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Open Access Institutional Archives for India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

Friends: Here is a comment by Peter Suber applauding the US NIH mandatory self-archiving plan and Stevan Harnad's response to it - actually suggesting that NIH should mandate self-archiving in the authors' own institutional archives. This appears to be something funding agencies in India [such as DST, DBT, DAE, CSIR, UGC] could follow. Now there are at least half a dozen studies showing that papers in the open access regime are cited far more often than papers in the toll-access regime. And, as has been pointed out by OA advocates, institutional archiving has many benefits apart from improving the visibility of the scientists and their work. Many of you might be interested in seeing Richard Poynder's 10-year history of the Open Access movement that has just appeared today in Information Today: http://www.infotoday.com/IT/oct04/poynder.shtml Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Peter Suber has written an excellent FAQ on the House Appropriations Committee/NIH mandatory self-archiving plan: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/nihfaq.htm The FAQ is clear, comprehensive and on-target. I highly recommend it to anyone who is having any difficulty understanding the House/NIH recommendations. There is only one point on which I would disagree. Peter's FAQ says: Why PubMed Central [PMC]? PMC is maintained by the NIH; it already houses a very large body of medical literature; it has benefited from years of infrastructure refinements; it is committed to open access, long-term preservation, and interoperability. Some publishers object to the use of PMC and would like to see Congress allow grantees to put the literature elsewhere, either in multiple repositories or in any repository that meets certain conditions. If the report language were amended to meet these objections, open access would not suffer. At the same time, however, the high quality of PMC makes such amendments unnecessary. Peter is right that if the report were amended to allow grantees to deposit in any OAI-compliant archive, open access *to those papers* would not suffer. He is also right that this amendment would not be a *necessary* one. But such an amendment would make the recommendation a far *better* one. For it would generate far more Open Access (OA), in more disciplines and institutions, and sooner, if PMC were not stipulated as the mandatory locus of the self-archiving, only that the self-archiving must be done in an OAI-compliant OA Archive, preferably the author's own institutional OA Archive. The reason is that: (1) the self-archiving practice is far more likely to generalize to other disciplines at the same university if it is done at that university than if it is only done in PMC; (2) for functionality and quality the physical locus of the full-text makes no difference at all, as long as it is in an OAI-compliant OA Archive; (3) all OAI-compliant OA Archives (including PMC) are equivalent and interoperable; (4) the metadata of all OAI-complaint OA Archives are harvestable, hence they could be harvested into PMC too, if that was desired; (5) even the full-texts could be harvested into PMC, if that was desired; (6) PMC could (and should) be available as a backup locus for self-archiving for any grantee whose university does not yet have an OAI-compliant OA Archive. Another (very minor) reason for institutional rather than central self-archiving is that many of the 86% of journals that have already given their green light to author self-archiving have stipulated self-archiving at the author's own institution (so that their green light should not be legally construable as sanctioning 3rd-party free-riding by rival publishers). The publishers' worry is silly, but mandating PMC self-archiving just makes it into a further needless obstacle. http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php So it is not just publishers who "would like to see Congress allow grantees to put the literature elsewhere": It is also those OA advocates (like myself) who hope to see the House/NIH self-archiving mandate's effect propagate far beyond just the NIH-funded biomedical research papers to all of OA, in all fields. "In a study in the UK which we have just completed for the Joint Information Systems Committee, JISC (a brief account of which will, referees permitting, be published in a forthcoming special issue of Serials Review), after quite exhaustive review of all aspects of e-prints archiving, we recommended a "harvesting model", in which full texts (and other digital objects) remain at distributed institutional (and other) archives, but metadata is harvested and processed centrally." --- Fytton Rowland http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3909.html See also: "Central vs. Distributed Archives" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0293.html "Central versus institutional self-archiving" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3206.html Stevan Harnad Open Access Institutional Archives for India Friends: Here is a comment by Peter Suber applauding the US NIH mandatory self-archiving plan and Stevan Harnad's response to it - actually suggesting that NIH should mandate self-archiving in the authors' own institutional archives. This appears to be something funding agencies in India [such as DST, DBT, DAE, CSIR, UGC] could follow. Now there are at least half a dozen studies showing that papers in the open access regime are cited far more often than papers in the toll-access regime. And, as has been pointed out by OA advocates, institutional archiving has many benefits apart from improving the visibility of the scientists and their work. Many of you might be interested in seeing Richard Poynder's 10-year history of the Open Access movement that has just appeared today in Information Today: http://www.infotoday.com/IT/oct04/poynder.shtml http://www.infotoday.com/IT/oct04/poynder.shtml Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Peter Suber has written an excellent FAQ on the House Appropriations Committee/NIH mandatory self-archiving plan: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/nihfaq.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/nihfaq.htm The FAQ is clear, comprehensive and on-target. I highly recommend it to anyone who is having any difficulty understanding the House/NIH recommendations. There is only one point on which I would disagree. Peter's FAQ says: Why PubMed Central [PMC]? PMC is maintained by the NIH; it already houses a very large body of medical literature; it has benefited from years of infrastructure refinements; it is committed to open access, long-term preservation, and interoperability. Some publishers object to the use of PMC and would like to see Congress allow grantees to put the literature elsewhere, either in multiple repositories or in any repository that meets certain conditions. If the report language were amended to meet these objections, open access would not suffer. At the same time, however, the high quality of PMC makes such amendments unnecessary. Peter is right that if the report were amended to allow grantees to deposit in any OAI-compliant archive, open access *to those papers* would not suffer. He is also right that this amendment would not be a *necessary* one. But such an amendment would make the recommendation a far *better* one. For it would generate far more Open Access (OA), in more disciplines and institutions, and sooner, if PMC were not stipulated as the mandatory locus of the self-archiving, only that the self-archiving must be done in an OAI-compliant OA Archive, preferably the author's own institutional OA Archive. The reason is that: (1) the self-archiving practice is far more likely to generalize to other disciplines at the same university if it is done at that university than if it is only done in PMC; (2) for functionality and quality the physical locus of the full-text makes no difference at all, as long as it is in an OAI-compliant OA Archive; (3) all OAI-compliant OA Archives (including PMC) are equivalent and interoperable; (4) the metadata of all OAI-complaint OA Archives are harvestable, hence they could be harvested into PMC too, if that was desired; (5) even the full-texts could be harvested into PMC, if that was desired; (6) PMC could (and should) be available as a backup locus for self-archiving for any grantee whose university does not yet have an OAI-compliant OA Archive. Another (very minor) reason for institutional rather than central self-archiving is that many of the 86% of journals that have already given their green light to author self-archiving have stipulated self-archiving at the author's own institution (so that their green light should not be legally construable as sanctioning 3rd-party free-riding by rival publishers). The publishers' worry is silly, but mandating PMC self-archiving just makes it into a further needless obstacle. http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php So it is not just publishers who "would like to see Congress allow grantees to put the literature elsewhere": It is also those OA advocates (like myself) who hope to see the House/NIH self-archiving mandate's effect propagate far beyond just the NIH-funded biomedical research papers to all of OA, in all fields. "In a study in the UK which we have just completed for the Joint Information Systems Committee, JISC (a brief account of which will, referees permitting, be published in a forthcoming special issue of Serials Review), after quite exhaustive review of all aspects of e-prints archiving, we recommended a "harvesting model", in which full texts (and other digital objects) remain at distributed institutional (and other) archives, but metadata is harvested and processed centrally." --- Fytton Rowland http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3909.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3909.html See also: "Central vs. Distributed Archives" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0293.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0293.html "Central versus institutional self-archiving" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3206.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3206.html Stevan Harnad

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1 Announcement of Gokhale Institute's OPAC on th
by salman haider 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Dear Sir, The Web Opac is working fine giving all the details. The Web interface of SLIM++ software is also impressive. One other WebOpac worth looking is that of the Hyderabad based "Indian School of Busienss". Following is the link. Just do a little browsing of the library catalogue and you will apperciate the quantity of information that can be accessed online. <http://www.isb.edu/lrc/index.html> A digital library of documents relating to business management is also available. Regards, SALMAN HAIDER Consultant, Indian School of Business Library (LRC) Hyderabad On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 Jai Haravu wrote : >While congratulating the Gokhale Inst. for putting their library catalogue on the web, I must also express my disappointment that it looks like only the Institute's authorized users can search the OPAC. I think the Institute has such a rich collection of material that it should allow other scholars to at least search its collection and know if a particular publication is available or not. The whole purpose of putting a library's catalogue on the web is defeated if this is not done. > >cid:65519CDA-52A4-4314-A994-7F572CE46607 >L J Haravu >Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management [http://www.kiikm.org/] >69 Krishnapuri Colony >West Marredpally >Sedcunderabad 500 026 >Tel: 91-40-27803947 >-------Original Message------- > > From: >mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Date: >10/01/04 11:12:27 >To: >mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: >LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1 > >Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 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 http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mailto:lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >You can reach the person managing the list at > mailto:lis-forum-owner@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 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. RE: Request for Information (Monali Panchbhai) > 2. Announcement (N Murali) > 3. Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria, > Bangalore-Report (Shalini R. Urs) > 4. FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web > (Subbiah Arunachalam) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:46:50 +0000 > From: "Monali Panchbhai" < mailto:monalipanchbhai@hotmail.com monalipanchbhai(a)hotmail.com > > >Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information >To: mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com, ikishore(a)rediffmail.com, >mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: < mailto:BAY12-F22wGmAf0Mjka0001a01d@hotmail.com BAY12-F22wGmAf0Mjka0001a01d(a)hotmail.com > > >Content-Type: text/plain > >Dear Member, >The facility to restrict copy/paste/print is available through the Latest Acrobat-PDF 6.0 version. >You have to save that document with secutiry option which gives you the facility of the restricting diff. types of rights. >Try doing >Document ---> Security ---> Restrict opening & editing ---> >then set password and select the options for restriciting the rights. >Regards, >Monali Panchbhai >Librarian, >J V Gokal & Com. >Mumbai. > > >From: "Kishore Ingale" < mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com ikishore(a)rediffmail.com > > > >Reply-To: Kishore Ingale < mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com ikishore(a)rediffmail.com > > > >To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information > >Date: 30 Sep 2004 04:34:30 -0000 > > > > > >Dear Colleagues, > > > >We are experimenting with providing access to our digital documents to users through web based server (using Greenstone). Collection mostly include MS WORD and PDF documents. > > > >Is it possible to implement security with which users will be able to view documents but not able to download / save these files at their end.. ? > > > >Kishore Ingale >& mailto:gt;ikishore@rediffmail.com gt;ikishore(a)rediffmail.com > >ForwardSourceID:NT000043C2 > >_______________________________________________ > >LIS-Forum mailing list >& mailto:gt;LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in gt;LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >Millions of profiles from across the globe. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2737??PS=47575 http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2737??PS=47575 >On BharatMatrimony.com > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:01:14 -0700 (PDT) > From: N Murali < mailto:murali_dhara@yahoo.com murali_dhara(a)yahoo.com > > >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Announcement >To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: < mailto:20040930130114.72116.qmail@web51106.mail.yahoo.com 20040930130114.72116.qmail(a)web51106.mail.yahoo.com > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2004 15:07:39 +0100 > From: Prabhash Rath < mailto:prabhash@gipe.ernet.in prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in > > >Subject: Announcement > >Please distribute this message to Lis-forum > >Dear professionals, > >We are happy to inform you that the Gokhale >Institute Library has successfully developed the >bibliographic database of its entire collection >which may be accessed through the following site: > >http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html > >Gokhale Library might be the first to put up >bibliographic details of its entire collection on >the Web under the INFLIBNET automation programme >(1st Oct. 1999 to 30th Sept. 2004). > >A P Gadre >Librarian > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com http://mail.yahoo.com > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:42:27 +0530 (IST) > From: "Shalini R. Urs" < mailto:shalini@vidyanidhi.org.in shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in > > >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria, > Bangalore-Report >To: < mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > >Message-ID: > < mailto:35160.210.212.200.228.1096553547.squirrel@mail.vidyanidhi.org.in 35160.210.212.200.228.1096553547.squirrel(a)mail.vidyanidhi.org.in > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > >UNESCO Interactive Workshop on eBooks, Hotel Atria, Bangalore September >16, 2004 ( http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook >). >---------- >Envisioning the potential of eBooks in promoting and supporting >Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based- student centred >learning, UNESCO is engaged in a project on developing guidelines for >eBooks. The mission of this project is to carry out a scoping and >exploratory study of the eBooks and develop guidelines for the production, >promotion and usage of eBooks. This consultancy project involved three >phases- desk top research; questionnaire based user study and an >Interactive Workshop The Interactive Workshop on eBooks, was organised on >September 16, 2004 and held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore. >The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr.S.Ramakrishanan, Executive Director, >C-DAC, Pune. Dr. Lucy A Tedd of University of Wales gave the keynote and >Dr.Susanne Ornager, Advisor, Communication and Information for Asia and >the Pacific, UNESCO, New Delhi chaired the session. >The invitation only Workshop was an important milestone in the Project, >with more than seventy participants representing the diverse stakeholders >community. There were forty three information professionals; twenty four >end users and technologists; and six from the publishing/aggregator >industry in the Workshop, engaged in interacting, deliberating and >debating on the gamut of issues- from definitions to design to delivery >mechanisms. The format of the Workshop was designed to be interactive with >each session having speakers and a moderator to lead the discussions with >a set of issues/questions. >The inaugural session was followed by three sessions- user and technology >perspective; author and publisher perspective; and aggregator and library >perspective. Prof. R.Kalyana Krishnan of IIT, Chennai, Prof.G.Misra of >Indian Statistical Institute, Mr.Sanjiv Goswami of Springer, >N.V.Sathyanarayana of Informatics India, Dr.Primalini Kukanesan of >National Library of Malaysia and Dr. Deepali Talagala of Sri Lanka Library >Association were the speakers at these sessions. The three sessions were >moderated by Mr. Anand T. Byrappa of GE, Prof. I.K.Ravichandra Rao of >Indian Statistical Institute and Dr.Venkadesan of Indian Institute of >Science respectively. There were product presentations by John Wiley and >Springer. >The Workshop objective of gaining insights from different perspective was >achieved and the interactions helped in drawing meaningful conclusions >and providing the necessary inputs for the drafting of framework for the >guidelines document. >For more detailed report, presentations and details of the Project visit >the website http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------ http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------ > > > > >Dr. Shalini R. Urs >Director >Information and Communication Division >& >Professor and Chairperson >Department of Library and Information Science >University of Mysore >Mysore-570006 >India >Tele:91-821-2514699 >Fax :91-821-2519209 > > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 4 >Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:33:48 +0530 > From: Subbiah Arunachalam < mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in arun(a)mssrf.res.in > > >Subject: [LIS-Forum] FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web >To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: > < mailto:014BE5562FB3D511BA7A00508BCC23D47EF20E@swami.mssrf.res.in 014BE5562FB3D511BA7A00508BCC23D47EF20E(a)swami.mssrf.res.in > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > >Friends: > >Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find >it interesting and useful. Best wishes. > >Arun >[Subbiah Arunachalam] > > >Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web >http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ > >The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a >keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising >a one-hour talk in 30 minutes, Berners-Lee gave an animated, >rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes -- >about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative. > >Berners-Lees early remarks focused on his development of the Web. >Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass >of things being developed on the Internet, including protocols such as >TCP/IP and other standards. All I had to do on top of that to create >the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was >rather arrogant. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web and the idea was >that it would minimally constraining. And HTML, the language he created >to drive the Web, would be the cloth on which a tapestry would be made > the jewels, the colors > >Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions >between them, whats come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come >and gone, new ways of thinking and more recently, wikis and blogs. >The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a >place where we can all meet and read and write. Collaborative things >are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows >theyre [embracing] its creative side. > >But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he >would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Webs >fundamental design, but for various reasons it didnt make the cut. One >thing I wanted to put in the original design was the typing of links, >he said. For example, lets say you link your website to another site. >At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little >information: just an address to get to the other websites content. But >Berners-Lees idea was to include metadata with each hyperlink to >describe the relationship between the two sites. For example: do >the people linking their two websites know each other personally, >professionally, or not at all? If theyre colleagues, how are they >working together, and in what fields? Where are they working? > >When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may >mean, but a machine doesnt, he said. But this idea of embedding large >amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didnt make it into the >original Web standard. Now, hes trying to change that, with an >initiative called the Semantic Web. > >The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web, Berners-Lee >said. As the <a href=" http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ >">World Wide Web >Consortium</a> explains, The Web can reach its full potential only if >it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated >tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs >must be able to share and process data even when these programs have >been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the >idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can >be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, >integration and reuse of data across various applications. > >For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in >ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in >traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I >would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color >should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldnt > do this. Rather, youd tell the website to go to a URL that >defines a universal standard of what that color looks like. So >instead of coding a webpage to say Color=Red, youd say something like >Color= http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 > and your >website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This >would hold true for all data you include in your website: color, >people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs >containing descriptive information about that data. Information would >not be static or absolute; instead its an abstract concept that gets >sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it. > >An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons >initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying >how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has >created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a >persons content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes, >can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owners permission, >etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their >license with different combinations of these elements. When a content >publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their >website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their sites HTML that >refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection >of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such >as the contents redistribution policy. So when search engines and other >automated tools pick up that bloggers website, theyll access these >URLs and understand your copyright policy as you intended it. > >Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. The Web is >a tangle, your life is a tangle get used to it. > >Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online >information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they >share. Thats what its all about connecting things, he said. The >Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online >translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts >of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a >real-world example. Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus >breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases, >he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier. > >Its also helping build powerful social networking tools -- >friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about >themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this >information. Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of >this stuff, Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the >Web and find what were looking for based on what they know about our >needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. A >human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned, he joked. > >Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on >royalty-free technical standards. Standards must be royalty free to >foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. It is very >important that we make sure we are not tripped up by proprietary >standards, he said. With so many ridiculous patents out there, theres >always the threat that an underwater patent will torpedo innovation. > >Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience, >moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe. >Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a play project that his bosses >at Switzerlands CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The >structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working >independently, influenced the structure of the Web. Because it was a >lab, it acted more like a web in itself, so coming up with a virtual >web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of >sense. > >Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet >discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by >fellow scientists. Hypertext wasnt considered real computing, so I >sent it out to alternative news groups, he said. Some people like the >University of Illinois Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with >it; he went on to found Netscape. > >Others were less supportive because they didnt like the technical >structure behind it. Why do I have to use your horrible angle >brackets? they would say to him. > >Do you remember the names of these people? Metcalfe asked rather >mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question. > >Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didnt patent the >standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. Some >people have said, Isnt it a shame all these commercial things came >about? he noted. But most people wanted a commercial browser. The >private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and >academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the >adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted. >Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in >popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started >playing with Mozillas new open source Firefox browser as well. > >Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the >years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of >contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make >all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving >consensus in distributed group projects. If you take little groups, >they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups >together, they dont share their ideas, and have different values >towards how things should be built. This takes a lot more energy than >figuring out how to do it yourself. Making consensus, communicating >with other people is hard work. > >I had the luxury to do this myself with nobody there to object, he >continued. But now were doing things where there are lot of people >interested in getting involved. If you want to do something, do it >yourself. > >As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on >the Web as an educational tool. Id like to see lots of curricula like >the <a href=" http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html >">MIT Open Courseware >initiative</a> being picked up by K-12, he said. The tricky thing is >that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like >Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as The Font of All Knowledge). >You really need to keep education materials sown together. So Id love >to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, >following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts >to keep these things up to date, but Id [even] like to see teachers >help contribute to it. > >Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with >simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other, he >concluded. And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots >of technology Theres lots of work to do out there. > > >-- >-------------------------------------- >Andy Carvin >Program Director >EDC Center for Media & Community >acarvin @ edc . org >http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org >http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ >-------------------------------------- > Dear Sir, The Web Opac is working fine giving all the details. The Web interface of SLIM++ software is also impressive. One other WebOpac worth looking is that of the Hyderabad based "Indian School of Busienss". Following is the link. Just do a little browsing of the library catalogue and you will apperciate the quantity of information that can be accessed online. <http://www.isb.edu/lrc/index.html> A digital library of documents relating to business management is also available. Regards, SALMAN HAIDER Consultant, Indian School of Business Library (LRC) Hyderabad On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 Jai Haravu wrote : >While congratulating the Gokhale Inst. for putting their library catalogue on the web, I must also express my disappointment that it looks like only the Institute's authorized users can search the OPAC. I think the Institute has such a rich collection of material that it should allow other scholars to at least search its collection and know if a particular publication is available or not. The whole purpose of putting a library's catalogue on the web is defeated if this is not done. > >cid:65519CDA-52A4-4314-A994-7F572CE46607 >L J Haravu >Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management [http://www.kiikm.org/] >69 Krishnapuri Colony >West Marredpally >Sedcunderabad 500 026 >Tel: 91-40-27803947 >-------Original Message------- > > From: >mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Date: >10/01/04 11:12:27 >To: >mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: >LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1 > >Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 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 http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mailto:lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >You can reach the person managing the list at > mailto:lis-forum-owner@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 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. RE: Request for Information (Monali Panchbhai) > 2. Announcement (N Murali) > 3. Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria, > Bangalore-Report (Shalini R. Urs) > 4. FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web > (Subbiah Arunachalam) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:46:50 +0000 > From: "Monali Panchbhai" < mailto:monalipanchbhai@hotmail.com monalipanchbhai(a)hotmail.com > > >Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information >To: mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com, ikishore(a)rediffmail.com, >mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: < mailto:BAY12-F22wGmAf0Mjka0001a01d@hotmail.com BAY12-F22wGmAf0Mjka0001a01d(a)hotmail.com > > >Content-Type: text/plain > >Dear Member, >The facility to restrict copy/paste/print is available through the Latest Acrobat-PDF 6.0 version. >You have to save that document with secutiry option which gives you the facility of the restricting diff. types of rights. >Try doing >Document ---> Security ---> Restrict opening & editing ---> >then set password and select the options for restriciting the rights. >Regards, >Monali Panchbhai >Librarian, >J V Gokal & Com. >Mumbai. > > >From: "Kishore Ingale" < mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com ikishore(a)rediffmail.com > > > >Reply-To: Kishore Ingale < mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com ikishore(a)rediffmail.com > > > >To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information > >Date: 30 Sep 2004 04:34:30 -0000 > > > > > >Dear Colleagues, > > > >We are experimenting with providing access to our digital documents to users through web based server (using Greenstone). Collection mostly include MS WORD and PDF documents. > > > >Is it possible to implement security with which users will be able to view documents but not able to download / save these files at their end.. ? > > > >Kishore Ingale >& mailto:gt;ikishore@rediffmail.com gt;ikishore(a)rediffmail.com > >ForwardSourceID:NT000043C2 > >_______________________________________________ > >LIS-Forum mailing list >& mailto:gt;LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in gt;LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >Millions of profiles from across the globe. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2737??PS=47575 http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2737??PS=47575 >On BharatMatrimony.com > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:01:14 -0700 (PDT) > From: N Murali < mailto:murali_dhara@yahoo.com murali_dhara(a)yahoo.com > > >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Announcement >To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: < mailto:20040930130114.72116.qmail@web51106.mail.yahoo.com 20040930130114.72116.qmail(a)web51106.mail.yahoo.com > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2004 15:07:39 +0100 > From: Prabhash Rath < mailto:prabhash@gipe.ernet.in prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in > > >Subject: Announcement > >Please distribute this message to Lis-forum > >Dear professionals, > >We are happy to inform you that the Gokhale >Institute Library has successfully developed the >bibliographic database of its entire collection >which may be accessed through the following site: > >http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html > >Gokhale Library might be the first to put up >bibliographic details of its entire collection on >the Web under the INFLIBNET automation programme >(1st Oct. 1999 to 30th Sept. 2004). > >A P Gadre >Librarian > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com http://mail.yahoo.com > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:42:27 +0530 (IST) > From: "Shalini R. Urs" < mailto:shalini@vidyanidhi.org.in shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in > > >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria, > Bangalore-Report >To: < mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > >Message-ID: > < mailto:35160.210.212.200.228.1096553547.squirrel@mail.vidyanidhi.org.in 35160.210.212.200.228.1096553547.squirrel(a)mail.vidyanidhi.org.in > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > >UNESCO Interactive Workshop on eBooks, Hotel Atria, Bangalore September >16, 2004 ( http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook >). >---------- >Envisioning the potential of eBooks in promoting and supporting >Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based- student centred >learning, UNESCO is engaged in a project on developing guidelines for >eBooks. The mission of this project is to carry out a scoping and >exploratory study of the eBooks and develop guidelines for the production, >promotion and usage of eBooks. This consultancy project involved three >phases- desk top research; questionnaire based user study and an >Interactive Workshop The Interactive Workshop on eBooks, was organised on >September 16, 2004 and held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore. >The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr.S.Ramakrishanan, Executive Director, >C-DAC, Pune. Dr. Lucy A Tedd of University of Wales gave the keynote and >Dr.Susanne Ornager, Advisor, Communication and Information for Asia and >the Pacific, UNESCO, New Delhi chaired the session. >The invitation only Workshop was an important milestone in the Project, >with more than seventy participants representing the diverse stakeholders >community. There were forty three information professionals; twenty four >end users and technologists; and six from the publishing/aggregator >industry in the Workshop, engaged in interacting, deliberating and >debating on the gamut of issues- from definitions to design to delivery >mechanisms. The format of the Workshop was designed to be interactive with >each session having speakers and a moderator to lead the discussions with >a set of issues/questions. >The inaugural session was followed by three sessions- user and technology >perspective; author and publisher perspective; and aggregator and library >perspective. Prof. R.Kalyana Krishnan of IIT, Chennai, Prof.G.Misra of >Indian Statistical Institute, Mr.Sanjiv Goswami of Springer, >N.V.Sathyanarayana of Informatics India, Dr.Primalini Kukanesan of >National Library of Malaysia and Dr. Deepali Talagala of Sri Lanka Library >Association were the speakers at these sessions. The three sessions were >moderated by Mr. Anand T. Byrappa of GE, Prof. I.K.Ravichandra Rao of >Indian Statistical Institute and Dr.Venkadesan of Indian Institute of >Science respectively. There were product presentations by John Wiley and >Springer. >The Workshop objective of gaining insights from different perspective was >achieved and the interactions helped in drawing meaningful conclusions >and providing the necessary inputs for the drafting of framework for the >guidelines document. >For more detailed report, presentations and details of the Project visit >the website http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------ http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------ > > > > >Dr. Shalini R. Urs >Director >Information and Communication Division >& >Professor and Chairperson >Department of Library and Information Science >University of Mysore >Mysore-570006 >India >Tele:91-821-2514699 >Fax :91-821-2519209 > > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 4 >Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:33:48 +0530 > From: Subbiah Arunachalam < mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in arun(a)mssrf.res.in > > >Subject: [LIS-Forum] FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web >To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: > < mailto:014BE5562FB3D511BA7A00508BCC23D47EF20E@swami.mssrf.res.in 014BE5562FB3D511BA7A00508BCC23D47EF20E(a)swami.mssrf.res.in > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > >Friends: > >Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find >it interesting and useful. Best wishes. > >Arun >[Subbiah Arunachalam] > > >Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web >http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ > >The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a >keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising >a one-hour talk in 30 minutes, Berners-Lee gave an animated, >rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes -- >about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative. > >Berners-Lees early remarks focused on his development of the Web. >Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass >of things being developed on the Internet, including protocols such as >TCP/IP and other standards. All I had to do on top of that to create >the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was >rather arrogant. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web and the idea was >that it would minimally constraining. And HTML, the language he created >to drive the Web, would be the cloth on which a tapestry would be made > the jewels, the colors > >Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions >between them, whats come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come >and gone, new ways of thinking and more recently, wikis and blogs. >The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a >place where we can all meet and read and write. Collaborative things >are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows >theyre [embracing] its creative side. > >But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he >would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Webs >fundamental design, but for various reasons it didnt make the cut. One >thing I wanted to put in the original design was the typing of links, >he said. For example, lets say you link your website to another site. >At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little >information: just an address to get to the other websites content. But >Berners-Lees idea was to include metadata with each hyperlink to >describe the relationship between the two sites. For example: do >the people linking their two websites know each other personally, >professionally, or not at all? If theyre colleagues, how are they >working together, and in what fields? Where are they working? > >When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may >mean, but a machine doesnt, he said. But this idea of embedding large >amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didnt make it into the >original Web standard. Now, hes trying to change that, with an >initiative called the Semantic Web. > >The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web, Berners-Lee >said. As the <a href=" http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ >">World Wide Web >Consortium</a> explains, The Web can reach its full potential only if >it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated >tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs >must be able to share and process data even when these programs have >been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the >idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can >be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, >integration and reuse of data across various applications. > >For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in >ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in >traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I >would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color >should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldnt > do this. Rather, youd tell the website to go to a URL that >defines a universal standard of what that color looks like. So >instead of coding a webpage to say Color=Red, youd say something like >Color= http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 > and your >website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This >would hold true for all data you include in your website: color, >people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs >containing descriptive information about that data. Information would >not be static or absolute; instead its an abstract concept that gets >sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it. > >An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons >initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying >how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has >created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a >persons content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes, >can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owners permission, >etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their >license with different combinations of these elements. When a content >publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their >website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their sites HTML that >refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection >of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such >as the contents redistribution policy. So when search engines and other >automated tools pick up that bloggers website, theyll access these >URLs and understand your copyright policy as you intended it. > >Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. The Web is >a tangle, your life is a tangle get used to it. > >Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online >information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they >share. Thats what its all about connecting things, he said. The >Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online >translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts >of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a >real-world example. Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus >breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases, >he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier. > >Its also helping build powerful social networking tools -- >friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about >themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this >information. Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of >this stuff, Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the >Web and find what were looking for based on what they know about our >needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. A >human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned, he joked. > >Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on >royalty-free technical standards. Standards must be royalty free to >foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. It is very >important that we make sure we are not tripped up by proprietary >standards, he said. With so many ridiculous patents out there, theres >always the threat that an underwater patent will torpedo innovation. > >Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience, >moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe. >Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a play project that his bosses >at Switzerlands CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The >structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working >independently, influenced the structure of the Web. Because it was a >lab, it acted more like a web in itself, so coming up with a virtual >web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of >sense. > >Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet >discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by >fellow scientists. Hypertext wasnt considered real computing, so I >sent it out to alternative news groups, he said. Some people like the >University of Illinois Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with >it; he went on to found Netscape. > >Others were less supportive because they didnt like the technical >structure behind it. Why do I have to use your horrible angle >brackets? they would say to him. > >Do you remember the names of these people? Metcalfe asked rather >mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question. > >Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didnt patent the >standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. Some >people have said, Isnt it a shame all these commercial things came >about? he noted. But most people wanted a commercial browser. The >private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and >academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the >adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted. >Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in >popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started >playing with Mozillas new open source Firefox browser as well. > >Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the >years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of >contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make >all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving >consensus in distributed group projects. If you take little groups, >they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups >together, they dont share their ideas, and have different values >towards how things should be built. This takes a lot more energy than >figuring out how to do it yourself. Making consensus, communicating >with other people is hard work. > >I had the luxury to do this myself with nobody there to object, he >continued. But now were doing things where there are lot of people >interested in getting involved. If you want to do something, do it >yourself. > >As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on >the Web as an educational tool. Id like to see lots of curricula like >the <a href=" http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html >">MIT Open Courseware >initiative</a> being picked up by K-12, he said. The tricky thing is >that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like >Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as The Font of All Knowledge). >You really need to keep education materials sown together. So Id love >to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, >following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts >to keep these things up to date, but Id [even] like to see teachers >help contribute to it. > >Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with >simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other, he >concluded. And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots >of technology Theres lots of work to do out there. > > >-- >-------------------------------------- >Andy Carvin >Program Director >EDC Center for Media & Community >acarvin @ edc . org >http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org >http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ >-------------------------------------- >

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1 Announcement of Gokhale Institute's OPAC on the Web
by Jai Haravu 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

While congratulating the Gokhale Inst. for putting their library catalogue on the web, I must also express my disappointment that it looks like only the Institute's authorized users can search the OPAC. I think the Institute has such a rich collection of material that it should allow other scholars to at least search its collection and know if a particular publication is available or not. The whole purpose of putting a library's catalogue on the web is defeated if this is not done. L J Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management [http://www.kiikm.org/] 69 Krishnapuri Colony West Marredpally Sedcunderabad 500 026 Tel: 91-40-27803947 -------Original Message------- From: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: 10/01/04 11:12:27 To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1 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. RE: Request for Information (Monali Panchbhai) 2. Announcement (N Murali) 3. Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria, Bangalore-Report (Shalini R. Urs) 4. FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web (Subbiah Arunachalam) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:46:50 +0000 From: "Monali Panchbhai" <monalipanchbhai(a)hotmail.com> Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information To: ikishore(a)rediffmail.com, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <BAY12-F22wGmAf0Mjka0001a01d(a)hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Dear Member, The facility to restrict copy/paste/print is available through the Latest Acrobat-PDF 6.0 version. You have to save that document with secutiry option which gives you the facility of the restricting diff. types of rights. Try doing Document ---> Security ---> Restrict opening & editing ---> then set password and select the options for restriciting the rights. Regards, Monali Panchbhai Librarian, J V Gokal & Com. Mumbai. >From: "Kishore Ingale" <ikishore(a)rediffmail.com> >Reply-To: Kishore Ingale <ikishore(a)rediffmail.com> >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information >Date: 30 Sep 2004 04:34:30 -0000 > > >Dear Colleagues, > >We are experimenting with providing access to our digital documents to users through web based server (using Greenstone). Collection mostly include MS WORD and PDF documents. > >Is it possible to implement security with which users will be able to view documents but not able to download / save these files at their end.. ? > >Kishore Ingale >ikishore(a)rediffmail.com >ForwardSourceID:NT000043C2 >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Millions of profiles from across the globe. http://g.msn com/8HMBENIN/2737??PS=47575 On BharatMatrimony.com ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:01:14 -0700 (PDT) From: N Murali <murali_dhara(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Announcement To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20040930130114.72116.qmail(a)web51106.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2004 15:07:39 +0100 From: Prabhash Rath <prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in> Subject: Announcement Please distribute this message to Lis-forum Dear professionals, We are happy to inform you that the Gokhale Institute Library has successfully developed the bibliographic database of its entire collection which may be accessed through the following site: http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html Gokhale Library might be the first to put up bibliographic details of its entire collection on the Web under the INFLIBNET automation programme (1st Oct. 1999 to 30th Sept. 2004). A P Gadre Librarian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:42:27 +0530 (IST) From: "Shalini R. Urs" <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria, Bangalore-Report To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <35160.210.212.200.228.1096553547.squirrel(a)mail.vidyanidhi.org.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 UNESCO Interactive Workshop on eBooks, Hotel Atria, Bangalore September 16, 2004 (http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook) ---------- Envisioning the potential of eBooks in promoting and supporting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based- student centred learning, UNESCO is engaged in a project on developing guidelines for eBooks. The mission of this project is to carry out a scoping and exploratory study of the eBooks and develop guidelines for the production, promotion and usage of eBooks. This consultancy project involved three phases- desk top research; questionnaire based user study and an Interactive Workshop The Interactive Workshop on eBooks, was organised on September 16, 2004 and held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore. The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr.S.Ramakrishanan, Executive Director, C-DAC, Pune. Dr. Lucy A Tedd of University of Wales gave the keynote and Dr.Susanne Ornager, Advisor, Communication and Information for Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO, New Delhi chaired the session. The invitation only Workshop was an important milestone in the Project, with more than seventy participants representing the diverse stakeholders community. There were forty three information professionals; twenty four end users and technologists; and six from the publishing/aggregator industry in the Workshop, engaged in interacting, deliberating and debating on the gamut of issues- from definitions to design to delivery mechanisms. The format of the Workshop was designed to be interactive with each session having speakers and a moderator to lead the discussions with a set of issues/questions. The inaugural session was followed by three sessions- user and technology perspective; author and publisher perspective; and aggregator and library perspective. Prof. R.Kalyana Krishnan of IIT, Chennai, Prof.G.Misra of Indian Statistical Institute, Mr.Sanjiv Goswami of Springer, N.V.Sathyanarayana of Informatics India, Dr.Primalini Kukanesan of National Library of Malaysia and Dr. Deepali Talagala of Sri Lanka Library Association were the speakers at these sessions. The three sessions were moderated by Mr. Anand T. Byrappa of GE, Prof. I.K.Ravichandra Rao of Indian Statistical Institute and Dr.Venkadesan of Indian Institute of Science respectively. There were product presentations by John Wiley and Springer. The Workshop objective of gaining insights from different perspective was achieved and the interactions helped in drawing meaningful conclusions and providing the necessary inputs for the drafting of framework for the guidelines document. For more detailed report, presentations and details of the Project visit the website http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------ Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:33:48 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <014BE5562FB3D511BA7A00508BCC23D47EF20E(a)swami.mssrf.res.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Friends: Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find it interesting and useful. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising a one-hour talk in 30 minutes, Berners-Lee gave an animated, rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes -- about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative. Berners-Lees early remarks focused on his development of the Web. Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass of things being developed on the Internet, including protocols such as TCP/IP and other standards. All I had to do on top of that to create the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was rather arrogant. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web and the idea was that it would minimally constraining. And HTML, the language he created to drive the Web, would be the cloth on which a tapestry would be made the jewels, the colors Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions between them, whats come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come and gone, new ways of thinking and more recently, wikis and blogs. The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a place where we can all meet and read and write. Collaborative things are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows theyre [embracing] its creative side. But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Webs fundamental design, but for various reasons it didnt make the cut. One thing I wanted to put in the original design was the typing of links, he said. For example, lets say you link your website to another site. At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little information: just an address to get to the other websites content. But Berners-Lees idea was to include metadata with each hyperlink to describe the relationship between the two sites. For example: do the people linking their two websites know each other personally, professionally, or not at all? If theyre colleagues, how are they working together, and in what fields? Where are they working? When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may mean, but a machine doesnt, he said. But this idea of embedding large amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didnt make it into the original Web standard. Now, hes trying to change that, with an initiative called the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web, Berners-Lee said. As the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/">World Wide Web Consortium</a> explains, The Web can reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs must be able to share and process data even when these programs have been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications. For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldnt do this. Rather, youd tell the website to go to a URL that defines a universal standard of what that color looks like. So instead of coding a webpage to say Color=Red, youd say something like Color=http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 and your website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This would hold true for all data you include in your website: color, people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs containing descriptive information about that data. Information would not be static or absolute; instead its an abstract concept that gets sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it. An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a persons content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes, can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owners permission, etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their license with different combinations of these elements. When a content publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their sites HTML that refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such as the contents redistribution policy. So when search engines and other automated tools pick up that bloggers website, theyll access these URLs and understand your copyright policy as you intended it. Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. The Web is a tangle, your life is a tangle get used to it. Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they share. Thats what its all about connecting things, he said. The Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a real-world example. Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases, he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier. Its also helping build powerful social networking tools -- friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this information. Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of this stuff, Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the Web and find what were looking for based on what they know about our needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. A human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned, he joked. Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on royalty-free technical standards. Standards must be royalty free to foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. It is very important that we make sure we are not tripped up by proprietary standards, he said. With so many ridiculous patents out there, theres always the threat that an underwater patent will torpedo innovation. Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience, moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe. Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a play project that his bosses at Switzerlands CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working independently, influenced the structure of the Web. Because it was a lab, it acted more like a web in itself, so coming up with a virtual web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of sense. Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by fellow scientists. Hypertext wasnt considered real computing, so I sent it out to alternative news groups, he said. Some people like the University of Illinois Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with it; he went on to found Netscape. Others were less supportive because they didnt like the technical structure behind it. Why do I have to use your horrible angle brackets? they would say to him. Do you remember the names of these people? Metcalfe asked rather mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question. Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didnt patent the standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. Some people have said, Isnt it a shame all these commercial things came about? he noted. But most people wanted a commercial browser. The private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted. Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started playing with Mozillas new open source Firefox browser as well. Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving consensus in distributed group projects. If you take little groups, they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups together, they dont share their ideas, and have different values towards how things should be built. This takes a lot more energy than figuring out how to do it yourself. Making consensus, communicating with other people is hard work. I had the luxury to do this myself with nobody there to object, he continued. But now were doing things where there are lot of people interested in getting involved. If you want to do something, do it yourself. As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on the Web as an educational tool. Id like to see lots of curricula like the <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html">MIT Open Courseware initiative</a> being picked up by K-12, he said. The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as The Font of All Knowledge). You really need to keep education materials sown together. So Id love to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts to keep these things up to date, but Id [even] like to see teachers help contribute to it. Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other, he concluded. And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots of technology Theres lots of work to do out there. -- -------------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ -------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web Friends: Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find it interesting and useful. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject org/andy/blog/ The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising a one-hour talk in 30 minutes, Berners-Lee gave an animated, rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes -- about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative. Berners-Lees early remarks focused on his development of the Web. Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass of things being developed on the Internet, including protocols such as TCP/IP and other standards. All I had to do on top of that to create the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was rather arrogant. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web and the idea was that it would minimally constraining. And HTML, the language he created to drive the Web, would be the cloth on which a tapestry would be made the jewels, the colors Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions between them, whats come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come and gone, new ways of thinking and more recently, wikis and blogs. The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a place where we can all meet and read and write. Collaborative things are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows theyre [embracing] its creative side. But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Webs fundamental design, but for various reasons it didnt make the cut. One thing I wanted to put in the original design was the typing of links, he said. For example, lets say you link your website to another site. At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little information: just an address to get to the other websites content. But Berners-Lees idea was to include metadata with each hyperlink to describe the relationship between the two sites. For example: do the people linking their two websites know each other personally, professionally, or not at all? If theyre colleagues, how are they working together, and in what fields? Where are they working? When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may mean, but a machine doesnt, he said. But this idea of embedding large amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didnt make it into the original Web standard. Now, hes trying to change that, with an initiative called the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web, Berners-Lee said. As the <a href=" http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3 org/2001/sw/ ">World Wide Web Consortium</a> explains, The Web can reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs must be able to share and process data even when these programs have been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications. For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldnt do this. Rather, youd tell the website to go to a URL that defines a universal standard of what that color looks like. So instead of coding a webpage to say Color=Red, youd say something like Color= http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 and your website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This would hold true for all data you include in your website: color, people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs containing descriptive information about that data. Information would not be static or absolute; instead its an abstract concept that gets sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it. An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a persons content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes, can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owners permission, etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their license with different combinations of these elements. When a content publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their sites HTML that refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such as the contents redistribution policy. So when search engines and other automated tools pick up that bloggers website, theyll access these URLs and understand your copyright policy as you intended it. Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. The Web is a tangle, your life is a tangle get used to it. Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they share. Thats what its all about connecting things, he said. The Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a real-world example. Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases, he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier. Its also helping build powerful social networking tools -- friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this information. Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of this stuff, Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the Web and find what were looking for based on what they know about our needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. A human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned, he joked. Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on royalty-free technical standards. Standards must be royalty free to foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. It is very important that we make sure we are not tripped up by proprietary standards, he said. With so many ridiculous patents out there, theres always the threat that an underwater patent will torpedo innovation. Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience, moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe. Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a play project that his bosses at Switzerlands CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working independently, influenced the structure of the Web. Because it was a lab, it acted more like a web in itself, so coming up with a virtual web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of sense. Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by fellow scientists. Hypertext wasnt considered real computing, so I sent it out to alternative news groups, he said. Some people like the University of Illinois Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with it; he went on to found Netscape. Others were less supportive because they didnt like the technical structure behind it. Why do I have to use your horrible angle brackets? they would say to him. Do you remember the names of these people? Metcalfe asked rather mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question. Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didnt patent the standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. Some people have said, Isnt it a shame all these commercial things came about? he noted. But most people wanted a commercial browser. The private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted. Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started playing with Mozillas new open source Firefox browser as well. Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving consensus in distributed group projects. If you take little groups, they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups together, they dont share their ideas, and have different values towards how things should be built. This takes a lot more energy than figuring out how to do it yourself. Making consensus, communicating with other people is hard work. I had the luxury to do this myself with nobody there to object, he continued. But now were doing things where there are lot of people interested in getting involved. If you want to do something, do it yourself. As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on the Web as an educational tool. Id like to see lots of curricula like the <a href=" http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html ">MIT Open Courseware initiative</a> being picked up by K-12, he said. The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as The Font of All Knowledge). You really need to keep education materials sown together. So Id love to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts to keep these things up to date, but Id [even] like to see teachers help contribute to it. Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other, he concluded. And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots of technology Theres lots of work to do out there. -- -------------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject org/andy/blog/ -------------------------------------- ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum End of LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1 **************************************** While congratulating the Gokhale Inst. for putting their library catalogue on the web, I must also express my disappointment that it looks like only the Institute's authorized users can search the OPAC. I think the Institute has such a rich collection of material that it should allow other scholars to at least search its collection and know if a particular publication is available or not. The whole purpose of putting a library's catalogue on the web is defeated if this is not done. cid:65519CDA-52A4-4314-A994-7F572CE46607 L J Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management [http://www.kiikm.org/] 69 Krishnapuri Colony West Marredpally Sedcunderabad 500 026 Tel: 91-40-27803947 -------Original Message------- From: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: 10/01/04 11:12:27 To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 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 http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mailto:lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at mailto:lis-forum-owner@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 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. RE: Request for Information (Monali Panchbhai) 2. Announcement (N Murali) 3. Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria, Bangalore-Report (Shalini R. Urs) 4. FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web (Subbiah Arunachalam) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:46:50 +0000 From: "Monali Panchbhai" < mailto:monalipanchbhai@hotmail.com monalipanchbhai(a)hotmail.com > Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information To: mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com, ikishore(a)rediffmail.com, mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: < mailto:BAY12-F22wGmAf0Mjka0001a01d@hotmail.com BAY12-F22wGmAf0Mjka0001a01d(a)hotmail.com > Content-Type: text/plain Dear Member, The facility to restrict copy/paste/print is available through the Latest Acrobat-PDF 6.0 version. You have to save that document with secutiry option which gives you the facility of the restricting diff. types of rights. Try doing Document ---> Security ---> Restrict opening & editing ---> then set password and select the options for restriciting the rights. Regards, Monali Panchbhai Librarian, J V Gokal & Com. Mumbai. >From: "Kishore Ingale" < mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com ikishore(a)rediffmail.com > >Reply-To: Kishore Ingale < mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com ikishore(a)rediffmail.com > >To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information >Date: 30 Sep 2004 04:34:30 -0000 > > >Dear Colleagues, > >We are experimenting with providing access to our digital documents to users through web based server (using Greenstone). Collection mostly include MS WORD and PDF documents. > >Is it possible to implement security with which users will be able to view documents but not able to download / save these files at their end.. ? > >Kishore Ingale & mailto:gt;ikishore@rediffmail.com gt;ikishore(a)rediffmail.com >ForwardSourceID:NT000043C2 >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list & mailto:gt;LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in gt;LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Millions of profiles from across the globe. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2737??PS=47575 http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2737??PS=47575 On BharatMatrimony.com ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:01:14 -0700 (PDT) From: N Murali < mailto:murali_dhara@yahoo.com murali_dhara(a)yahoo.com > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Announcement To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: < mailto:20040930130114.72116.qmail@web51106.mail.yahoo.com 20040930130114.72116.qmail(a)web51106.mail.yahoo.com > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2004 15:07:39 +0100 From: Prabhash Rath < mailto:prabhash@gipe.ernet.in prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in > Subject: Announcement Please distribute this message to Lis-forum Dear professionals, We are happy to inform you that the Gokhale Institute Library has successfully developed the bibliographic database of its entire collection which may be accessed through the following site: http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html Gokhale Library might be the first to put up bibliographic details of its entire collection on the Web under the INFLIBNET automation programme (1st Oct. 1999 to 30th Sept. 2004). A P Gadre Librarian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:42:27 +0530 (IST) From: "Shalini R. Urs" < mailto:shalini@vidyanidhi.org.in shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria, Bangalore-Report To: < mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: < mailto:35160.210.212.200.228.1096553547.squirrel@mail.vidyanidhi.org.in 35160.210.212.200.228.1096553547.squirrel(a)mail.vidyanidhi.org.in > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 UNESCO Interactive Workshop on eBooks, Hotel Atria, Bangalore September 16, 2004 ( http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook ). ---------- Envisioning the potential of eBooks in promoting and supporting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based- student centred learning, UNESCO is engaged in a project on developing guidelines for eBooks. The mission of this project is to carry out a scoping and exploratory study of the eBooks and develop guidelines for the production, promotion and usage of eBooks. This consultancy project involved three phases- desk top research; questionnaire based user study and an Interactive Workshop The Interactive Workshop on eBooks, was organised on September 16, 2004 and held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore. The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr.S.Ramakrishanan, Executive Director, C-DAC, Pune. Dr. Lucy A Tedd of University of Wales gave the keynote and Dr.Susanne Ornager, Advisor, Communication and Information for Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO, New Delhi chaired the session. The invitation only Workshop was an important milestone in the Project, with more than seventy participants representing the diverse stakeholders community. There were forty three information professionals; twenty four end users and technologists; and six from the publishing/aggregator industry in the Workshop, engaged in interacting, deliberating and debating on the gamut of issues- from definitions to design to delivery mechanisms. The format of the Workshop was designed to be interactive with each session having speakers and a moderator to lead the discussions with a set of issues/questions. The inaugural session was followed by three sessions- user and technology perspective; author and publisher perspective; and aggregator and library perspective. Prof. R.Kalyana Krishnan of IIT, Chennai, Prof.G.Misra of Indian Statistical Institute, Mr.Sanjiv Goswami of Springer, N.V.Sathyanarayana of Informatics India, Dr.Primalini Kukanesan of National Library of Malaysia and Dr. Deepali Talagala of Sri Lanka Library Association were the speakers at these sessions. The three sessions were moderated by Mr. Anand T. Byrappa of GE, Prof. I.K.Ravichandra Rao of Indian Statistical Institute and Dr.Venkadesan of Indian Institute of Science respectively. There were product presentations by John Wiley and Springer. The Workshop objective of gaining insights from different perspective was achieved and the interactions helped in drawing meaningful conclusions and providing the necessary inputs for the drafting of framework for the guidelines document. For more detailed report, presentations and details of the Project visit the website http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------ http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------ Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:33:48 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam < mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in arun(a)mssrf.res.in > Subject: [LIS-Forum] FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: < mailto:014BE5562FB3D511BA7A00508BCC23D47EF20E@swami.mssrf.res.in 014BE5562FB3D511BA7A00508BCC23D47EF20E(a)swami.mssrf.res.in > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Friends: Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find it interesting and useful. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising a one-hour talk in 30 minutes, Berners-Lee gave an animated, rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes -- about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative. Berners-Lees early remarks focused on his development of the Web. Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass of things being developed on the Internet, including protocols such as TCP/IP and other standards. All I had to do on top of that to create the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was rather arrogant. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web and the idea was that it would minimally constraining. And HTML, the language he created to drive the Web, would be the cloth on which a tapestry would be made the jewels, the colors Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions between them, whats come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come and gone, new ways of thinking and more recently, wikis and blogs. The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a place where we can all meet and read and write. Collaborative things are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows theyre [embracing] its creative side. But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Webs fundamental design, but for various reasons it didnt make the cut. One thing I wanted to put in the original design was the typing of links, he said. For example, lets say you link your website to another site. At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little information: just an address to get to the other websites content. But Berners-Lees idea was to include metadata with each hyperlink to describe the relationship between the two sites. For example: do the people linking their two websites know each other personally, professionally, or not at all? If theyre colleagues, how are they working together, and in what fields? Where are they working? When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may mean, but a machine doesnt, he said. But this idea of embedding large amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didnt make it into the original Web standard. Now, hes trying to change that, with an initiative called the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web, Berners-Lee said. As the <a href=" http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ ">World Wide Web Consortium</a> explains, The Web can reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs must be able to share and process data even when these programs have been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications. For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldnt do this. Rather, youd tell the website to go to a URL that defines a universal standard of what that color looks like. So instead of coding a webpage to say Color=Red, youd say something like Color= http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 and your website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This would hold true for all data you include in your website: color, people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs containing descriptive information about that data. Information would not be static or absolute; instead its an abstract concept that gets sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it. An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a persons content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes, can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owners permission, etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their license with different combinations of these elements. When a content publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their sites HTML that refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such as the contents redistribution policy. So when search engines and other automated tools pick up that bloggers website, theyll access these URLs and understand your copyright policy as you intended it. Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. The Web is a tangle, your life is a tangle get used to it. Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they share. Thats what its all about connecting things, he said. The Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a real-world example. Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases, he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier. Its also helping build powerful social networking tools -- friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this information. Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of this stuff, Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the Web and find what were looking for based on what they know about our needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. A human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned, he joked. Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on royalty-free technical standards. Standards must be royalty free to foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. It is very important that we make sure we are not tripped up by proprietary standards, he said. With so many ridiculous patents out there, theres always the threat that an underwater patent will torpedo innovation. Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience, moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe. Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a play project that his bosses at Switzerlands CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working independently, influenced the structure of the Web. Because it was a lab, it acted more like a web in itself, so coming up with a virtual web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of sense. Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by fellow scientists. Hypertext wasnt considered real computing, so I sent it out to alternative news groups, he said. Some people like the University of Illinois Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with it; he went on to found Netscape. Others were less supportive because they didnt like the technical structure behind it. Why do I have to use your horrible angle brackets? they would say to him. Do you remember the names of these people? Metcalfe asked rather mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question. Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didnt patent the standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. Some people have said, Isnt it a shame all these commercial things came about? he noted. But most people wanted a commercial browser. The private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted. Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started playing with Mozillas new open source Firefox browser as well. Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving consensus in distributed group projects. If you take little groups, they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups together, they dont share their ideas, and have different values towards how things should be built. This takes a lot more energy than figuring out how to do it yourself. Making consensus, communicating with other people is hard work. I had the luxury to do this myself with nobody there to object, he continued. But now were doing things where there are lot of people interested in getting involved. If you want to do something, do it yourself. As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on the Web as an educational tool. Id like to see lots of curricula like the <a href=" http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html ">MIT Open Courseware initiative</a> being picked up by K-12, he said. The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as The Font of All Knowledge). You really need to keep education materials sown together. So Id love to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts to keep these things up to date, but Id [even] like to see teachers help contribute to it. Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other, he concluded. And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots of technology Theres lots of work to do out there. -- -------------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ --------------------------------------

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Library Traineeship in the Resource Centre at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
by ts kumbar 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Dear Colleagues, Kindly bring it to the notice of interested Graduates in Library and Information Science and recommend potential candidates. Regards Dr. Kumbar Resource centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar. Gujarat Dear Sir/Madam, We take this opportunity to inform you that Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), situated at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is promoted by the Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation. It has been established on a 50-acre of land in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The Government of Gujarat has granted it the University Status under the State Act. The Institute has started functioning since August 2001 with a batch size of 240 students at Undergraduate level in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It also offers a variety of masters' and doctoral programs in ICT and allied areas. The Institute takes young and dynamic postgraduate freshers with minimum first class in Library Science, well versed in Computer application to Library Services.Duration of Training is for a period of 10 months. However, guarantee of continued employment cannot be given. The trainees gets a fixed stipend between Rs.5000 to Rs.6000 depending on their quality etc, per month with no other facilities / benefits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting casual leave. Library is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and is open on holidays and Sundays. Selected trainees may have to work during these extended hours on rotation basis. Based on sustained and good performance the trainees can be given regular positions. The remuneration for the regular position is at par with the leading Institutions across the country. The Institute has fully computerized Library and provides access to digital collection, catering to the needs of the Faculty/ Staff and students. Plans are on to convert this library into a complete Digital Library. Recently our library has implemented the electromagnetic technology based security system. The interested students are requested to send in their biodata via email at ts_kumbar(a)da-iict.org and directly come to the Institute for a written test and the interview on the 18h October 2004 at 9.00am . The biodata and confirmation about attending the test and interview should reach on or before 14th October, 2004. Yours sincerely Executive Registrar Dhirubhai Ambani Instiute of Information and Communication Technology Post Bag. No.4 Near Indroda Circle Gandhinagar 382009 Gujarat ================================================================= Dear Colleagues, Kindly bring it to the notice of interested Graduates in Library and Information Science and recommend potential candidates. Regards Dr. Kumbar Resource centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar. Gujarat Dear Sir/Madam, We take this opportunity to inform you that Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), situated at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is promoted by the Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation. It has been established on a 50-acre of land in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The Government of Gujarat has granted it the University Status under the State Act. The Institute has started functioning since August 2001 with a batch size of 240 students at Undergraduate level in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It also offers a variety of masters’ and doctoral programs in ICT and allied areas. The Institute takes young and dynamic postgraduate freshers with minimum first class in Library Science, well versed in Computer application to Library Services.Duration of Training is for a period of 10 months. However, guarantee of continued employment cannot be given. The trainees gets a fixed stipend between Rs.5000 to Rs.6000 depending on their quality etc, per month with no other facilities / benefits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting casual leave. Library is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and is open on holidays and Sundays. Selected trainees may have to work during these extended hours on rotation basis. Based on sustained and good performance the trainees can be given regular positions. The remuneration for the regular position is at par with the leading Institutions across the country. The Institute has fully computerized Library and provides access to digital collection, catering to the needs of the Faculty/ Staff and students. Plans are on to convert this library into a complete Digital Library. Recently our library has implemented the electromagnetic technology based security system. The interested students are requested to send in their biodata via email at mailto:ts_kumbar@da-iict.org ts_kumbar(a)da-iict.org and directly come to the Institute for a written test and the interview on the 18h October 2004 at 9.00am . The biodata and confirmation about attending the test and interview should reach on or before 14th October, 2004. Yours sincerely Executive Registrar Dhirubhai Ambani Instiute of Information and Communication Technology Post Bag. No.4 Near Indroda Circle Gandhinagar 382009 Gujarat =================================================================

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Vivisimo Launches New Clusty Search Engine
by Farooque Shaheen 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Clusty offers several different categories of search; initial search categories include News, Web, Images, and Gossip . A Customize! tab gives you the option to add eBay, Slashdot, or Blogs search tabs –You can also create your own search tabs (which didn’t work in Opera but worked okay in Mozilla); you’re given a list of available search engines and you can check which ones you want to include in your custom tab. Nice to see resources like Gigablast and Librarian’s Index to the Internet included here. You can get it at http://www.clusty.com ; as you might suspect it’s in beta. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Sr. Executive- Information Services Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bangalore, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-080-34007449

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FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Friends: Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find it interesting and useful. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising “a one-hour talk in 30 minutes,” Berners-Lee gave an animated, rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes -- about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative. Berners-Lee’s early remarks focused on his development of the Web. “Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass of things being developed on the Internet,” including protocols such as TCP/IP and other standards. “All I had to do on top of that to create the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was rather arrogant…. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web… and the idea was that it would minimally constraining.” And HTML, the language he created to drive the Web, would be “the cloth on which a tapestry would be made – the jewels, the colors…” Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions between them, what’s come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come and gone, new ways of thinking – and more recently, wikis and blogs. “The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a place where we can all meet and read and write…. Collaborative things are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows they’re [embracing] its creative side.” But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Web’s fundamental design, but for various reasons it didn’t make the cut. “One thing I wanted to put in the original design was the ‘typing’ of links,” he said. For example, let’s say you link your website to another site. At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little information: just an address to get to the other website’s content. But Berners-Lee’s idea was to include “metadata” with each hyperlink to describe the relationship between the two sites. For example: do the people linking their two websites know each other personally, professionally, or not at all? If they’re colleagues, how are they working together, and in what fields? Where are they working? “When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may mean, but a machine doesn’t,” he said. But this idea of embedding large amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didn’t make it into the original Web standard. Now, he’s trying to change that, with an initiative called the Semantic Web. “The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web,” Berners-Lee said. As the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/">World Wide Web Consortium</a> explains, “The Web can reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs must be able to share and process data even when these programs have been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications.” For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldn’t do this. Rather, you’d tell the website to go to a URL that defines a universal standard of what that color looks like. So instead of coding a webpage to say “Color=Red,” you’d say something like “Color=http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2” and your website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This would hold true for all data you include in your website: color, people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs containing descriptive information about that data. Information would not be static or absolute; instead it’s “an abstract concept” that gets sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it. An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a person’s content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes, can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owner’s permission, etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their license with different combinations of these elements. When a content publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their site’s HTML that refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such as the content’s redistribution policy. So when search engines and other automated tools pick up that blogger’s website, they’ll access these URLs and “understand” your copyright policy as you intended it. Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. “The Web is a tangle, your life is a tangle – get used to it.” Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they share. “That’s what it’s all about – connecting things,” he said. The Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a real-world example. “Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases,” he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier. It’s also helping build powerful social networking tools -- friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this information. “Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of this stuff,” Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the Web and find what we’re looking for based on what they know about our needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. “A human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned,” he joked. Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on royalty-free technical standards. “Standards must be royalty free” to foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. “It is very important that we make sure we are not tripped up” by proprietary standards, he said. “With so many ridiculous patents out there, there’s always the threat” that an “underwater patent will torpedo innovation.” Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience, moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe. Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a “play project” that his bosses at Switzerland’s CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working independently, influenced the structure of the Web. “Because it was a lab, it acted more like a web in itself,” so coming up with a virtual web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of sense. Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by fellow scientists. “Hypertext wasn’t considered ‘real’ computing, so I sent it out to alternative news groups,” he said. Some people like the University of Illinois’ Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with it; he went on to found Netscape. Others were less supportive because they didn’t like the technical structure behind it. “Why do I have to use your horrible angle brackets?” they would say to him. “Do you remember the names of these people?” Metcalfe asked rather mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question. Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didn’t patent the standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. “Some people have said, ‘Isn’t it a shame all these commercial things came about?’” he noted. “But most people wanted a commercial browser.” The private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted. Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started playing with Mozilla’s new open source Firefox browser as well. Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving consensus in distributed group projects. “If you take little groups, they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups together, they don’t share their ideas, and have different values towards how things should be built…. This takes a lot more energy than figuring out how to do it yourself…. Making consensus, communicating with other people is hard work.” “I had the luxury to do this myself… with nobody there to object,” he continued. “But now we’re doing things … where there are lot of people interested in getting involved. … If you want to do something, do it yourself.” As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on the Web as an educational tool. “I’d like to see lots of curricula like the <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html">MIT Open Courseware initiative</a> being picked up by K-12,” he said. “The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as “The Font of All Knowledge”). You really need to keep education materials sown together. So I’d love to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts to keep these things up to date, but I’d [even] like to see teachers help contribute to it.” “Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other,” he concluded. “And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots of technology… There’s lots of work to do out there.” -- -------------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ -------------------------------------- FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web Friends: Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find it interesting and useful. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising “a one-hour talk in 30 minutes,” Berners-Lee gave an animated, rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes -- about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative. Berners-Lee’s early remarks focused on his development of the Web. “Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass of things being developed on the Internet,” including protocols such as TCP/IP and other standards. “All I had to do on top of that to create the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was rather arrogant…. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web… and the idea was that it would minimally constraining.” And HTML, the language he created to drive the Web, would be “the cloth on which a tapestry would be made – the jewels, the colors…” Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions between them, what’s come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come and gone, new ways of thinking – and more recently, wikis and blogs. “The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a place where we can all meet and read and write…. Collaborative things are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows they’re [embracing] its creative side.” But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Web’s fundamental design, but for various reasons it didn’t make the cut. “One thing I wanted to put in the original design was the ‘typing’ of links,” he said. For example, let’s say you link your website to another site. At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little information: just an address to get to the other website’s content. But Berners-Lee’s idea was to include “metadata” with each hyperlink to describe the relationship between the two sites. For example: do the people linking their two websites know each other personally, professionally, or not at all? If they’re colleagues, how are they working together, and in what fields? Where are they working? “When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may mean, but a machine doesn’t,” he said. But this idea of embedding large amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didn’t make it into the original Web standard. Now, he’s trying to change that, with an initiative called the Semantic Web. “The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web,” Berners-Lee said. As the <a href=" http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ ">World Wide Web Consortium</a> explains, “The Web can reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs must be able to share and process data even when these programs have been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications.” For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldn’t do this. Rather, you’d tell the website to go to a URL that defines a universal standard of what that color looks like. So instead of coding a webpage to say “Color=Red,” you’d say something like “Color= http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 ” and your website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This would hold true for all data you include in your website: color, people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs containing descriptive information about that data. Information would not be static or absolute; instead it’s “an abstract concept” that gets sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it. An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a person’s content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes, can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owner’s permission, etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their license with different combinations of these elements. When a content publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their site’s HTML that refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such as the content’s redistribution policy. So when search engines and other automated tools pick up that blogger’s website, they’ll access these URLs and “understand” your copyright policy as you intended it. Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. “The Web is a tangle, your life is a tangle – get used to it.” Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they share. “That’s what it’s all about – connecting things,” he said. The Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a real-world example. “Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases,” he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier. It’s also helping build powerful social networking tools -- friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this information. “Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of this stuff,” Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the Web and find what we’re looking for based on what they know about our needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. “A human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned,” he joked. Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on royalty-free technical standards. “Standards must be royalty free” to foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. “It is very important that we make sure we are not tripped up” by proprietary standards, he said. “With so many ridiculous patents out there, there’s always the threat” that an “underwater patent will torpedo innovation.” Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience, moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe. Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a “play project” that his bosses at Switzerland’s CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working independently, influenced the structure of the Web. “Because it was a lab, it acted more like a web in itself,” so coming up with a virtual web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of sense. Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by fellow scientists. “Hypertext wasn’t considered ‘real’ computing, so I sent it out to alternative news groups,” he said. Some people like the University of Illinois’ Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with it; he went on to found Netscape. Others were less supportive because they didn’t like the technical structure behind it. “Why do I have to use your horrible angle brackets?” they would say to him. “Do you remember the names of these people?” Metcalfe asked rather mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question. Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didn’t patent the standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. “Some people have said, ‘Isn’t it a shame all these commercial things came about?’” he noted. “But most people wanted a commercial browser.” The private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted. Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started playing with Mozilla’s new open source Firefox browser as well. Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving consensus in distributed group projects. “If you take little groups, they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups together, they don’t share their ideas, and have different values towards how things should be built…. This takes a lot more energy than figuring out how to do it yourself…. Making consensus, communicating with other people is hard work.” “I had the luxury to do this myself… with nobody there to object,” he continued. “But now we’re doing things … where there are lot of people interested in getting involved. … If you want to do something, do it yourself.” As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on the Web as an educational tool. “I’d like to see lots of curricula like the <a href=" http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html ">MIT Open Courseware initiative</a> being picked up by K-12,” he said. “The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as “The Font of All Knowledge”). You really need to keep education materials sown together. So I’d love to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts to keep these things up to date, but I’d [even] like to see teachers help contribute to it.” “Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other,” he concluded. “And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots of technology… There’s lots of work to do out there.” -- -------------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ --------------------------------------

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Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Eme rging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Friends: I received this message today in the mail. Some of you may find the information useful. Best wishes. Arun ---- Subject: Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use A report from USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future. Here's a snippet from the press release: "Among the findings from Year Four of the Digital Future Project: * Internet access has risen to its highest level ever. About three-quarters of Americans now go online. * The number of hours spent online continues to increase, rising to an average of 12.5 hours per week - the highest level in the study thus far. * Although the Internet has become the most important source of current information for users, the initially high level of credibility of information on the Internet began to drop in the third year of the study, and declined even further in Year Four. * The number of users who believe that only about half of the information on the Internet is accurate and reliable is growing and has now passed 40 percent of users for the first time. * The study showed that most users trust information on the websites they visit regularly, and on pages created by established media and the government. * Information pages posted by individuals have the lowest credibility: only 9.5 percent of users say information on those sites is reliable and accurate. * Television viewing continues to decline among Internet users, raising the question: "What will happen as a nation that once spent an extremely large portion of time in a passive activity (watching television) transfers increasingly large portions of that time to an interactive activity (the Internet)?" Read more at: http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTypeI d=1http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTy peId=1 or the tiny version: http://tinyurl.com/54n84 (found via Instructional Technology Resources and Musings: http://mariettatitleiii.blogspot.com/) Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use Friends: I received this message today in the mail. Some of you may find the information useful. Best wishes. Arun ---- Subject: Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use A report from USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future. Here's a snippet from the press release: "Among the findings from Year Four of the Digital Future Project: * Internet access has risen to its highest level ever. About three-quarters of Americans now go online. * The number of hours spent online continues to increase, rising to an average of 12.5 hours per week - the highest level in the study thus far. * Although the Internet has become the most important source of current information for users, the initially high level of credibility of information on the Internet began to drop in the third year of the study, and declined even further in Year Four. * The number of users who believe that only about half of the information on the Internet is accurate and reliable is growing and has now passed 40 percent of users for the first time. * The study showed that most users trust information on the websites they visit regularly, and on pages created by established media and the government. * Information pages posted by individuals have the lowest credibility: only 9.5 percent of users say information on those sites is reliable and accurate. * Television viewing continues to decline among Internet users, raising the question: "What will happen as a nation that once spent an extremely large portion of time in a passive activity (watching television) transfers increasingly large portions of that time to an interactive activity (the Internet)?" Read more at: http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTypeI http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTypeI d=1 http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTy http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTy peId=1 or the tiny version: http://tinyurl.com/54n84 http://tinyurl.com/54n84 (found via Instructional Technology Resources and Musings: http://mariettatitleiii.blogspot.com/ http://mariettatitleiii.blogspot.com/ )

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Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria, Bangalore-Report
by Shalini R. Urs 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

UNESCO Interactive Workshop on eBooks, Hotel Atria, Bangalore September 16, 2004 (http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook) ---------- Envisioning the potential of eBooks in promoting and supporting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based- student centred learning, UNESCO is engaged in a project on developing guidelines for eBooks. The mission of this project is to carry out a scoping and exploratory study of the eBooks and develop guidelines for the production, promotion and usage of eBooks. This consultancy project involved three phases- desk top research; questionnaire based user study and an Interactive Workshop The Interactive Workshop on eBooks, was organised on September 16, 2004 and held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore. The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr.S.Ramakrishanan, Executive Director, C-DAC, Pune. Dr. Lucy A Tedd of University of Wales gave the keynote and Dr.Susanne Ornager, Advisor, Communication and Information for Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO, New Delhi chaired the session. The invitation only Workshop was an important milestone in the Project, with more than seventy participants representing the diverse stakeholders community. There were forty three information professionals; twenty four end users and technologists; and six from the publishing/aggregator industry in the Workshop, engaged in interacting, deliberating and debating on the gamut of issues- from definitions to design to delivery mechanisms. The format of the Workshop was designed to be interactive with each session having speakers and a moderator to lead the discussions with a set of issues/questions. The inaugural session was followed by three sessions- user and technology perspective; author and publisher perspective; and aggregator and library perspective. Prof. R.Kalyana Krishnan of IIT, Chennai, Prof.G.Misra of Indian Statistical Institute, Mr.Sanjiv Goswami of Springer, N.V.Sathyanarayana of Informatics India, Dr.Primalini Kukanesan of National Library of Malaysia and Dr. Deepali Talagala of Sri Lanka Library Association were the speakers at these sessions. The three sessions were moderated by Mr. Anand T. Byrappa of GE, Prof. I.K.Ravichandra Rao of Indian Statistical Institute and Dr.Venkadesan of Indian Institute of Science respectively. There were product presentations by John Wiley and Springer. The Workshop objective of gaining insights from different perspective was achieved and the interactions helped in drawing meaningful conclusions and providing the necessary inputs for the drafting of framework for the guidelines document. For more detailed report, presentations and details of the Project visit the website http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------ Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209

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Announcement
by N Murali 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2004 15:07:39 +0100 From: Prabhash Rath <prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in> Subject: Announcement Please distribute this message to Lis-forum Dear professionals, We are happy to inform you that the Gokhale Institute Library has successfully developed the bibliographic database of its entire collection which may be accessed through the following site: http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html Gokhale Library might be the first to put up bibliographic details of its entire collection on the Web under the INFLIBNET automation programme (1st Oct. 1999 to 30th Sept. 2004). A P Gadre Librarian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information
by Monali Panchbhai 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

Dear Member, The facility to restrict copy/paste/print is available through the Latest Acrobat-PDF 6.0 version. You have to save that document with secutiry option which gives you the facility of the restricting diff. types of rights. Try doing Document ---> Security ---> Restrict opening & editing ---> then set password and select the options for restriciting the rights. Regards, Monali Panchbhai Librarian, J V Gokal & Com. Mumbai. >From: "Kishore Ingale" <ikishore(a)rediffmail.com> >Reply-To: Kishore Ingale <ikishore(a)rediffmail.com> >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information >Date: 30 Sep 2004 04:34:30 -0000 > > >Dear Colleagues, > >We are experimenting with providing access to our digital documents to users through web based server (using Greenstone). Collection mostly include MS WORD and PDF documents. > >Is it possible to implement security with which users will be able to view documents but not able to download / save these files at their end.. ? > >Kishore Ingale >ikishore(a)rediffmail.com >ForwardSourceID:NT000043C2 >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Millions of profiles from across the globe. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2737??PS=47575 On BharatMatrimony.com

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