, and Web links. This is because everybody has a small "Librarian" embedded inside < http://sukhdev.blogspot.com/2006/04/everybody-has-librarian-inside.html >. Any comments please!! --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Lecture invitation
by SRELS 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Dear Moderator: Kindly announce the following invitation to the lis-forum members. K.N. Prasad Convenor Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Committee c/o. Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 **** Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Committee Kuvempu University Department of Library and Information Science Jnana Sahyadri Shankaraghatta 577 451 Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Lecture Series - 5 5th May 2006 Chief Guest Prof. Rajendra Chenni Chairman Department of English Kuvempu University Prof. T.N. Shankaranarayana Director School of Languages Kuvempu University will preside You are cordially invited Date : 05.05.2006 Time : 11.00 a.m. Venue : Prof. Venkataramaiah Hall, Kuvempu University Jnana Sahyadri Sri. Praveen Chandra, I.F.S. Registrar Dr. K.N. Prasad Dr. B.S. Biradar Convenor Local Convenor Dear Moderator: Kindly announce the following invitation to the lis-forum members. K.N. Prasad Convenor Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Committee c/o. Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 **** Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Committee Kuvempu University Department of Library and Information Science Jnana Sahyadri Shankaraghatta 577 451 Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Lecture Series - 5 5th May 2006 Chief Guest Prof. Rajendra Chenni Chairman Department of English Kuvempu University Prof. T.N. Shankaranarayana Director School of Languages Kuvempu University will preside You are cordially invited Date : 05.05.2006 Time : 11.00 a.m. Venue : Prof. Venkataramaiah Hall, Kuvempu University Jnana Sahyadri Sri. Praveen Chandra, I.F.S. Registrar Dr. K.N. Prasad Dr. B.S. Biradar Convenor Local Convenor

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EU, China to Link Up High-Speed Electronic Networks
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Friends: China is getting the benefit of high speed network connection with Europe and this would benefit science in China a great deal. Should not India get connected with the European and North American networks and enhance research collaboration with the advanced countries? Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -------------------------------------- From Grid Today (SUN Microsystems), 28 April 2006 Breaking News: EU, China to Link Up High-Speed Electronic Networks Communication and collaboration among 45 million researchers and students across Europe and China will be greatly facilitated by a new Sino-European high-speed network connection. Co-funded by the European Union, China and European National Research and Education Networks, the ?4.15 million ($5.67 million)-ORIENT (Oriental Research Infrastructure to European NeTworks) project will benefit all Sino-European research, including radio astronomy, sustainable development, meteorology and Grid computing, by helping to step up the flow of information between Europe and China. The ORIENT project is supported by the EU's 6th Research Framework Programme. "ORIENT enables truly international research co-operation, by making geographic location almost irrelevant," commented Information Society media commissioner Viviane Reding. "Access to applications such as telemedicine, digital libraries and e-learning will help the general public, as well as the research community, to build academic and cultural links between Europe and China and an open exchange of opinions and expertise between Chinese and European researchers. And at the same time, ORIENT will bring together the world's best minds to tackle global challenges such as climate change and sustainable development." ORIENT will connect Europe's GÉANT2, the world's most advanced international research and education network and the Chinese research networks CERNET and CSTNET on an overland route via Siberia. Scheduled to go live later in 2006 it will link over 200 Chinese universities and research institutions, at speeds of up to 2.5 Gbps. It will be coordinated by research networking organisation DANTE in Europe and the CERNET network in China. The ORIENT launch follows Commissioner Reding's meeting with Xu Guanhua, Minister of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, in Beijing in January. At the meeting, both sides agreed that e-infrastructure (advanced networking and Grid technologies) and its applications would play a key role in economic and social development and acknowledged the high importance of bilateral cooperation. Commissioner Reding, during her visit in China, had emphasised the importance of cooperation among researchers and students for the development of open societies. The project began on March 1 and will run for three years. Funding of the link will come from three sources: 50 percent of the project cost will be provided by CERNET (from the Chinese Ministries of Education, and Science and Technology respectively); 25 percent from the European Commission; and the final 25 percent contributed by Europe's National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). A number of Sino-European research projects have already been established and are looking forward to use the ORIENT connection. EUChinaGrid will extend the European Grid infrastructure for e-Science to China, supporting the international extension of the European Research Area (ERA). The EXPReS radio-astronomy project will see European radio telescopes connected to partners in China. ORIENT will provide a complementary service to TEIN2, the Asia-Pacific research network which went live in December 2005. TEIN2 links 10 countries, including China, at speeds of up to 622 Mbps, fostering regional collaboration. Each network will benefit from the connectivity provided by the other, increasing capacity and providing backup links in the event of failure. In addition to DANTE and CERNET, the project is supported by several European NRENs, namely GARR (Italy), DFN-Verein (Germany), RENATER (France), UKERNA (UK), GRNET (Greece) and CESNET (Czech Republic). Friends: China is getting the benefit of high speed network connection with Europe and this would benefit science in China a great deal. Should not India get connected with the European and North American networks and enhance research collaboration with the advanced countries? Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -------------------------------------- From Grid Today (SUN Microsystems), 28 April 2006 Breaking News: EU, China to Link Up High-Speed Electronic Networks Communication and collaboration among 45 million researchers and students across Europe and China will be greatly facilitated by a new Sino-European high-speed network connection. Co-funded by the European Union, China and European National Research and Education Networks, the 4.15 million ($5.67 million)-ORIENT (Oriental Research Infrastructure to European NeTworks) project will benefit all Sino-European research, including radio astronomy, sustainable development, meteorology and Grid computing, by helping to step up the flow of information between Europe and China. The ORIENT project is supported by the EU's 6th Research Framework Programme. "ORIENT enables truly international research co-operation, by making geographic location almost irrelevant," commented Information Society media commissioner Viviane Reding. "Access to applications such as telemedicine, digital libraries and e-learning will help the general public, as well as the research community, to build academic and cultural links between Europe and China and an open exchange of opinions and expertise between Chinese and European researchers. And at the same time, ORIENT will bring together the world's best minds to tackle global challenges such as climate change and sustainable development." ORIENT will connect Europe's GÉANT2, the world's most advanced international research and education network and the Chinese research networks CERNET and CSTNET on an overland route via Siberia. Scheduled to go live later in 2006 it will link over 200 Chinese universities and research institutions, at speeds of up to 2.5 Gbps. It will be coordinated by research networking organisation DANTE in Europe and the CERNET network in China. The ORIENT launch follows Commissioner Reding's meeting with Xu Guanhua, Minister of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, in Beijing in January. At the meeting, both sides agreed that e-infrastructure (advanced networking and Grid technologies) and its applications would play a key role in economic and social development and acknowledged the high importance of bilateral cooperation. Commissioner Reding, during her visit in China, had emphasised the importance of cooperation among researchers and students for the development of open societies. The project began on March 1 and will run for three years. Funding of the link will come from three sources: 50 percent of the project cost will be provided by CERNET (from the Chinese Ministries of Education, and Science and Technology respectively); 25 percent from the European Commission; and the final 25 percent contributed by Europe's National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). A number of Sino-European research projects have already been established and are looking forward to use the ORIENT connection. EUChinaGrid will extend the European Grid infrastructure for e-Science to China, supporting the international extension of the European Research Area (ERA). The EXPReS radio-astronomy project will see European radio telescopes connected to partners in China. ORIENT will provide a complementary service to TEIN2, the Asia-Pacific research network which went live in December 2005. TEIN2 links 10 countries, including China, at speeds of up to 622 Mbps, fostering regional collaboration. Each network will benefit from the connectivity provided by the other, increasing capacity and providing backup links in the event of failure. In addition to DANTE and CERNET, the project is supported by several European NRENs, namely GARR (Italy), DFN-Verein (Germany), RENATER (France), UKERNA (UK), GRNET (Greece) and CESNET (Czech Republic).

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Purdue's Distributed Institutional Repository
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

From Peter Suber's blog. Purdue's Distributed Institutional Repository Purdue University is developing a Distributed Institutional Repository. Amy Page Christiansen has a short article about it in the current HPC Wire. Excerpt: Purdue Libraries and Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) are collaborating on an initiative that includes innovative software developed on campus to help researchers store, sort, archive, retrieve and manage large-scale data and information. The Distributed Institutional Repository is a Web-based data portal that provides tools and systems to manipulate large data sets and to help users understand the origins of data and learn about additional research applications using the same data. "The DIR is an architecture Purdue Libraries developed which utilizes a unique approach to pulling access together from a number of distributed repositories," said Scott Brandt, professor of library science and associate dean for research for Purdue Libraries. Most institutional repositories use a single system within a single software environment. In addition to data repositories built by ITaP and the Libraries, the DIR will access a wide variety of information systems, including electronic dissertations e-prints and archival special collections...."The Libraries have always supported research through building and organizing collections," Brandt said. "With a distributed repository, we hope to enhance discovery and use of data across campus." An institutional repository is necessary to meet the growing need to house massive amounts of data and to make it usable for users across the academic environment, Brandt said....Purdue added its own twist through software developed by Michael Witt, senior research systems administrator for Purdue Libraries, that can interface between SRB [Storage Resource Broker] and standard OAI-PMH software (open archives initiative-protocol for metadata harvesting), which allows repositories to talk to each other...."We need to be able to access this data wherever it resides," Brandt said. "This gives us different ways to test that access and discovery." Part of the overall initiative is to work with Purdue's Cyber Center to address issues related to interoperability of data -- representing and combining data in new ways to generate knowledge. In addition to providing a home for researchers' massive data sets, the repository project also will spur decisions about data-rights management, sharing of intellectual property and length and format of data archival storage. The DIR developers are giving a public talk about it at Purdue on May 2. From Peter Suber's blog. Purdue's Distributed Institutional Repository http://www.purdue.edu/ Purdue University is developing a Distributed Institutional Repository . Amy Page Christiansen has a short http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/640030.html article about it in the current HPC Wire . Excerpt: Purdue Libraries and Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) are collaborating on an initiative that includes innovative software developed on campus to help researchers store, sort, archive, retrieve and manage large-scale data and information. The Distributed Institutional Repository is a Web-based data portal that provides tools and systems to manipulate large data sets and to help users understand the origins of data and learn about additional research applications using the same data. "The DIR is an architecture Purdue Libraries developed which utilizes a unique approach to pulling access together from a number of distributed repositories," said Scott Brandt, professor of library science and associate dean for research for Purdue Libraries. Most institutional repositories use a single system within a single software environment. In addition to data repositories built by ITaP and the Libraries, the DIR will access a wide variety of information systems, including electronic dissertations e-prints and archival special collections...."The Libraries have always supported research through building and organizing collections," Brandt said. "With a distributed repository, we hope to enhance discovery and use of data across campus." An institutional repository is necessary to meet the growing need to house massive amounts of data and to make it usable for users across the academic environment, Brandt said....Purdue added its own twist through software developed by Michael Witt, senior research systems administrator for Purdue Libraries, that can interface between SRB [Storage Resource Broker] and standard OAI-PMH software (open archives initiative-protocol for metadata harvesting), which allows repositories to talk to each other...."We need to be able to access this data wherever it resides," Brandt said. "This gives us different ways to test that access and discovery." Part of the overall initiative is to work with Purdue's Cyber Center to address issues related to interoperability of data -- representing and combining data in new ways to generate knowledge. In addition to providing a home for researchers' massive data sets, the repository project also will spur decisions about data-rights management, sharing of intellectual property and length and format of data archival storage. The DIR developers are giving a http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/rcac/events/library.htm public talk about it at Purdue on May 2.

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[LIS-Forum] Version 62, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Version 62 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,680 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics* Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata Digital Libraries Electronic Books and Texts Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images* Legal Preservation Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 220 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 580 KB. Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries E-Mail: cbailey(a)digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others)

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workshop
by Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Dear Moderator, pl post this message in news groups. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies for cross posting of this message ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear profssional friends, The Department of LIS, Andhra University will conduct a Workshop on 'Design and development of digital libraries using DSpace on Windows' from October 9-13. Dr M.G.Sreekumar will be the resource person. For further details pl contact the undersigned. Thank you, Varalakshmi -- Dr. RSR Varalakshmi Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam.

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