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interview with David Lipman
by Mailing List Manager 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 16:55:07 +0530 (IST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is an interview with David Lipman. Very relevant to all of us in the field of bioinformatics (and new biology in general). I wish to draw your attention especially to the last question. his main thrust is increase the availability of CONTENT on the open web. A great boost for open access! Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Interview with David Lipman Juan Carlos Perez, Searching for Answers: NCBIs David Lipman, Bio-IT World, February 1, 2006. Excerpt: David Lipman [is the] director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information, part of the National Library of Medicine, which hosts various life sciences databases, including the PubMed scientific literature database.... Some people view Google, etc., as increasingly useful research tools in the life sciences, joining PubMed and other established services. What is your opinion? Lipman: People sometimes have this a bit backwards. The primary point is that there is a huge amount of information on the Web. The best way to make the Web more useful for research and education is to get more information out there. What we find on our site is that the more good-quality content that we add to a resource, the more it is being used. If you have more gene sequencing data, you have more searching. If you have more full text in PubMed Central, you have more searching. While I want to give MSN and Yahoo and Google a lot of credit for doing a good job, the reality is that if there wasnt content there, it wouldnt matter how good those search engines were. And if the search engines were a little less good than they were, you would still be getting to a lot of good content... And if those search engines got better, it wouldnt make as much of a difference as if there was more good peer-reviewed medical content. That would make a bigger impact.... Are you talking about identifying search patterns from users so you can surface links they might be interested in? If you did a search on, say, Alzheimer's disease, and you find a PubMed record that looks interesting to you right now you go to that page and we may have done an incredible amount of work to link that up to all kinds of things to information about genes that might be involved, to genetic versions of it, to related articles. And the reality is you have to poke around to see that its sort of hidden in a way. What well do instead is, using computational tools, poke around for you and then put them right on the record....The bottom line for us is discovery. We want people to make discoveries.... Is there a specific initiative tied to these improvements? Yes. I call it the Discovery Initiative. Its something new. Its been percolating. Last summer, I went out to visit Google and Amazons A9 [search engine] and the folks from Microsofts MSN came to visit. I also went up to Boston to meet with folks from the major hospitals there and MIT and Harvard. Weve really been giving this a lot of thought. In many ways, we have had great success. Lots of people use the site and 2.25 terabytes of data are downloaded from our site everyday. And yet I find it very frustrating because weve connected up the scientific information in very precise and powerful ways: a protein structure to the chemical its bound to, to genetic data, you name it. All that is connected up. And yet very few of our users do more than very simple things with our site....We want them to find answers to questions they didnt even know they had. They can do that. People who are really experts at using this site can make discoveries almost on demand....Weve always been working on making incremental improvements, but now Im talking about something that is a more powerful shift. Im hoping that without the users having to think about having to learn anything different, theyll be able to take advantage of databases they didnt know about and [make] connections between things they dont have to ask for anymore. This is a new phase.

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[Fwd: Microsoft RFP on Accelerating Search in Academic Research]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Fwd: Microsoft RFP on Accelerating Search in Academic Research] From: "Julie Allinson" <j.allinson(a)UKOLN.AC.UK> Date: Fri, February 3, 2006 2:22 pm To: JISC-REPOSITORIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message forwarded from Microsoft via DigLib From: Evelyne Viegas [mailto:evelynev@microsoft.com] Subject: Call for Proposals CALL for PROPOSALS Accelerating Search in Academic Research Microsoft Research External Research and Programs is pleased to announce a new worldwide Request for Proposals (RFP): Accelerating Search in Academic Research. For full details, guidelines, and instructions, please visit http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/RFPs/ Search_2006_RFP.aspx Submission deadline The RFP due date is March 24, 2006, 5pm PST (-8 UTC/GMT) Awards The total amount available under this request for proposals (RFP) is US $500,000. Microsoft anticipates making approximately 10-14 awards averaging $35,000, with a maximum of $50,000 for any single award. RFP highlights To advance academic research and publication in the area of Internet Search and, more generally, in data mining, discovery and analysis, Microsoft intends to make available to RFP awardees an MSN Search query log excerpt, with 15 million queries sampled over several weeks. This RFP invites submission of research proposals for projects which focus on the Internet Search research area and describe innovative research using the query/click log and MSN SDK assets in bold, novel, and unconventional approaches to explore Internet Search and related technologies, including interdisciplinary research. This Request for Proposals is in support of Live Labs collaboration with the academic research community. Live Labs is a partnership between MSN and Microsoft Research (MSR) focused on applied research for Internet-enabled products and services at Microsoft. More information on Live Labs is available at http://labs.live.com

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dispose old volumes of CA
by madhuresh.singhal 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Dear friends, We have old volumes of Chemical Abstracts (published by American Chemical Society) in our library and I want to dispose off the same. Chemical Abstracts are highly reputed and highly demanded in Chemical and Pharma industry but as I have taken online database so planning to dispose off print volumes. Can anyone please suggest how to go about it? If you know any book vendor engaged in such activities, please let me know. The details of the volumes are as below. Chemical Abstracts 1907-1989 with Decennial and Collective Index till Vol.95 (1981) Regards Madhuresh Singhal Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc. Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Phone: +91 80 51172085, Ext. 25; Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ ************************************************************************************************ This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************

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Invitation to the Inagural Session of the Workshop
by Suvarsha Walters 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

You are cordially invited to attend the inagural session of the National Workshop on Scientific Journal Publishing in India Venue: ===== Seminar Hall, National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Date & Timings: ============== 10th February, 2006. 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (Please be there 10 mintues early) Schedule: ======== 10.00 - 10.15 am - Inagural 10.15 - 11.00 am - 'Open Access Publishing in India' by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, MS Swaminathan Foundation 11.00 - 11.30 am - High Tea 11.30 - 12.15 pm - 'Medknow Publications - A Case Study' by Dr. D.K. Sahu, Medknow Publications Pvt. Ltd 12.15 - 1.00 pm - 'Indian biomedical Journals at NIC - Issues for migration to OJS' Sukhdev Singh, National Informatics Centre Please confirm your participation by email to the following email ID, so that we can make the necessary arrangements. sjpi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in with regards, Suvarsha *********************************************************************** Suvarsha Walters, Project Assistant, National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012 INDIA Ph (Off): 080-23600271 / 22932511 E-mail: sjpi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ************************************************************************

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Virus Alert
by Bhojaraju G 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

FYI.. Dear Friends, There is a warning message about the attack of virus today (mostly on 3rd of every month) in India. Do not to open any mails containing attachments like .exe, .zip, .rar..etc and with subject Kamasutra. For details pl refer http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IE920060202102528&Title=Chennai… ** *Worm to delete files on February 3* Friday February 3 2006 00:00 IST CHENNAI: Watch out for Kama Sutra this Friday. February 3 and the third of every month henceforth, a new malicious worm called by various names like Nyxem, Mywife, Work-Grew A, Kama Sutra and Blackworm would begin infecting your computer system. The mass-mailing worm, which uses its own SMTP engine, sends copies of itself as e-mail attachments to addresses collected from the infected computers. The mails use social engineering techniques such as promise of pornographic pictures to entice users to open the attachment. It also propagates itself through network shares, including popular P2P file sharing services. Chennai-based Cat Computer Services, which has a malicious software removal tool on its website www.quickheal.com, says the virus gets under the radar of anti-virus software because of unique extensions: .b64, .bhx, .hqx, .uu, .uue, .mim. The worm has been in circulation since mid-January and many are unaware of its infection status, says Sunil Joshi. Trend Micro, a leading AV software vendor, in a release, said the virus targets popular file formats including .DOC, .XLS, .PPT, .PDF, and .ZIP. "In addition to losing data, this virus also renders the keyboard and mouse inoperable, thereby leaving the user's system dead," the release added. It again targets various versions of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server and Windows NT. However, Microsoft on Monday posted a security advisory on the worm, but has decided against updating its Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool before the next regularly-scheduled release of February 14. There is good news, though. Since this threat is relatively well-known to the security industry, major security vendors detect this worm and its variants. Trend Micro customers can visit http://www.trendmicro.com/download/dcs.asp for removing the service. The best defence is for users to run a scan of their systems, to ensure they have not been infected. Thanks and Regards *Bhojaraju G* FYI.. Dear Friends, There is a warning message about the attack of virus today (mostly on 3rd of every month) in India. Do not to open any mails containing attachments like .exe, .zip, .rar..etc and with subject Kamasutra. For details pl refer http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IE920060202102528&Title=Chennai… http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IE920060202102528&Title=Chennai… Worm to delete files on February 3 Friday February 3 2006 00:00 IST CHENNAI: Watch out for Kama Sutra this Friday. February 3 and the third of every month henceforth, a new malicious worm called by various names like Nyxem, Mywife, Work-Grew A, Kama Sutra and Blackworm would begin infecting your computer system. The mass-mailing worm, which uses its own SMTP engine, sends copies of itself as e-mail attachments to addresses collected from the infected computers. The mails use social engineering techniques such as promise of pornographic pictures to entice users to open the attachment. It also propagates itself through network shares, including popular P2P file sharing services. Chennai-based Cat Computer Services, which has a malicious software removal tool on its website http://www.quickheal.com www.quickheal.com , says the virus gets under the radar of anti-virus software because of unique extensions: .b64, .bhx, .hqx, .uu, .uue, .mim. The worm has been in circulation since mid-January and many are unaware of its infection status, says Sunil Joshi. Trend Micro, a leading AV software vendor, in a release, said the virus targets popular file formats including .DOC, .XLS, .PPT, .PDF, and .ZIP. "In addition to losing data, this virus also renders the keyboard and mouse inoperable, thereby leaving the user's system dead," the release added. It again targets various versions of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server and Windows NT. However, Microsoft on Monday posted a security advisory on the worm, but has decided against updating its Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool before the next regularly-scheduled release of February 14. There is good news, though. Since this threat is relatively well-known to the security industry, major security vendors detect this worm and its variants. Trend Micro customers can visit http://www.trendmicro.com/download/dcs.asp http://www.trendmicro.com/download/dcs.asp for removing the service. The best defence is for users to run a scan of their systems, to ensure they have not been infected. Thanks and Regards Bhojaraju G

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International conference on UNIMARC (manjax4u)
by Manju manju 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

Dear All International conference on UNIMARC & FRIENDS CHARTING THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF LIBRARY STANDARDS http://unimarc.bn.pt/ with Yours P.S.MANJUNATHA (manjax) LIBRARIAN B.N.M.INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BANGALORE Dear All International conference on UNIMARC & FRIENDS CHARTING THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF LIBRARY STANDARDS http://unimarc.bn.pt/ http://unimarc.bn.pt/ with Yours P.S.MANJUNATHA (manjax) LIBRARIAN B.N.M.INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BANGALORE

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Reminder: Call for papers -- NATIONAL SEMINAR ON E-PUBLICATIONS
by Dimple Patel 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

*******Reminder: Call for papers****** Dear Professionals, This is a reminder for professionals who would like to submit and present a paper at our seminar. The LAST DATE for paper submissions is 15 FEBRUARY, 2006. Kindly refer to the Seminar details given below. NATIONAL SEMINAR ON E-PUBLICATIONS March 23-24, 2006 MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. The Centre for Information Science (CIS), Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action (MGNIRSA), Hyderabad is organizing a two-day national seminar on E-Publications during March 23-24, 2006 in Hyderabad. The seminar will deal with different aspects of E-publications however, the main focus will be on E-books and E-journals. Seminar Theme: Print publications like books and journals in particular have now manifested into electronic formats, E-books and E-journals. While E-publications provide many advantages they also present some issues which need to be addressed. This seminar tries to provide a platform for representatives from different groups like the authors, e-publishers and booksellers and librarians to discuss and address key issues in the publishing, usage and management of e-publications. Scope of the Seminar: The seminar will deal with various themes dealing with different aspects of E-publications, with the main focus being on E-books and E-journals. The themes for the seminar are: General issues related to E-publications * Issues in design, development and types of e-books and e-journals * E-books and e-journals in teaching and learning * Trends and Future of e-publications * Problems related to E-publications Emerging Technologies in e-publishing * New developments in e-publications * Media usage in e-publications * File formats * Software and Hardware technologies in e-publications * Issues related to e-book readers * Compatibility issues Standards in E-publications * Standards for: content packaging & formatting; content encapsulation & decapsulation; content dissemination; content storage * Standards for e-book readers * Standards for e-books software * Proprietary standards vs. open standards Content authoring and E-publishing * E-publishing Authoring tools * Content authoring in e-publications * Issues in e-publishing and e-publications * Changing roles of authors, agents and publishers in e-publishing era * Conversion from print to electronic publications E-Books and E-journals Applications * Higher Education & Research * Distance learning * E-learning * Enterprise applications Users and Usage of e-books and e-journals * Users perceptions, inhibitions, attitude, expectations, problems * Use and usability issues * Accessibility issues * Usage of e-books & e-journals in schools, colleges & universities E-publications in different types of Libraries * Implementation and policy issues * Collection development issues * Licensing issues * Lending issues (user authentication, data encryption, etc) * Cataloging of e-publications * Preservation and Archival issues * Obsolescence issues E-publishing in India * Case studies of Indian e-publishers, authors and suppliers * E-publication in India * E-publishing industry in India Library Consortia * Consortia models * Case studies of consortium initiatives in India * Issues related to Consortia approach Digital Rights Management * Rights Transfer * Copyright issues * Plagiarism and piracy issues * Digital Content Rights management Business Models for e-publications * Pricing models for e-books and e-journals * Subscription models for e-journals * E-content delivery models * Marketing trends/opportunities for e-publications * Licensing issues * Issues related to publishers, aggregators and booksellers Who can attend this seminar? * Library & Information Science Professionals and Educators * E-Publishers and suppliers of e-books and e-journals * Academics, research students and teachers with an interest in e-publications, e-learning, etc. * Academics in the fields of publishing, education and training. * IT professionals with an interest in e-publishing. * General users of e-publications * Educators with an interest in e-publishing and e-learning. Submission of papers: The seminar organisers are looking for high quality research papers in the areas related to e-books. Paper may be submitted in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), or MS Word (.doc) format. The last date to receive papers is 15 February, 2006. Receipt of the paper will be confirmed through email. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the seminar coordinator through email by 25 February, 2006. All papers submitted to National Seminar on E-publications must be written in English, using appropriate grammar and syntax. Final camera-ready version of full paper is due by 06 March, 2006. Registration and final payment are due by 15 March, 2006. Late registration fee payments or paper submissions will result in the papers being excluded from the seminar proceedings. The page limit for final papers is eight single-spaced pages in 10 point Times New Roman font. Paper will be included in the seminar proceedings only after payment of the registration fee. Important dates: 23-24 March, 2006 Seminar Dates 15 February, 2006 Deadline for paper submissions 25 February, 2006 Notification for acceptance 06 March, 2006 Deadline for submitting camera-ready version of full papers 15 March, 2006 Deadline for (early) registration Registration Fee: The registration fee for general participants is Rs.650.00. THE REGISTRATION FEE FOR RETIRED PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENT PARTICIPANTS IS Rs. 300. All the authorized students/research scholars are allowed to use this facility but they need to provide a letter from their Department/university certifying that he/she is the bonafied student of their department/university. The registration fee covers a set of pre-conference papers volume, two days lunch, tea and refreshments. Register early by 15th March 2006 to receive Rs.50.00 off on the seminar registration fee. Late applicants and day visitors can pay on arrival. Advance payments may be made by bank demand draft or cheque in favour of REGISTRAR, MGNIRSA, payable at HYDERABAD. Participants registering on arrival must pay in cash. Location: The conference is going to be held at Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action [MGNIRSA], Street No.17, Gagan Mahal Road, Domal Guda, Hyderabad 500 029. Accommodation: A wide range of accommodation is available in Hyderabad. Within 10 minutes walking distance is the Hotel Dwaraka (Rs.500.00 per single room, Rs.600.00 per double room, Rs.650 deluxe room, Rs.800 double room with AC). Charges for other hotels in Hyderabad range from Rs.500.00 to Rs.5000.00 per day. Those who want accommodation may write to the Seminar Coordinator for booking their accommodation in advance clearly mentioning the type of room they want, price range, number of days of stay and for how many persons so that necessary arrangements will be made for them. For more information about this seminar or to include your address in our mailing list, please contact: Dr. Chennupati K. Ramaiah, Director, Centre for Information Science, Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action [MGNIRSA], Street No.17, Gaganmahal Road, Domalguda, Hyderabad 500 029, Andhra Pradesh. Telephone: 040-27672492; Facsimile: 091-40-27664920 Email: cis.dsrf(a)gmail.com or chennupati_kramaiah(a)yahoo.com REGISTRATION FORM Family name: First name: Position: Institution: Address: City/State: PIN Code: Tel. No.: (Landline): (Hand phone): Fax: Email id: Please let us know: I will attend and present a paper in the technical session I will attend the conference Please book my accommodation on payment basis Payment Details: (DD/Cheque/MO/Others) Place Date Signature Dimple Patel, Faculty Member, Centre for Information Science, MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. INDIA. --------------------------------------- 1. Contribute to LDL: Librarians' Digital Library https://drtc.isibang.ac.in 2. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg ------------------------------------------------- "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" Jorge Luis BORGES (1899-1986) *******Reminder: Call for papers****** Dear Professionals, This is a reminder for professionals who would like to submit and present a paper at our seminar. The LAST DATE for paper submissions is 15 FEBRUARY, 2006. Kindly refer to the Seminar details given below. NATIONAL SEMINAR ON E-PUBLICATIONS March 23-24, 2006 MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. The Centre for Information Science (CIS), Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action (MGNIRSA), Hyderabad is organizing a two-day national seminar on E-Publications during March 23-24, 2006 in Hyderabad. The seminar will deal with different aspects of E-publications however, the main focus will be on E-books and E-journals. Seminar Theme: Print publications like books and journals in particular have now manifested into electronic formats, E-books and E-journals. While E-publications provide many advantages they also present some issues which need to be addressed. This seminar tries to provide a platform for representatives from different groups like the authors, e-publishers and booksellers and librarians to discuss and address key issues in the publishing, usage and management of e-publications. Scope of the Seminar: The seminar will deal with various themes dealing with different aspects of E-publications, with the main focus being on E-books and E-journals. The themes for the seminar are: General issues related to E-publications * Issues in design, development and types of e-books and e-journals * E-books and e-journals in teaching and learning * Trends and Future of e-publications * Problems related to E-publications Emerging Technologies in e-publishing * New developments in e-publications * Media usage in e-publications * File formats * Software and Hardware technologies in e-publications * Issues related to e-book readers * Compatibility issues Standards in E-publications * Standards for: content packaging & formatting; content encapsulation & decapsulation; content dissemination; content storage * Standards for e-book readers * Standards for e-books software * Proprietary standards vs. open standards Content authoring and E-publishing * E-publishing Authoring tools * Content authoring in e-publications * Issues in e-publishing and e-publications * Changing roles of authors, agents and publishers in e-publishing era * Conversion from print to electronic publications E-Books and E-journals Applications * Higher Education & Research * Distance learning * E-learning * Enterprise applications Users and Usage of e-books and e-journals * Users perceptions, inhibitions, attitude, expectations, problems * Use and usability issues * Accessibility issues * Usage of e-books & e-journals in schools, colleges & universities E-publications in different types of Libraries * Implementation and policy issues * Collection development issues * Licensing issues * Lending issues (user authentication, data encryption, etc) * Cataloging of e-publications * Preservation and Archival issues * Obsolescence issues E-publishing in India * Case studies of Indian e-publishers, authors and suppliers * E-publication in India * E-publishing industry in India Library Consortia * Consortia models * Case studies of consortium initiatives in India * Issues related to Consortia approach Digital Rights Management * Rights Transfer * Copyright issues * Plagiarism and piracy issues * Digital Content Rights management Business Models for e-publications * Pricing models for e-books and e-journals * Subscription models for e-journals * E-content delivery models * Marketing trends/opportunities for e-publications * Licensing issues * Issues related to publishers, aggregators and booksellers Who can attend this seminar? * Library & Information Science Professionals and Educators * E-Publishers and suppliers of e-books and e-journals * Academics, research students and teachers with an interest in e-publications, e-learning, etc. * Academics in the fields of publishing, education and training. * IT professionals with an interest in e-publishing. * General users of e-publications * Educators with an interest in e-publishing and e-learning. Submission of papers: The seminar organisers are looking for high quality research papers in the areas related to e-books. Paper may be submitted in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), or MS Word (.doc) format. The last date to receive papers is 15 February, 2006. Receipt of the paper will be confirmed through email. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the seminar coordinator through email by 25 February, 2006. All papers submitted to National Seminar on E-publications must be written in English, using appropriate grammar and syntax. Final camera-ready version of full paper is due by 06 March, 2006. Registration and final payment are due by 15 March, 2006. Late registration fee payments or paper submissions will result in the papers being excluded from the seminar proceedings. The page limit for final papers is eight single-spaced pages in 10 point Times New Roman font. Paper will be included in the seminar proceedings only after payment of the registration fee. Important dates: 23-24 March, 2006 Seminar Dates 15 February, 2006 Deadline for paper submissions 25 February, 2006 Notification for acceptance 06 March, 2006 Deadline for submitting camera-ready version of full papers 15 March, 2006 Deadline for (early) registration Registration Fee: The registration fee for general participants is Rs.650.00. THE REGISTRATION FEE FOR RETIRED PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENT PARTICIPANTS IS Rs. 300. All the authorized students/research scholars are allowed to use this facility but they need to provide a letter from their Department/university certifying that he/she is the bonafied student of their department/university. The registration fee covers a set of pre-conference papers volume, two days lunch, tea and refreshments. Register early by 15th March 2006 to receive Rs.50.00 off on the seminar registration fee. Late applicants and day visitors can pay on arrival. Advance payments may be made by bank demand draft or cheque in favour of REGISTRAR, MGNIRSA, payable at HYDERABAD. Participants registering on arrival must pay in cash. Location: The conference is going to be held at Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action [MGNIRSA], Street No.17, Gagan Mahal Road, Domal Guda, Hyderabad 500 029. Accommodation: A wide range of accommodation is available in Hyderabad. Within 10 minutes walking distance is the Hotel Dwaraka (Rs.500.00 per single room, Rs.600.00 per double room, Rs.650 deluxe room, Rs.800 double room with AC). Charges for other hotels in Hyderabad range from Rs.500.00 to Rs.5000.00 per day. Those who want accommodation may write to the Seminar Coordinator for booking their accommodation in advance clearly mentioning the type of room they want, price range, number of days of stay and for how many persons so that necessary arrangements will be made for them. For more information about this seminar or to include your address in our mailing list, please contact: Dr. Chennupati K. Ramaiah, Director, Centre for Information Science, Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action [MGNIRSA], Street No.17, Gaganmahal Road, Domalguda, Hyderabad 500 029, Andhra Pradesh. Telephone: 040-27672492; Facsimile: 091-40-27664920 Email: cis.dsrf(a)gmail.com or chennupati_kramaiah(a)yahoo.com REGISTRATION FORM Family name: First name: Position: Institution: Address: City/State: PIN Code: Tel. No.: (Landline): (Hand phone): Fax: Email id: Please let us know: I will attend and present a paper in the technical session I will attend the conference Please book my accommodation on payment basis Payment Details: (DD/Cheque/MO/Others) Place Date Signature Dimple Patel, Faculty Member, Centre for Information Science, MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. INDIA. --------------------------------------- 1. Contribute to LDL: Librarians' Digital Library https://drtc.isibang.ac.in 2. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg ------------------------------------------------- "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" Jorge Luis BORGES (1899-1986) http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Structured Blogging
by madhuresh.singhal 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

Dear Friends, You might be interested in Structured Blogging. See http://structuredblogging.org/ for more details. Below are few lines taken from the website. Structured Blogging is a way to get more information on the web in a way that's more usable. You can enter information in this form and it'll get published on your blog like a normal entry, but it will also be published in a machine-readable format so that other services can read and understand it. Think of structured blogging as RSS for your information. Now any kind of data - events, reviews, classified ads - can be represented in your blog. Structured Blogging makes it easy to create, edit, and maintain different kinds of posts and is very similar to an edit form on a blog. The difference is that the structure will let users add specific styles to each type, and add links and pictures for reviews. These styles and tags ensure that movie and book reviews don't look like calendar or journal entries, and that each content type can be quickly recognized and processed by automated search services and other applications. Woven into the HTML of a blog post, this information travels with it through syndication feeds, readers, and aggregators. Ultimately, it can even be converted out to other formats our Structured Blogging tools support such as RDF in XML. Now anyone can build applications or services based on the structure of an entry. Using Structured Blogging, job listings can be created, posted, searched, and found by any service; buyers and sellers of goods can publish what they want to buy or sell and have those posts searched and listed by any number of search services. Regards Madhuresh Singhal Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc. Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Phone: +91 80 51172085, Ext. 25; Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ ************************************************************************************************ This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************

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How to remain competitive in the era of Google, Amazon and ITunes
by Sukhdev Singh 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

Dear Friends, To remain competitive in the era of Google, Amazon and ITunes, we needto improve our bibliographic services in the following aspects: I. Enhancing Search and Retrieval-Provide users with direct access to item-Provide recommender features Support customization/personalization-Offer alternative actions for failed or suspect searches-Offer better navigation of large sets of search results-Deliver bibliographic services where the users are-Provide relevance ranking and leverage full-text-Provide better searching for non-roman materials II. Rearchitecting the OPAC-Create a single catalog interface for all of UC-Support searching across the entire bibliographic information space III. Adopting New Cataloging Practices-Rearchitect cataloging workflow-Select the appropriate metadata scheme-Manually enrich metadata in important areas-Automate metadata creation This is what Bibliographic Services Task Force (BSTF) [1] - TheUNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA LIBRARIES - has recommended. http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/BSTF/Final.pdf --Sukhdev Singh, NIChttp://openmed.nic.in

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OpenDOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

** Sorry for duplicate postings, if any ** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 07:51:18 -0500 From: Terry Kuny <terry(a)kuny.ca> To: DIGLIB <diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr> Subject: [DIGLIB] OpenDOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:01:37 +0100 From: Sebastian Wolf <sebastian.wolf(a)uni-bielefeld.de> Apologies for Cross-Posting Dear Colleagues, OpenDOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories - is pleased to announce the release of its primary listing of open access archives, available from http://www.opendoar.org Each of the repositories listed in OpenDOAR have been visited by project staff to check the information that is gathered. This in- depth approach gives a quality-controlled list of repository features. In addition, while reviewing these archives, project staff are building a picture of the world-wide development of open access repositories, noting new features and directions. This information is being analysed to create the next version of the listing, with further information and categories being noted for each repository. In the meantime, the newly released list will continue to grow as new repositories are added. The Press Release on this development is available from this link: http://www.opendoar.org/documents/OpenDOAR_Press_Release_Jan06.pdf * * * OpenDOAR is a joint collaboration between the University of Nottingham in the UK and Lund University in Sweden. Both institutions are active in open access initiatives. Lund operates the Directory of Open Access Journals (www.DOAJ.org) which is known throughout the world. Nottingham leads SHERPA, and runs the SHERPA/RoMEO database, which is used worldwide as a reference for publisher's copyright policies. Staff at Lund University Libraries have created the initial OpenDOAR technical set-up and carried out repository review and classification. OpenDOAR builds on open access work done by other researchers and projects to record and list repositories. Among others, thanks go to the Public Knowledge Project, and the universities of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Southampton. OpenDOAR is jointly funded by four agencies, led by the international Open Society Institute (OSI). The UK higher education funding committee, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) has provided support, along with funding from the UK-based Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL) and from SPARCEurope - an alliance of European research libraries, library organisations, and research institutions. Bill Hubbard SHERPA Manager Information Services King's Meadow Campus University of Nottingham Lenton Lane Nottingham NG7 2NA UK Email: bill.hubbard(a)opendoar.org Phone: +44 (0) 115 846 7657 Fax: +44 (0) 115 846 8244 Lars Bj�rnshauge Director of Libraries Lund University Libraries Box 134 S 221 00 Lund, Sweden Email: lars.bjornshauge(a)lub.lu.se Phone: +46 (0) 46 222 9203 Fax: +46 (0) 46 222 3682 Regards, S.M. Pujar Asst Librarian IGIDR, Mumbai

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