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Re: [LIS-Forum] Bookstores vs Public Libraries
by Dinesh K. Gupta 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

Nice to read about " What we can learn from book stores", but, another article looks a little further "Stores and Libraries: Both Serve Customers!" http://www.infotoday.com/mls/jan02/koontz.htm In author's own words: "I am walking through a shopping mall, thinking about libraries, thinking about retail storesthinking how we are alike, and what we can learn from each other. There are some obvious similarities." These papers put us to think beyond our traditional boundaries. Regards, Dinesh K. Gupta Associate Prof. & Head, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Sc., VM Open University, Kota-324010 Ph. 0744-2471412 (R) 0744-2470106 (O) E-mail: dineshkg(a)sancharnet.in -----Original Message----- From: Madhuresh <madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; knowinfo(a)yahoogroups.com <knowinfo(a)yahoogroups.com> Cc: india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr <india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr>; nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com> Date: Friday, September 12, 2003 5:26 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Bookstores vs Public Libraries >Hello All, > >There is a nice article entitled "What libraries can learn from >bookstores: Applying the bookstore model to public libraries" recently >appeared (2 days ago) at the following URL >http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/marketing/bookstore.html > >The article talks about the difference and comparison between Public >Library and Bookstore with some good pointers. The situations given in >the article are not yet implemented/relevant for India but still people >can know some ongoing trends or can modeled their library. > >Regards, >Madhuresh Singhal >Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, >Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, >Bangalore 562 158 >Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 >Mobile 98861 82822 >Fax 852 6285 >E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com >http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ > > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Training Proram for LIS Professionals
by P K Upadhaya Head NIC Library 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Dear LIS Professionals National Informatics Centre (NIC), Department of Information Technology, Government of India is organizing five days training programme on INTERNET TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS IN LIBRARIES from 13th to 17th Oct 2003 at New Delhi for Library and Information Science Professionals working all over the country. The programme will help the participants to modernize their libraries, as they would be equipped with Web Technologies and their application in library services. Details are available in the announcement section at http://www.home.nic.in . You can also download the attached MS-Word file. You are cordially invited to participate in this training programme. Last date of submission of nomination form is 30th Sept, 2003. With regards P.K. Upadhyay Officer Incharge, Library, Email : pku(a)hub.nic Contact No : 011-24360567

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Bookstores vs Public Libraries
by Madhuresh 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Hello All, There is a nice article entitled "What libraries can learn from bookstores: Applying the bookstore model to public libraries" recently appeared (2 days ago) at the following URL http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/marketing/bookstore.html The article talks about the difference and comparison between Public Library and Bookstore with some good pointers. The situations given in the article are not yet implemented/relevant for India but still people can know some ongoing trends or can modeled their library. Regards, Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Ranganathan Research Circle, New Delhi
by Mailing List Manager 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:54:47 +0530 (IST) From: Ratnakar Aspari [mailto:aspari_r@hotmail.com] For kind circulation among lis-forum members Ratnakar, New Delhi ________ RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE (An organ of Ranganathan Research Trust, Regd.:25953, 1995) J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE Cordially invites you to the 5th C V SUBBARAO Memorial Function at the Auditorium Hall, Sahitya Akademy, New Delhi On September 20th, 2003 Saturday at 10.00 A.M. There will be a Panel Discussion on "BIBLIOMETRICS AND SCINTIOMETRICS" Dr. K Satyanarayana, DDG, Indian Council for Medical Research, New Delhi Chairperson PANELISTS Dr. S M Dhawan, Scintist Inchange, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi Dr. B M Gupta, Sr. Scientist NISTADS, New Delhi Dr. Usha Munju Munshi, Sr. Scientist, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi ---------------------------------------------------------------- --------

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FORSA
by Library 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Dear Friends: We have a Forum for Resource Sharing in Astronomy and Astrophysics, which has been in existence for over two decades. This is an informal group consisting of: RRI, IIAP, TIFR, PRL, IUCAA, NCRA, State Observatory, nainital and CASA-Osmania University, and has been doing excellent job of cooperation and coordination for information exchange in the ever changing IT environment. FORSA has to its credit two consortia, viz. Indian Astrophysics Consortium (Kluwer Journals, 2002+) and FORSA Consortium for Nature on-line (Nature Publishing, 2002+). At present it is looking forward for consortium formation with AIP and other publishers. We are happy to inform that FORSA has become a participant in INternational Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) during August,2003. Perhaps, this consortium is the first one from India to participaate in ICOLC, which has around 158 participants from across the world. For details, one can look into the following sites: ICOLC : http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/ FORSA : http://www.iiap.res.in/library/forsa.html WE shall be very much obliged if forum members provide us information on number of consortia formed in India (with year, with whom consortia is formed, and number of participants) so that it may help othersfor interaction while going into consortia formation. With regards, Y.M.PATIL FORSA COORDINATOR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in

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Distributed Full Text Search of Math Books Now Available (fwd)
by Library 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Forwarded by Girija Srinivasan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:05:17 -0400 From: Steve Rockey <swr1(a)cornell.edu> To: slapam-l(a)lists.yale.edu Subject: Distributed Full Text Search of Math Books Now Available I though this would be of interest to Mathematics Librarians. --Steve >[Please redistribute as appropriate] > > Distributed Full Text Search of Math Books Now Available > >The university libraries of Cornell, G�ttingen, and Michigan are pleased to >announce the first public availability of a significant body of mathematical >monographs with access provided through a distributed full text search >protocol. The virtual collection, comprising more than 2,000 volumes of >significant historical mathematical material (nearly 600,000 pages), resides >at the three separate institutions and is provided through interfaces to the >three entirely different software systems. Public interfaces to the >collection may be found at: > http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/mathall/ >and > http://mathbooks.library.cornell.edu/ >These two public interfaces reflect different development efforts at >Michigan and Cornell, each with their own perspective on how to best mediate >the search through the protocol, and each based on the protocol. > >The protocol for this distributed search was developed by the three >participating institutions over the last two and a half years, with generous >support provided by the National Science Foundation. Working from the roots >of the DIENST and the then-emergent OAI protocols, the project team focused >on creating a new protocol--dubbed CGM, for "Cornell, G�ttingen, >Michigan"--that was consistent with OAI, borrowed from DIENST, and added >mechanisms for full text searching. The protocol and more project >information are available at http://www.library.cornell.edu/mathbooks/. > >While our testing has found that network latency and the vicissitudes of >different production environments do present challenges, our results >indicate that a distributed full text search is certainly viable. We >believe that the CGM protocol is relatively unique in providing >production-level full text access to distributed collections. > >We invite feedback on the effectiveness of the protocol from both users of >the materials and from digital library developers. Although essentially a >first prototype with significant needs for extension and refinement, we >believe that our progress to-date should be encouraging for digital library >developers interested in federating collections. And, further, the >collection itself is a rich resource for the study of mathematics history >and a number of related disciplines. The collections at Cornell and >Michigan are both fully searchable, and while the G�ttingen collection >currently includes bibliographic information and page images, G�ttingen is >actively seeking funding to create full text for its volumes. > >We welcome all feedback. Please send comments to cgm-feedback(a)umich.edu. > >We hope that the documentation on the protocol (currently found at >http://www.library.cornell.edu/mathbooks/cgmverbs.xml) will spur others to >add CGM-capability to their systems. The software created through this >NSF-funded grant will be made available in a number of ways. The API >developed by G�ttingen, allowing them to provide access through the Agora >software, will soon be available to other Agora sites. The functionality >developed by Michigan will be included in release 11 of the DLXS digital >library software (September, 2003). And Cornell is exploring distribution >and support models for its electronic publishing software, DPubS, the system >also behind Project Euclid (http://ProjectEuclid.org) If you are >interested in using the raw protocol mechanisms at Cornell, G�ttingen and >Michigan in your development efforts, please contact: > Andrea Rapp, G�ttingen <rapp(a)mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de> > David Ruddy, Cornell <dwr4(a)cornell.edu> > John P. Wilkin, Michigan <jpwilkin(a)umich.edu> > > >John Price Wilkin, Associate University Librarian, LIT Steven Rockey Director of the Mathematics Library 420B Malott Hall Cornell University Office: 255-5268 Home: 272-8925 e-mail: swr1(a)cornell.edu Fax: 607-254-5023 http://www.library.cornell.edu/math/

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XX IATLIS NATIONAL CONFERRENCE- CALL FOR PAPERS &IATLIS NEWSLETTER ATTACHED (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:23:39 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> XX IATLIS National Conference 2003: The XX IATLIS National Conference will be organized by the DLIS, University of Madras, Chennai during 21 23 November, 2003. Prof. K. S. Raghavan, Head, DLIS, University of Madras is the Organizing Secretary. Prof. Harsha Parekh, SNDT Womens University, Mumbai is the Director of the Conference. Theme: Globalization of LIS Education: FACETS: Ø Identification / Study of LIS Education Needs and Practices at Global level Ø Informal and non-formal LIS Education Ø Global Marketing of LIS Education Ø Market Oriented Reorganization of LIS Education Ø National and International Information Access Methods and Practices. Ø Comparison of Global and Local LIS Programmes Ø Information Needs and Information Seeking Strategies Ø Standardization and Cooperation for Globalization of LIS Education. Ø E-learning in Globalization of LIS Education Ø Collaboration of Education and Research Activities- National and International level- Inter institutional collaboration and consortia approach. Ø National and Transnational Information Policies Ø Information Technology in Globalization of LIS Education Ø Teaching Aids / Tools / Techniques / Infrastructure for Globalization of LIS Education Ø Curriculum Innovations Ø Design and Development of Curriculum in the context of Globalization Ø Faculty Empowerment and skills up-gradation. Ø Instructional Management Ø Practical Training / Exchange of Teachers and Students / Internship for appropriate Human Resource Development Ø LIS Education to meet the Changing Environments and Manpower Requirements in Modern Libraries Ø Role of Publishers and Book Sellers in Globalization of Education Ø Accreditation and Globalization And any other relevant sub-themes / topics of the main theme. CALL FOR PAPERS: Papers on the above facets of the basic theme Globalization of LIS Education for the XX-IATLIS National Conference should reach the General Secretary, IATLIS, c/ o Dept. of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD 500 007 so as to reach him on or before 20th October, 2003. The Paper should not be more than 3000 words. Please send your paper in print and electronic form on a 3½ floppy in MS Word. The authors may please avoid the historic aspects. ===== Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com

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Googles Set Search facility.
by Mailing List Manager 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:02:02 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends, To those who may not have explored Google at length, I would like to draw your attention to the Set creation facility in Google. The URL is: http://labs.google.com/sets If you enter a few members of a set, (in this case categories of poems) Google predicts the other members of the set. For instance, I typed Ode, Haiku, Epitaph and got the following as result: Ode Epitaph Haiku Limerick free Verse Villanelle Sonnet Ballad Blank Verse Lyric Elegy Cinquain Sestina epic Narrative Quatrain BioPoem Shape List Poem Acrostic Rondeau Shakespearean Sonnet Dramatic monologue Italian Sonnet ================ This facility can be useful in classification, thesaurus construction, keyword assignment etc. We need to keep in mind that this is NOT a synonym finder. It is a tool to predict other members of a set, given names of a few members. Suppose you want to search for office stationery suppliers, you just enter a few words like, pen, calculator, photoframe and you will get the rest - well almost. The output needs to be manually examined for correctness. Then if you search a "proper database of office needs suppliers" with the 'resulting words from Google Sets search', better results may be expected. *Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre *ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA *Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631 *Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com *Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre *ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA *Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631 *Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com

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15th September 2003 LAST DATE for abstract submission for Call for http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:54:02 +0530 From: Debal Chandra Kar <dckar(a)teri.res.in> Our apologies for cross postings INVITATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS ICDL 2004 - 24-27 February New Delhi http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl International Conference on Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation, preservation, access and management --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate disseminating this mail to your colleagues. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TERI in partnership with the Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India intends to organize a four-day International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL). CIEMCA/ COL is also an associate. ICDL 2004 will facilitate interaction between experts and others, bridge knowledge gaps between developing and developed countries, and initiate capacity building activities in DLs (digital libraries). The deliberations of globally renowned experts - and subsequent discussions - during and after the conference, will help develop a road map for the digitization of archives, manuscripts, and libraries. ICDL 2004 will also provide directions on available technologies, digitization acts, DL policies, knowledge-sharing mechanisms, multilingual issues, etc. Who should participate? ---------------------- ICDL 2004 will witness cross-disciplinary participation by policy-makers, information scientists, and professionals involved in DL research and practice across the world. It would particularly interest the following. Policy-makers Library and information science professionals IT professionals Archivists and museologists Content developers and knowledge managers IT service providers Information providers and vendors Professionals from electronic publishing and virtual electronic communities All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorials: 24 February 2004 --------------------------- Call for Tutorials: The main aim of these tutorials will allow participants to become familiar with basic principles of the field, to receive technical training in the area of Digital Libraries and making them aware of the potential of digital libraries in the current scenario. Tutorial 1: Overview of Digital Libraries Tutorial 2: Build Digital Library Using Open Source Software Tutorial 3: Dublin Core Metadata Tutorial 4: Development and Application of Knowledge Base Management Systems Tutorial 5: Development and Application of Knowledge Base Management Systems Tutorial 6: Thesauri and Ontologies in Digital Libraries Conference 25-27 Feb 2004 ------------------------- Call for papers: Theme: Knowledge creation, preservation, access, and management Topics: ----------- Digital libraries: conceptual and theoretical aspects Planning, development, architecture, and management Archiving cultural heritage and history through digitization Content organization and knowledge management: discovery, organization, retrieval, and models System scalability and interoperability Mediation and user interaction Metadata issues Digital library policy and strategic planning --------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission guidelines: --------------------------- Extended abstracts (500 words) in English are to be submitted in MS Word format. The review committee will take the final decision regarding paper acceptance. Once accepted, the complete papers (5000 words) are to be submitted within the scheduled time frame. All papers must be original contributions and authors of the accepted papers are expected to transfer the copyright to TERI. Authors are requested to visit the ICDL web site for more details. Dates to remember: ----------------- Last date for submission of extended abstracts - 15 September 2003 Last date for communication of acceptance of papers - 30 October 2003 Last date for submission of full papers (soft copy) - 15 December 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration: ------------ The registration fee covers the conference kit, conference proceedings, lunches, inaugural dinner, and tea. It does not include other meals and accommodation. Registration fee* ---------------- For registrations done on or before 30 November 2003 Indian Delegates: Tutorials Rs 2000; Conference Rs 5000; Conference and tutorials Rs 6000 Foreign Delegates: Tutorials US$ 75; Conference US$ 200; Conference and tutorials US$ 225 For registrations done after 30 November 2003 Indian Delegates: Tutorials Rs 2500; Conference Rs 5500; Conference and tutorials Rs 6500 Foreign Delegates: Tutorials US$ 100; ConferenceUS$ 225; Conference and tutorials US$ 250 * Additional registration from the same organization qualifies for a 10% discount . * Students (Ph.D. and Masters) can avail of a 50% discount. Registration options: The registration form can also be downloaded from the conference web site. The completed form can be sent along with the registration fee through local cheque / bank draft favouring TERI and payable at New Delhi. Visit our web site for online registration. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For paper submission and registration, please contact: Debal C Kar Conference Coordinator ICDL 2004 Secretariat TERI Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 / India Telephone +91 11 2465 1629, +91 11 2468 2100, or +91 11 2468 211 Fax +91 11 2468 2133 E-mail ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in Web www.teriin.org/events/icdl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme structure: ------------------------------ ICDL 2004 will have a mix of educative events and programmes spread over four days. Tutorials: Day 1(24 February) Leading researchers and practitioners will present the tutorials. Conference sessions: Day 2, 3, and 4 (25-27 February) Plenary, parallel, and poster sessions will engage the delegates in a wide range of presentations from leading national and international experts. Panel discussions, Valedictory session: Day 4 (27 February) Policy-makers, media-persons, academics, and techno-experts will discuss digitization initiatives in the developing world to frame a plan of action. Business sessions: Day 2 and 3 (25-26 February) ICDL 2004 opens up excellent opportunities for organizations involved in develo-ping and providing digital and knowledge management solutions to reach a global audience through product presentations. Exhibitors: Day 1, 2, 3, and 4 (24-27 February) ICDL 2004 welcomes organizations to showcase their best products/technologies at the venue. Space is available for 25 exhibitors. Stalls of 2 � 2 metres and 2 � 3 metres will be allotted on a first-come, first-served basis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Committees ------------------ International Programme Committee: --------------------------------- Prof. Jos� Luis Borbinha, Director for Innovation and Development, National Library of Portugal, Portugal Dr Hsinchun Chen, McClelland Professor of MIS; Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Director, Hoffman eCommerce Lab, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Scotland Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Integration Manager, Archives F�d�rales Suisses, Archivstrasse, Switzerland (invited) Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor of Computer Graphics, University of Technology, Braunchweig, Germany Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Systems Support Unit, Monash University Library, Victoria, Australia Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor of Information and Library Science, School of Communication Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, Connecticut, USA Prof. Gary Marchioni, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Dr Erich Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Professor, GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Germany Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center, Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University, USA Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, Department of Education and Skills, London, UK Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, Dublin, USA Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, UK Prof. Ian H Witten, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advisory Committee ------------------------------ Conference Co-Chairs -------------------- Mr Dhanendra Kumar, Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, New Delhi; Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva Members -------------- Prof N Balakrishnan, Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, IISc, Bangalore; and Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Mr Yateendra Joshi, Fellow, TERI, New Delhi, India Mr Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM, New Delhi, India (invited) Dr Abhijit Lahiri, Adviser, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi Dr S S Murthy, Former Director, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, Government of India, New Delhi Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre, Ahmedabad, India Dr Usha Reddi, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, The Commonwealth of Learning, New Delhi Dr S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, Government of India, New Delhi Prof. M Tawfik, Director and UNESCO Representative to Bhutan, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka, New Delhi Dr N Vijayaditya, Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Om Vikas, Scientist 'G' and Head, Computer Development Division, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, New Delhi -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Committee: ------------------ Co-Chairs --------- Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Leena Srivastava, Executive Director, TERI, New Delhi Conference Coordinator ---------------------- Mr Debal C Kar, Fellow and Area Convener, Library and Information Centre, TERI, New Delhi Members ------- Ms Martina Bartel, Head, Information Department and Library; Regional Coordinator, South Asia, Goethe Institut, Maxmuller Bhavan, New Delhi (invited) Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Dr P R Goswami, Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Arora, Jagdish Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India Mr P Jayarajan, Head, Library and Information Services (India), British Council Division, British High Commission, New Delhi Dr H K Kaul, Director, DELNET, New Delhi Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi Ms Rebecca McDuff, Information Resources Officer (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka) and Public Affairs - US Embassy, American Centre, New Delhi Mr M Moni, Deputy Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Usha Mujoo-Munshi, Librarian, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi Mr V N Shukla, Director (Special Applications), Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida, India Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Mysore University, Mysore, India --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited speakers: ---------------- Several globally renowned experts are expected to participate in and share their experiences at the conference. It will be an excellent opportunity for associated professionals to interact with these experts and enrich their knowledge base. Dr Schubert Foo Shou Boon, Associate Professor, Head, Division of Information Studies, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Prof. Jos� Luis Borbinha, Director for Innovation and Development, National Library of Portugal, Portugal Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Scotland Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Integration Manager, Archives F�d�rales Suisses, Archivstrasse, Switzerland Prof. Dieter W Fellner, Professor of Computer Graphics, University of Technology, Germany Dr Amarnath Gupta, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, USA Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Systems Support Unit, Monash University Library, Australia Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Dr Arora, Jagdish Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST, Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor of Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, USA Dr Javed Mostafa, Victor H Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science, Associate Professor of Informatics, Indiana University, USA Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre, India Dr Erich Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Professor, GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Germany Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Dr Harsha Parekh, Librarian and Professor of Library Science, SNDT, Women's University, India Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Dr Peter Schirmbacher, Director, Computing and Media Services, Humboldt-University,Berlin, Germany Dr Michael Seadle Head, Digital and Multimedia Center; Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries; Editor, Library Hi Tech, USA Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, UK Dr Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, University of Library and Information Science, Japan Dr Stuart Weibel , Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, USA Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, UK Prof. Ian H Witten, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand Dr Takeo Yamamoto, Director and Professor, Multimedia Information Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts: ------------- Conference Coordinator ICDL 2004 Secretariat TERI Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 / India Telephone +91 11 2465 1629, +91 11 2468 2100, or +91 11 2468 211 Fax +91 11 2468 2133 E-mail ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in Web www.teriin.org/events/icdl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Metadata Harvesting-Interview
by Mailing List Manager 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:01:59 +0530 From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> Dear friends The following piece of interview is for those who doesn't read OCLC Newsletter. The interview is relating to the protocol for metadata harvesting (PMH) which is about new protocols that enable users to search across multiple repositories and to view and use works from different digital collections from a single workstation. A link is also provided for more information about OAI-PMH. Aman Kumar Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) New Delhi Interview: Herbert Van de Sompel, Developing new protocols to support and connect digital libraries Herbert Van de Sompel is a digital library research pioneer known for his cutting-edge work in linking technologies and metadata harvesting. He received a master's degree in mathematics in 1979, a master's degree in computer science in 1981 and a doctorate in communication science in 2000, all from Ghent University, Belgium. He was Head of Library Automation at Ghent University from 1981-1998. From 2000-2001, he served as Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Department of Cornell University, where he was part of the Digital Library Research Group and taught computing methods for digital libraries. Prior to accepting his current position as Digital Library Researcher at the Research Library at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), he served as Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. The 2003 recipient of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, Dr. Van de Sompel has played a major role in creating the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services and the SFX linking server. He is also a member of the OCLC Research Advisory Committee. What do you do at the Los Alamos Laboratories? I lead the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team, a group of highly qualified individuals who are well established in the digital library research community. Our team explores architectures/solutions for next generation digital library services in the context of the Los Alamos Research Library and beyond. You recently won the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology for your work in linking technologies and metadata harvesting. How important are these to libraries? I think this work is significantly changing the nature of library services. Probably the OpenURL/SFX work on linking is the one that currently has the highest impact on libraries. There are quite a few academic and research libraries across the world operating an OpenURL-compliant linking server. Libraries now have a say in the nature and target of links, and users enjoy a consistent linking experience across resources. Interestingly, the linking work is not very well known in the digital library research arena. There, the impact of metadata harvesting protocols is more visible. Maybe that's because metadata harvesting has its origins in an effort to transform scholarly publishing. Initially, libraries had little involvement in those efforts as they were mostly initiated from within a given research community. As libraries start taking a more active role in that transformation, for example, through institutional repositories, they will be adopting a protocol to become part of a global, interoperable network of scholarly repositories. So, eventually, the impact of the OAI-PMH might become more profound. What is the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)? Can you talk a little about the philosophy and driving force behind it? Initially, OAI was about transforming scholarly communication. The idea was to increase the impact of communication through preprints by making repositories interoperable. For example, if we could make it easier to find preprints than electronic published papers, preprints might become a viable (and cheaper) alternative, which would change the dynamics of scholarly publishing. Later, mostly through the influence of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), our work became more generic. Preprint repositories were not the only islands on the Web. So were digitized library collections. There was a clear need for interoperability at the resource-discovery level for all kinds of materials, not only for preprints. Supported by DLF and CNI, Carl Lagoze, Senior Researcher, Information Science Program, Cornell University and I embarked on a mission to create a generic protocol for metadata harvesting. The modus operandi is the creation of simple, generic, high-quality, vetted specifications that can enhance the experience of dealing with the networked information environment we live in. What do you see OAI accomplishing for libraries? There are a zillion things libraries could do with the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) because it is so generic. In Los Alamos, we use it for things as diverse as a read-only Repository Access Protocol, as a protocol to synchronize bibliographic data between different components in our infrastructure, and as a means to share digital library usage logs with our research collaborators, Johan Bollen (Old Dominion University) and Luis Rocha (LANL), who will be using them for creation of a recommendation system. I have been hoping that libraries would put pressure on publishers to make their metadata harvestable via the OAI-PMH. Unfortunately, so far, I haven't seen a lot of action. Not sure why that is. Probably academic libraries are too busy worrying about integration with educational systems. How's the reception been to OAI-PMH around the world? Beyond what I had expected or hoped for. The protocol is all over the place. Whichever meeting or conference I attend, the OAI-PMH comes up. As Cliff Lynch, Executive Director, CNI, mentioned, the protocol has become a part of our information infrastructure. I feel that the timeframe in which this has happened (less than 4 years) is quite surprising and impressive. It is really difficult to give quantitative measures about the adoption of the protocol because there is no requirement to publish usage, and in many cases usage actually occurs in an Intranet context. Recently, we have seen an increasing interest in the protocol from industry. Dot.coms and dot.nets that I had never heard of are playing around with the OAI-PMH. What were some of the challenges in developing OAI and OAI-PMH? With the OAI, things have been rather straightforward. Initially, in 1999, my ideas to move to action in the preprint realm were supported by Paul Ginsparg, Professor of Physics and Computing and Information Science, Cornell University; Rick Luce, Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory; Cliff Lynch; Don Waters, Program Officer, Scholarly Communications, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress; and Rick Johnson, Enterprise Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). This support was crucial for assembling a group of experts to discuss how to make preprint repositories interoperable. In Michael Nelson, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University and Thomas Krichel, Assistant Professor, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University, I found the perfect partners to demonstrate a possible solution: metadata harvesting. At the expert meeting, my connection with Carl Lagoze was established. Initially our collaboration was quite informal. Later, the DLF and CNI expressed interest in generalizing the protocol, and generously provided us with some funds. With that came the creation of an advisory board, and Carl and I became the OAI executives, leading the effort to deliver a protocol. Things have been very smooth. The funding expired at the end of 2002, and ever since then OAI has faced organizational challenges that are well known to anyone who has been involved in defining infrastructural components. Developing the OAI-PMH has not been a challenge but rather great fun. It has probably been the best experience in my professional life. Carl and I have been able to assemble two generations of the OAI Technical Committee with people who excelled through their talents, insights and determination to get the job done. If I would have to name a single challenge, it would be remaining faithful to the fundamental principles of sticking to scope and maintaining simplicity. How much input from librarians went into OAI-PMH? How many libraries are involved with the project, and what are their roles? We had people on the OAI Technical Committee from the Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the CERN library, the British Library, the Engineering Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and OCLC. And we had some more people with library backgrounds on the OAI Steering Committee. How can OCLC help advance open access content systems? I think OCLC can play a very important role through the creation of tools that can easily be deployed in a variety of institutional contexts, through educating its constituency about the better kind of place we could live in if they would collectively move to action to initiate some real change in scholarly communication, and through using their longstanding and valuable experience in novel ways that help in making such action successful. How do you see OAI evolving? What are the future plans? We have several pieces of work in thinking or in the pipeline. An important one is an upcoming collaboration with the JISC RoMEO project, in the realm of expressing rights statements about metadata and content in the OAI framework. We will soon set up a new technical committee for that work. Another effort that we have already done significant work on is the so-called OAI Static Repository. It's a file-based solution to lower the barrier for people to share metadata through the OAI-PMH; they don't need to run any special server, only put a file of a specified format on a Web server. We also think about the creation of a SOAP version of the OAI-PMH. Our good friend, Hussein Suleman (Cape Town University), is currently doing research in that realm, the results of which will probably become the starting point of an OAI effort. And there is more great stuff we have in mind. Just trust us and wire the money so we can get going. What other communities are working on linking technologies, and how is the library community connecting with them? The problem that comes closest to the library's "appropriate copy" problem is the one in e-commerce whereby companies want to offer Web visitors a choice of online vendors of their products, but instead of providing that information themselves, they rely on third party services to do so. Interestingly, in their world, offering more choices is better than offering the "appropriate" choice. But it's a similar thing, and companies like Channel Intelligence are providing services in that realm. I am not sure about what exactly their solution is but I can see that it could be addressed by using OpenURL and an OpenURL Resolver. Then there's Microsoft's Smart Tags and related ideas that have led to some helper applications that let a user consult an authoritative database on a specific topic by selecting a word, or by clicking links overlaid by those applications. Again, this feels very similar to OpenURL ideas. As far as I know the library community is the first one to devise a standard in this realm of linking; we seem to be leading the way. The hope is that other communities will adopt the upcoming NISO OpenURL Standard to address their linking needs; by all means, the standard is written in such a generic manner that they could. Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web, describes the next generation of the Web as the "Semantic Web," when people create many programs that collect Web content from diverse sources, process the information and exchange the results with other programs. How close are we to the Semantic Web that Berners-Lee describes? Yes, and my American garage door talks to my Belgian toaster, and they agree I am hungry. Great idea. I think it will take long time to realize, and that we will go through several generations of enabling technologies before we find ones that are suitable to actually get the job done. "Suitable" in this case means both powerful and simple. Like the technologies that led to the emergence of the Web. Also, the Semantic Web will probably happen very gradually, with some sample implementations in niche areas illustrating the capabilities, and by doing so, slowly convincing the world at large. Quite a different deployment than the Web itself. While I have become increasingly receptive to the Semantic Web ideas in general, I remain puzzled as to why it takes so long for a killer illustration to emerge. My personal take on this is that too many people feel uncomfortable with the technologies at hand, or the lack thereof. While I keep hearing that RDF is simple, I remain to be convinced that the technology is straightforward. Also, maybe we are too focused on seeing a garage-door/toaster illustration of the Semantic Web concepts. Probably we should settle for an application that is less exotic, more useful and hence more convincing. Herbert Van de Sompel; Jeff Young, OCLC Consulting Software Engineer; and Thom Hickey, OCLC Chief Scientist, wrote an article entitled, "Using the OAI-PMH...differently" for D-Lib Magazine. You can read it at http://dlib.org/dlib/july03/young/07young.html. Source: OCLC Newsletter, July 2003

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