Dear All,
It is nice that Mr Ehtesham had gone a step ahead in the right way to train
his peers. It seems that helping others to learn essential new technologies,
that enable them to perform better, is an indirect way to build our
professional status.
Therefore I am offering my help to those who are interested in learning
those technologies, in and around my state. It seems that we should develop
some sort of distance training too.
Sometime ago I conducted a Distance Training on Digital Archiving using
Winisis/Genisis with the help of the site
http://rajankila.googlepages.com/
The training went on well and a few among the 88 participants turned up
initially, could learn the technology easily.
Now one can create free site for digital training using Google site (
http://sites.google.com/)
for the purpose.
Regards,
K Rajasekharan
Kerala Institute of Local Administration
Thrissur
Ph 0487 - 2200244 + 208 ( extn)
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Original Message
Date: 26 Dec 2008 12:23:32 -0000
From: "Ehtesham" <ehte786(a)rediffmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] ICT - Open Source tools for Library
?
Dear All,
I appreciate and thankful for overwhelming response from LIS community which
I got through mails and phone calls. Many members shown there interest in
implementing Open Source tools and serve there user best. Yes why not! "when
there is a will there is a way".
I received number of mails asking for the details - (features and
functionality) of the software which can be implemented for their respective
libraries.
The tools which I suggested in my mail are well known and are being used
world wide. I will provide you the Gist and website from where you can get
more details and for DSpace and OpenURL suite you can look at my project
report (links are provided below).
1. DSpace: It is a well known Digital repository software developed by MIT.
It has all the inbuilt features which is required for any ideal
institutional repository. Details you can get from the official website of
DSpace :
http://www.dspace.org/
You can also look at my project report on DSpace testing of its features and
functionality. Here is the link :
https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/415
2. ePrints: It is a digital library software being used by IISC, IIT for
there digital repository. Feature wise it is as good as DSpace. You can look
for more details at http://www.eprints.org/
3. Moodle: It is one of the best free elearning tool used across the world.
At DRTC we implemented it for many organisation and conduted workshop and
training session. We are using it in our company. Details you can get from :
http://moodle.org
4. Joomla & Drupal: - These are free content management system tool. It can
be used to manage the different forms of online collection for the
organization. Go to there website where you can get more information:
http://joomla.orghttp://drupal.org
5. WordPress : With advent of w3 and the era of web 2.0 it became very easy
to become a writer and invite others to read our articles and thought. This
tool is meant for such kind of idea.
Get more details from http://wordpress.org
6. MediaWiki : Yes Wikipedia are there from centuries to make our self
informative on some given subject. Now we are into digital age and our need
and volume of information also increased. We need to have information at a
single mouse click. So to fulfill all this mediawiki a free tool has been
designed. To get more information look at : http://mediawiki.org.
7. OpenURL reSearcher suite (CUFTS, GODOT, DBWIZ): Developed by SFU. This is
entirely a new initiative and efforts are being done. You can look at SFU
websit and my project report :
http://software.lib.sfu.ca/https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/414
Hope these all will be useful to you. Please let me know if you have any
query. I am always open for it and invite other peer members also to join
this initiative. As Mr. K Rajasekharan mentioned this will directly or
indirectly help us to improve ourselves.
Ehtesham
(+91)9985100322
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