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National Seminar on Knowledge Representation & Information Retrieval
by Mailing List Manager 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Apologies for cross-postings ----------------------------- National Seminar on Knowledge Representation & Information Retrieval Dates: March 22-24, 2006 Venue: DRTC, Bangalore, India Organized by Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Bangalore 560059 The digital medium including the World Wide Web is increasingly being used for scholarly information repositories and for scholarly communication. It is important in this context to advance conceptual work in knowledge organization for all purposes, including databases, digital libraries, and the Internet, and to develop effective mechanisms for information organization and retrieval. Research in this area has adopted several new approaches that include: enhancing the structure and content of digital resources, improving the capabilities of search engines, adapting traditional knowledge organizational tools for the digital environment, developing new tools for knowledge organization, etc. This seminar will focus on these aspects. Call for Papers: Papers addressing the above aspects of Knowledge Organization research and practice are welcome. The themes identified include (but are not limited to) the following: 1. Traditional systems of knowledge organization in the digital environment 2. New forms of knowledge organization: Ontologies and knowledge ordering; Transforming traditional systems to newer forms 3. Multilingual problems of information retrieval 4. Knowledge Organization in corporate information systems 5. Standards; Metadata sets, Markup Languages, Knowledge Organization for Multimedia Information 6. Semantic Web 7. Case studies showcasing research, experiments and ongoing projects in the area Participants: 1. Library & Information Community-teachers, researchers and practitioners 2. Representatives from the information industry, specially those involved in digital content creation for the Web 3. Researchers from Computer Science, particularly those involved in R & D work related to search engines, ontologies, etc Those who intend to present papers are requested to send the papers as attachments in OpenOffice or MS-Word format via E-mail to Dr. K.S Raghavan at the following E-mail IDs. raghavan(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in with cc to ksragav(a)hotmail.com. The last date for submission of papers is 31st January 2006. Registration fee: The registration fee of Rs.1000/- (Rupees One Thousand only) per participant should be sent in the form of a Demand Draft drawn in favour of "Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore", payable at Bangalore along with the registration form The Registration Fee covers the cost of Seminar Kit Working Lunch and Tea Last Date for Registration 28th February 2006 Accommodation: Accommodation for a limited number of participants can be arranged at the ISI Guesthouse at a nominal cost (charges as per the rules of the Institute) on a first-come-first-served basis. The filled in Registration form may please be mailed to: Dr. K.S Raghavan Convener DRTC Seminar on Knowledge Representation & Information Retrieval Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore 560 059 Phone: 080-28483002 / 03 / 04 / 05 Ext: 492 Fax: 91 80 28484265 Email: raghavan(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in ksragav(a)hotmail.com Registration Form 1) Name: 2) Designation: 3) Address: 4) Telephone Number: Office: _____________Res: _______________ Mobile: _______________________________ E-mail: ________________________________ 5) Accommodation required: Yes / No Arrival Information: 6) Demand Draft No: Bank: Amount: Date: Signature of the Signature of the Sponsoring Authority Participant Date: Date: Place: Place:

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RE:Articles index database
by chandrashekhar navalgund 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Dear All, This is in relation to the discussion about indexing by the Librarians / Libraries by Mr. Saiful Amin and Mr. Manjunath. I would like to share my observations and experiences on this topic as mentioned below: First of all we should be aware that what is available in our house ( our library ) then, start searching what is available in others house ( other libraries as well as commercial databases etc. ) so that our readers would be happy and appreciate us that we are true professionals and we are able to know with a push of a button we are able to tell them as to what is available in our library instantly for their research / browsing. In this connection, I would like to share a recent experience of mine. One of our Prof. called me over tel. and informed me that he has to make a presentation in a prestigious seminar on a topic migrant labours and he had the time of two ( 2 ) days hence he would like to know all the articles pertaining to this topic published in EPW in about four-five years period. Fortunately, we started indexing service from 2000 onwards and I just took out the print out of list of articles on that topic and sent to him in about fifteen minutes time. The Prof. was so happy , appreciated and thanked to the library staff for having this service is made available immediately. If we had not done indexing then I might have to depend on the Guide to Periodical Index print version or some other sources but, that would have taken lot of time. Again, the advantage here is not only EPW index of articles but all other journals articles ( for the journals which we are subscribing in our library) which can be traced and referred immediately in our library itself provided if you have made such an index. This service according to me is the first and foremost advantage of ones own librarys indexing. We are professionals and our job is to add value to the services being provided to our readers. If we start depending every thing on others databases and others resources then, we do not have the job to do excepting the traditional way of procuring and processing of books, issuing / returning of materials etc. Moreover, the present generation readers are computer savy (at least in our place) they know how to search information on their own not depending much on the library staff. If we have to get appreciation and respect from our readers as we are professionals then, we have to initiate several such things which some times, one may feel silly but in a longer period which would definitely benefit. By using the commercial indexing services which contains several of foreign journals and out of those thousands of journals we might be subscribing to 50 100 journals. Even if the required articles are available in the list but, those journals are not available in our library then, what is the use of it? another thing is that most of the Indian journals especially, the social science journals are not indexed in many of the commercial databases. So, given the above observations, it is my personal view that one should try to index the journals of their own library for quick retrieval of information and usage of it and which can also be shared with other library indexes or to create a central database of articles index like the good work being done by IGIDR Library. I would like to congratulate and appreciate the work being done by IGIDR Library team. Regards C U Navalgund Dy. Librarian N L S I U, Bangalore Tel : 080-22729259 Email : cun(a)nls.ac.in

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Open Access - Talk by Dr.Alma Swan (4th Jan-Jawaharlal Nehru Conference Hall, Mumbai Univeristy, Kalina)
by Smita Chandra 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Talk on "Open Access: What it can do for science and scholarship in India" by Dr.Alma Swan (Director, Key Perspectives, UK) at Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library University of Mumbai, Kalina, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400 096 On 4th of January from 03.30 PM to 05.30 PM (Free for all. Lecture followed by discussions) Contact : Mrs.Rajhans, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph. 022-26526679 (989232042) (rajhansa(a)yahoo.com) Ms.Ravija Srivastava, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph.:981932070 (ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com) Ms.Vasumati Sriganesh, Director, QMed Services Pvt.Ltd.,Mumbai. Ph.022-28229223 & 9867292230 (vasu(a)qmedin.com) Dr.D.K.Sahu, Director, Medknow Publications, Mumbai . Ph. 022-5649181 Summary of the Talk Open access to research findings is the most effective means to enhance the communication, discussion and use of the outputs of scholarly endeavor. Scholars' findings have traditionally been largely locked away from all but the lucky few whose libraries were able to purchase expensive journals. Now the World Wide Web has made it possible for scholars to share their results, ideas and inspirations on a truly worldwide basis, whilst still preserving the best of the traditional way of publishing their results - high-quality peer review and editing procedures. Open Access is the great equalizer when it comes to scholarly communication. Dr. Alma Swan shall describe the ways to achieve Open Access, what advantages it brings to scholars and scientists in all parts of the world and what it can do for India's own scholarship and science now and in the foreseeable future. About the Speaker Dr. Alma Swan obtained a first class honours degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University. After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996 she jointly founded Key Perspectives. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, Alma retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School's MBA programme. She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management) at Southampton University. Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology. She is currently an independent consultant on scholarly communication issues and has been working on projects concerned with Open Access to the research literature for several years now, carrying out original research, writing reports and articles and giving many presentation. All her publicly available work can be found in the Open Access Archive on her organization's website at www.keyperspectives.co.uk. ************************************************************************** ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Library, Information & Documentation Division Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph.: 91-022-27484137 Mobile: 9820404583 Fax: 91-022-27480763 Email : smitac_in(a)yahoo.com ********************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Talk on " Open Access: What it can do for science and scholarship in India " by Dr.Alma Swan ( Director, Key Perspectives, UK ) at Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library University of Mumbai , Kalina, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400 096 On 4 th of January from 03.30 PM to 05.30 PM (Free for all. Lecture followed by discussions) Contact : Mrs.Rajhans, LIS Department, University of Mumbai . Ph. 022-26526679 (989232042) ( http://us.f361.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=rajhansa@yahoo.com rajhansa(a)yahoo.com ) Ms.Ravija Srivastava, LIS Department, University of Mumbai . Ph.:981932070 ( http://us.f361.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ravija_srivastava@yahoo.com ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com ) Ms.Vasumati Sriganesh, Director, http://www.qmedin.com/ QMed Services Pvt.Ltd .,Mumbai. Ph.022-28229223 & 9867292230 ( http://us.f361.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=vasu@qmedin.com vasu(a)qmedin.com ) Dr.D.K.Sahu, Director, http://www.medknow.com/ Medknow Publications , Mumbai . Ph. 022-5649181 Summary of the Talk Open access to research findings is the most effective means to enhance the communication, discussion and use of the outputs of scholarly endeavor. Scholars' findings have traditionally been largely locked away from all but the lucky few whose libraries were able to purchase expensive journals. Now the World Wide Web has made it possible for scholars to share their results, ideas and inspirations on a truly worldwide basis, whilst still preserving the best of the traditional way of publishing their results - high-quality peer review and editing procedures. Open Access is the great equalizer when it comes to scholarly communication. Dr. Alma Swan shall describe the ways to achieve Open Access, what advantages it brings to scholars and scientists in all parts of the world and what it can do for India 's own scholarship and science now and in the foreseeable future. About the Speaker Dr. Alma Swan obtained a first class honours degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University . After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996 she jointly founded Key Perspectives. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, Alma retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School 's MBA programme. She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management ) at Southampton University . Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology . She is currently an independent consultant on scholarly communication issues and has been working on projects concerned with Open Access to the research literature for several years now, carrying out original research, writing reports and articles and giving many presentation. All her publicly available work can be found in the Open Access Archive on her organization's website at http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/ www.keyperspectives.co.uk . ************************************************************************** ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Library, Information & Documentation Division Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph .: 91-022-27484137 Mobile : 9820404583 Fax : 91-022-27480763 Email : mailto:smitac_in@yahoo.com smitac_in(a)yahoo.com ********************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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New Year wishes
by SRELS 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Members of the Staff of Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore, wish all the subscribers of LISFORUM a very happy and prosperous New Year. K.N. Prasad Executive Officer

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Position of Information Officer at ICICI Knowledge Park
by aparajita＠icicikp.com 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Dear Friends, ICICI Knowledge Park has an exciting opportunity in our Virtual Information Centre (VIC) at Hyderabad. VIC is a unique facility offered by ICICI Knowledge Park, with the support of DSIR, Government of India. It provides a wide range of services with the cooperation of several libraries and information centers that form the IKP knowledge network; focused on Biotechnology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Information technology, Material Sciences and Telecommunications.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> As an Information Officer, you will be responsible for the development, operations and maintenance of the VIC, for providing networking and information support to the Park tenants and liaison with Knowledge Network members. Candidates must possess a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science; MLS/ MLISc. from Library Schools of repute/ ADIS from DRTC or INSDOC. Our ideal candidate will be people-oriented, possess excellent organizational and communication skills, along with a team-oriented, flexible work style. 1 to 2 years of professional library experience is required, candidates having experience in Virtual or digital library setup will be preferred. ICICI Knowledge Park offers a professional work environment, competitive wages and an excellent benefits package. Please send your resume to a <mailto:Aparajita@icicikp.com> parajita(a)icicikp.com Best regards, Aparajita ----- Aparajita Suman Information Officer Virtual Information Centre ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500 078 INDIA < mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com> Phone - Office: +91(40)2348 0054 Fax: +91(40)2348 0007 Dear Friends, ICICI Knowledge Park has an exciting opportunity in our Virtual Information Centre (VIC) at Hyderabad. VIC is a unique facility offered by ICICI Knowledge Park, with the support of DSIR, Government of India. It provides a wide range of services with the cooperation of several libraries and information centers that form the IKP knowledge network; focused on Biotechnology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Information technology, Material Sciences and Telecommunications. As an Information Officer, you will be responsible for the development, operations and maintenance of the VIC, for providing networking and information support to the Park tenants and liaison with Knowledge Network members. Candidates must possess a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science; MLS/ MLISc. from Library Schools of repute/ ADIS from DRTC or INSDOC. Our ideal candidate will be people-oriented, possess excellent organizational and communication skills, along with a team-oriented, flexible work style. 1 to 2 years of professional library experience is required, candidates having experience in Virtual or digital library setup will be preferred. ICICI Knowledge Park offers a professional work environment, competitive wages and an excellent benefits package. Please send your resume to a mailto:Aparajita@icicikp.com parajita(a)icicikp.com Best regards, Aparajita ----- Aparajita Suman Information Officer Virtual Information Centre ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500 078 INDIA < mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com > Phone - Office: +91(40)2348 0054 Fax: +91(40)2348 0007

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OA and print publishers
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Friends: With the advent of Internet and email, you thought that the post office would have become less important. Please read the latest US Postal Service Annual report (for the year 2005), which is just out. United States Postal Service Source: United States Postal Service (USPS) USPS Annual Report 2005 >From press release: "The results are in - the U.S. Postal Service ended 2005 with a record sixth consecutive year of growth in productivity, wiped out its debt and delivered fifty percent more mail to 32 million more homes and businesses than it did 20 years ago while doing it at 1985 staffing levels. These results are highlighted in the just released 2005 Annual Report of the U.S. Postal Service." With the advent of Open access journals [and open access archives], other professional print journals wouldn't die, as feared by the writer(s) of the recent report of the Royal Society! Physics journals and the central archive (arXiv) coexist for the past 15 years. Free availability of Internet downloaded music has not resulted in music recording companies closing down. Commonsense would make us believe that heavy objects cannot remain up in the air for even a minute, and that thanks to gravity they will fall down. Every day thousands of planes, weighing in tonnes, are crisscrossing the skies at altitudes of 30,000 feet. The same way, contrary to the 'commonsense thinking' of many who believe that giving information free on the Internet will destroy the publishing industry, it will continue to thrive. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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A new book by John Willinsky
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Open Access Source: Inside Higher Ed 'The Access Principle' "Paying for information? In print? That's a model that's just so early 20th century, according to The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, published last week by MIT Press. The book reviews the various models to bring the dissemination of knowledge online and to make it free, and along the way, the book criticizes plenty of publishing practices, copyright interpretations and scholarly traditions. John Willinsky, professor of language and literacy education at the University of British Columbia, has devoted much of his scholarship to the ideas behind the book. Among other things, he directs the Public Knowledge Project, which is financed by the Canadian government to promote the free exchange of information. Willinsky responded to questions about the themes of his book." --

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Journal price increase since 1993
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Friends: Do you want to know how journal prices (annual subscription costs) are increasing year by year? To gain more perspective about the history of price increases since 1993, read the report. History of SPI since 1993 (XLS, 61Kb). Please visit http://informationservices.swets.com/web/show/id=52169. You will certainly realise why we should promote open access archiving worldwide! Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Federated searching of archives
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Friends: I stumbled on this news item on open access to US archival information. With the Right to Information we in India should also have such access to government information. ---- National Archives and Records Administration Source: AP Archives Smooths Web Access to Records If you ever used the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) from the National Archives of the U.S. it was a pain in the rear. You had to search one database at a time. Well, that's changed. Yes, it's another example of meta or federated searching coming to life. From the AP article: "The revamped Access to Archival Databases site -- http://aad.archives.gov/aad/ -- allows the public to search for free through 85 million documents in 475 files amassed by more than 30 federal agencies." From the site itself, "...Feature global free- text searching across all series and files, in addition to our standard fielded search, and easier and faster ways to find the series and files you want!" Thanks to Randy H. for the news tip. I think the challenge now will being getting reaching these databases. I've been having trouble for the past hour. --- Subbiah Arunachalam

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Articles Indexing
by K A. Sardesai 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Dear All Lis-forum readers, I fully agree with the points open for discussion in case of articles inedxing.Saiful presently I have not yet started the same in my Library (RBI, DESACS Bandra)because of the issues raised by you ,I am facing practically in my profession.Articles indexing is no doubt one of the best service in our profession but then it takes your complete devotion and keen knowledge in the subject which requires heavy reading and awareness and up date knowledge in the respective field.The solo Librarian couldnot offer this service to the users due to lack of human resource to input the proper and concise text.It would be better to opt for the subscription of such databases Libraries or corporates like Informatics, Dialog etc.Manjunath has given a good suggestion to index such journals only which are not included in internationaly published databases. Also I came across with one of the well known organization working for Articles indexing in Libsys but if you ask for a particular back dated article it may not be available immediately may be due to lack of proper maintenance.In India I think there is a lot of manpower and work assimilated but who cares? is the mentality.But yes there are people who devote to the profession like information providers, librarians and Dear Saiful we are one of them . As it is aopen discussion I opined it personnaly and for Articles Indexing We should be selective as per requirement of the organizational needs. Articles Indexing in Libsys is sucessfully working in Reserve Bank of India, Department of Economic Analysis & Computer Services, Library, 6th floor,Mumbai 400001 under the Librarianship of Dr D Kamalavijayan Chief Librarian. kshipra sardesai Saiful we met at DRTC Digital Library workshop and IASLIC 2005 at Grand Haytt , Santacruz.

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