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Open data policy
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Friends: Should governments make data collected with taxpayers' money freely available to all on the Net? The Manitoba state government in Canada thinks so. Please see the news story appended below. What is the situation in India and other developing countries? Subbiah Arunachalam ---------------------------------- Praise for Manitoba's open data policy Michael Cross, Canada proves itself to be genuine land of the free, The Guardian, August 10, 2006. Excerpt: The government of Manitoba says it was the first in Canada to make all its publicly funded geospatial data freely available, without any licensing terms, to government, businesses and citizens. This is the policy that Technology Guardian's Free our Data campaign calls on the UK government to adopt. Officials say that the Manitoba Land Initiative, adopted in 2000, is based on sound business sense. "Frankly, it just did not make good economic sense to try and sell data that the taxpayers already paid for, and it was costing us much more to try to sell data and manage distribution then we were making in revenue," says Harvey Pokrant, director of the information technology services branch in the provincial capital Winnipeg.... This is a vivid contrast to the UK government approach, which encourages state bodies holding data to treat it as intellectual property and to charge for its use, even by other parts of government.... In theory, freeing data along the Manitoba model should make life easier for officials creating policies for environmental protection, managing natural resources and encouraging investment in the province. It should also encourage the private sector to create value-added products based on public data. Pokrant says there is evidence that this is happening.... Friends: Should governments make data collected with taxpayers' money freely available to all on the Net? The Manitoba state government in Canada thinks so. Please see the news story appended below. What is the situation in India and other developing countries? Subbiah Arunachalam ---------------------------------- Praise for Manitoba's open data policy Michael Cross, http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1840386,00.html Canada proves itself to be genuine land of the free , The Guardian , August 10, 2006. Excerpt: The government of Manitoba says it was the first in Canada to make all its publicly funded geospatial data freely available, without any licensing terms, to government, businesses and citizens. This is the policy that Technology Guardian's Free our Data campaign calls on the UK government to adopt. Officials say that the https://web2.gov.bb.ca/mli/ Manitoba Land Initiative , adopted in 2000, is based on sound business sense. "Frankly, it just did not make good economic sense to try and sell data that the taxpayers already paid for, and it was costing us much more to try to sell data and manage distribution then we were making in revenue," says Harvey Pokrant, director of the information technology services branch in the provincial capital Winnipeg.... This is a vivid contrast to the UK government approach, which encourages state bodies holding data to treat it as intellectual property and to charge for its use, even by other parts of government.... In theory, freeing data along the Manitoba model should make life easier for officials creating policies for environmental protection, managing natural resources and encouraging investment in the province. It should also encourage the private sector to create value-added products based on public data. Pokrant says there is evidence that this is happening....

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Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (14) (2006)
by SRELS 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Dear Sir : Kindly arrange to insert the following Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (14) (2006) by the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science for the benefit of lis-forum members. Yours sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajianagar, Bangalore 560 010 ************ The Board of Trustees of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore in association with Canara Bank School of Management Studies, Bangalore University, Bangalore cordially invites you to the Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (14) (2006) Topic: INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR THE LEGAL PROFESSION Speaker: Hon'ble Justice Gopal Sriram Judge, Court of Appeal, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Date: 23, 24 and 25 August 2006 at 6.00 p.m. each day Venue: Canara Bank School of Management Studies Seminar Hall, Central College Campus, Bangalore University, Bangalore 560 001 Prof. Dr. A. Jayagovind Vice-Chancellor, National Law School of India University, Bangalore will inaugurate Prof. S. Parthasarathy Member, Board of Trustees, SRELS, Bangalore will preside RSVP: K.N. Prasad - Ph: (080)23305109 R. Adilakshmi - Ph: (080)22961975 E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com E-mail: adilakshmi_cbsms(a)rediffmail.com Dear Sir : Kindly arrange to insert the following Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (14) (2006) by the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science for the benefit of lis-forum members. Yours sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, 42 nd Cross, III Block, Rajajianagar, Bangalore 560 010 ************ The Board of Trustees of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore in association with Canara Bank School of Management Studies, Bangalore University, Bangalore cordially invites you to the Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (14) (2006) Topic : INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR THE LEGAL PROFESSION Speaker : Honble Justice Gopal Sriram Judge, Court of Appeal, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Date : 23, 24 and 25 August 2006 at 6.00 p.m. each day Venue : Canara Bank School of Management Studies Seminar Hall, Central College Campus, Bangalore University, Bangalore 560 001 Prof. Dr. A. Jayagovind Vice-Chancellor, National Law School of India University, Bangalore will inaugurate Prof. S. Parthasarathy Member, Board of Trustees, SRELS, Bangalore will preside RSVP: K.N. Prasad - Ph: (080)23305109 R. Adilakshmi - Ph: (080)22961975 E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com E-mail: adilakshmi_cbsms(a)rediffmail.com

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InfoVision2006-the Knowledge Summit, September 28-29, 2006, Bangalore
by Shalini Urs 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Dear Friends, Join us at InfoVision 2006 - for an intellectual feast of listening to and interacting with thought leaders across the Knowledge Spectrum. InfoVision 2006 - the Knowledge Summit is being organised during September 28 - 29, 2006 at Hotel Meridien, Bangalore. Come and listen to visionaries and leaders such as Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and Prof. Peter Lor, Secretary General, IFLA InfoVision brings to you the 2006 MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Company) Award Ceremony at the Gala Dinner on September 28, 2006 Come, participate in the interactive Panel Debates with the MAKE Award winners. For more details - www.infovision2006.org <http://www.infovision2006.org/> ---- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Executive Director International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Tele : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 www.isim.ac.in www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  Dear Friends, � Join us at InfoVision 2006 - for �an intellectual feast of listening to and interacting with thought leaders across the Knowledge Spectrum. � InfoVision 2006 – the Knowledge Summit is being organised during September 28 – 29, 2006 at Hotel Meridien, Bangalore . � Come and listen to visionaries and leaders such as Jimmy Wales, the founder of ��Wikipedia and Prof. Peter Lor, Secretary General, IFLA � InfoVision brings to you the 2006 MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Company) Award Ceremony at the Gala Dinner on September 28, 2006 � Come, participate in the interactive Panel Debates with the MAKE Award winners. � For more details – �� http://www.infovision2006.org/ www.infovision2006.org � ---- � Dr.Shalini R. Urs Executive Director International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Tele : + 91 821 2514699 Fax� : + 91 821 2519209 www.isim.ac.in www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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UK to launch PubMed Central in a few months
by Mailing List Manager 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:42:53 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> >From Peter Suber's blog More on UKPMC UK PubMed Central To Launch in January, Library Journal, August 9, 2006. Excerpt: The desire to make government funded research freely available to the public got another boost with the announced launch of UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), a repository based on the PubMed Central in the United States, operated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Like its American counterpart, UKPMC will provide free access to an online digital archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences. Officials at the Wellcome Trust, strong advocates of open access, said the contract to run UKPMC was awarded to a partnership between the British Library, the University of Manchester and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). Launch of the service is scheduled for January 2007....

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RE: [LIS-Forum] After retirement
by Mailing List Manager 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 06:37:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Mahesh G T <nisargamahesh(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear All, its a good topic to discuss,"After Retirement" ofcourse there is no retirement for any professional untill he feels it,, i personally feel that, retired professionals can form a association may be region wise or area wise, as they can actively participate/organize the programmes like Counselling, Mentoring and other developmental activities for the young upcoming professionals as well as Libraries.They can share their 25-30 years of realtime experience to the changing world by writing a book or sharing through the Forum like this, and also Conferences/Seminars/and Workshops can allow atleast 2-3 retired professionals to present their expierience, as their expierience could also be documented in an Conference/Seminar Proceedings. They can organize orientation clases for the young professionals by providing the professional Skillsets .... Still more active and effective channel would be publishing News Letter or so,,, but to make it happen in realtime situation i feel they should form an association or Forum(Retired Library Professionals,,) ,,with the support of our young professionals, I request all the young and expierienced professionals to come forward in this regard,,,, ========================================================== "Knowledge is of two kinds,We Know a subject ourselves, or,we know where to find information on it" ========================================================== Mahesh G T Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore-68 Off No - 080-26684369 Mob No - 9845727385

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Digitizing Indian language books
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Friends: Here is a news story from Xinhuanet. Google is digitizing books in major libraries in the USA and UK, so anyone anywhere (with an Internet connection) can read those books. Google is digitizing books in University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library and now the (one hundred or so) libraries of the University of California. Google is also negotiating with the US Library of Congress. Yahoo and Microsoft have joined the Internet Archive to form the Open Content Alliance and they are also digitizing books in major western libraries. What about the great treasures in non-western languages such as Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, Sanskrit, etc.? Should we not organise such masssive digitization with appropriate search capabilities? Under the Millennium Digitization (?) programme, efforts are on to digitise books in India and China, but I am not sure how large the effort is and how comprehensive. As one who speaks Tamil, I will be interested to see all the great classics of Tamil literature as well as the works of contemporary writers such as Asokamitran, Jayakanthan and Sujatha (to name only a few) to be freely available for all the80 million or so Tamils living around the world. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] From Xinhuanet Google Inc. on Wednesday said the University of California has agreed to having books from its libraries' collections digitized and made searchable within the company's controversial library project. The UC system's 34 million books are spread across more than 100 libraries on 10 campuses, making it the largest academic research library in the world. The full text of books in the public domain will be available through Google Book Search, while only snippets of copyrighted books will be viewable, along with information about where they can be bought or borrowed. The UC system joins the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library in making book collections available to Google. The latter is making available only books in the public domain. The participants support of the project is in contrast to writers and publishers who are suing Google to prevent them from digitizing books without first getting their permission. The UC system believes Google's policy of providing only snippets of copyrighted works in search results is sufficient protection. Google announced its library project last year, prompting separate lawsuits by the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild. The organizations are arguing that Google should first seek the permission of copyright holders before digitizing books. Google is arguing that its actions are legal, since it only offers snippets of copyrighted material. The cases are pending. Google is working with the U.S. Library of Congress on a similar effort. For Google, the new momentum for its Book Search Project is the latest in a string of high-profile deals it has announced over the past week in which it signed a major search and advertising contract with News Corp., the owner of MySpace.com, and a video advertising and delivery deal with Viacom, owner of MTV. Friends: Here is a news story from Xinhuanet. Google is digitizing books in major libraries in the USA and UK, so anyone anywhere (with an Internet connection) can read those books. Google is digitizing books in University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library and now the (one hundred or so) libraries of the University of California. Google is also negotiating with the US Library of Congress. Yahoo and Microsoft have joined the Internet Archive to form the Open Content Alliance and they are also digitizing books in major western libraries. What about the great treasures in non-western languages such as Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, Sanskrit, etc.? Should we not organise such masssive digitization with appropriate search capabilities? Under the Millennium Digitization (?) programme, efforts are on to digitise books in India and China, but I am not sure how large the effort is and how comprehensive. As one who speaks Tamil, I will be interested to see all the great classics of Tamil literature as well as the works of contemporary writers such as Asokamitran, Jayakanthan and Sujatha (to name only a few) to be freely available for all the80 million or so Tamils living around the world. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] From Xinhuanet Google Inc. on Wednesday said the University of California has agreed to having books from its libraries' collections digitized and made searchable within the company's controversial library project. The UC system's 34 million books are spread across more than 100 libraries on 10 campuses, making it the largest academic research library in the world. The full text of books in the public domain will be available through Google Book Search, while only snippets of copyrighted books will be viewable, along with information about where they can be bought or borrowed. The UC system joins the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library in making book collections available to Google. The latter is making available only books in the public domain. The participants support of the project is in contrast to writers and publishers who are suing Google to prevent them from digitizing books without first getting their permission. The UC system believes Google's policy of providing only snippets of copyrighted works in search results is sufficient protection. Google announced its library project last year, prompting separate lawsuits by the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild. The organizations are arguing that Google should first seek the permission of copyright holders before digitizing books. Google is arguing that its actions are legal, since it only offers snippets of copyrighted material. The cases are pending. Google is working with the U.S. Library of Congress on a similar effort. For Google, the new momentum for its Book Search Project is the latest in a string of high-profile deals it has announced over the past week in which it signed a major search and advertising contract with News Corp., the owner of MySpace.com, and a video advertising and delivery deal with Viacom, owner of MTV.

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Re: Library rules for CSIR Labs
by Subbiah Gunasekaran 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Dear Members: I will be grateful if anyone could mail me the library rules framed by the CSIR for its constituent labs? Thanks S.Gunasekaran Library CECRI, Karaikudi Dear Members: I will be grateful if anyone could mail me the library rules framed by the CSIR for its constituent labs? Thanks S.Gunasekaran Library CECRI, Karaikudi http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Writing and Editing for the Library Website
by vimal kumar 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Dear Information Professional, Here is the link to a useful article about writing for library website appeared in current issue of Free Pint newsletter. http://www.freepint.com/issues/100806.htm#tips Best Wishes Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. Here is the link to a useful article about writing for library website appeared in current issue of Free Pint newsletter. http://www.freepint.com/issues/100806.htm#tips Best Wishes Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman7/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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RE: [LIS-Forum] After retirment
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:47:10 +0000 From: Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla <rvsn1234(a)hotmail.com> There are a number of public libraries that are sick. One can spare some time to motivate and guide the staff and offer services to public. They can do career counselling to local government school students who are deprived of such facility. They can go to any old age home or orphanage etc. and read books for them. If one has the willingness and permissible health there are so many things to do even after retirement (ofcourse not-for-profit). Varalakshmi -- Dr. RSR Varalakshmi Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam. >From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] After retirment >Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:04:43 +0530 (IST) > > >Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 04:50:58 -0700 (PDT) >From: ranjit dharmapurikar <d_ranjit(a)yahoo.com> > >Dear All, > > Iam opening a topic for discussion. All service >librarians are going to retir as per the government >rules. My point is what should be done after >retirement. Library service is a professional task. >Even after retirement a librarian can do lot of things >related to this profession. In order to spent time >happily one can cultivate habbit of reading among the >society. One can open a library. There are lot of >opportunities to work. You can also suggest other >opportunities. Let us start suggesting....... > >with regards, > > ranjit >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] After retirment
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:03:28 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy <vyasamoorthy(a)gmail.com> After retirement I started a non-profit called "Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors" (SENIORS). I fulfill info requirements of Retired persons pensioners and other elders. Some of my services are fee based while some are free. A list of topics dealt with by me is given below: Seniors Residential care facilities Investment options Income tax doubts Legal points like writing will, succession laws Health, Yoga, Alternate therapies Entertainment, funny stories & Jokes Second Career Government Policies & Concessions Help lines & Counseling Elder Abuse and redressal Safety & security Old Age Homes, Nursing /geriatric Care/ Retirement Homes Newsletters, magazines and guidebooks Travel for leisure & religious tourism Insurance of all sorts specially health insurance Suppliers of Assistive Devices Others can do something siliar. If anyone is further interested I can give more ideas. Vyasamoorthy -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:05 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] After retirment Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 04:50:58 -0700 (PDT) From: ranjit dharmapurikar <d_ranjit(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, Iam opening a topic for discussion. All service librarians are going to retir as per the government rules. My point is what should be done after retirement. Library service is a professional task. Even after retirement a librarian can do lot of things related to this profession. In order to spent time happily one can cultivate habbit of reading among the society. One can open a library. There are lot of opportunities to work. You can also suggest other opportunities. Let us start suggesting....... with regards, ranjit _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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