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ON OPEN ACCESS
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

PLEASE VISIT http://www.wsis-si.org/oa-facts.html Arun

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[Fwd: [BOAI] Interoperable repositories: usage statistics]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [BOAI] Interoperable repositories: usage statistics From: "Peter Suber" <peters(a)earlham.edu> Date: Sun, November 20, 2005 8:17 pm To: SPARC-OAForum(a)arl.org boai-forum(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friends in India and the Developing World: It would be in our interest in taking part in this new exercise. Please read on. Arun A major study is underway now to develop a pilot service to collect, analyse and feed back usage statistics for interoperable repositories worldwide. The project is funded by JISC in the UK, and is led by Dr Les Carr at Southampton University, in partnership with the University of Tasmania, Long Island University and Key Perspectives Ltd. The project outline is as follows: download data are being logged by every repository as a by-product of the Web requests they receive. These raw data are being turned into useful download statistics for individual papers and users by a few institutional repositories (e.g. University of Tasmania, Southampton University), thematic repositories (e.g. RePEc) and OAI services (e.g. Citebase). However, there is no consensus over what data need to be collected, what filtering mechanisms are appropriate, and what analyses are useful for academics in various disciplines. To create effective research statistics services, an interoperable usage statistics service will be created for all OAI-PMH-compliant repositories. This project will investigate the requirements for UK and international stakeholders and build generic collection and distribution software for all IRs. The approach will be demonstrated by a pilot statistics analysis service modelled as an OAI service provider. Working with partners experienced in analysis of usage statistics for electronic documents, and an international consultative committee of key OAI archive and service managers, the principal deliverables will be: - An API for gathering download data implemented for common IR platforms - A set of agreed standards defining the basis for measuring and reporting usage of materials deposited in IRs and aggregated with data from other sources where such materials can be found. The research to establish user requirements for the new service is just approaching completion. It has consisted of a series of focus groups and individual interviews with researchers and repository managers around the world and will provide the basic spec upon which the software is developed. Before this phase is finally wound up, I would be interested in hearing from any researchers, repository managers, gateway managers or service providers who have views on what kind of usage statistics would be useful to them or their constituency. Replies on or off list would be very welcome. Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK

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[Fwd: [BOAI] Comparison of EPrints, DSpace and Fedora (fwd)]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Subject: Comparison of EPrints, DSpace and Fedora I am doing a comparison of functionality and adopter experiences for the two most widely used institutional archive-creating software packages for repositories: EPrints and DSpace, and also Fedora (a minor player globally but possibly important in Australia). I am seeking your help in collecting information. Information about other packages would also be welcome. (1) If you have used or compared any of this software, could you please take the time to let me know what you consider the respective advantages/disadvantages of each to be, and for what purposes? I am also interested in features that you think are equivalent or readily achieved in each. (2) The two major software packages explain their orientation as follows: EPrints puts a particular emphasis on OA content (preprints and postprints of institutional research output, plus theses), DSpace on digital curation in general. Fedora describes itself as repository storage layer software requiring custom front-ends for any purpose. If you have any specific comments on these overall orientations and whether they are appropriate, they would be very helpful too. (3) While all these packages are free and open source, I would also be interested in any cost estimates in implementing the one you chose, how many hours or dollars you spent on setup, how much maintenance you have to expend, and how reliable the software is (crashes, downtime, etc). Would you recommend it to someone else? I will post a summary of the results (and maybe an interim report) on AmSci OA Forum, and may get back to you if I reed a bit more detail. Thank you in anticipation of a prompt response and a flood of emails. Email direct to me at Arthur.Sale(a)utas.edu.au if you want. Arthur Sale Professor of Computing (Research) University of Tasmania http://leven.comp.utas.edu.au/AuseAccess/

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OA at WSIS, Tunis
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Dear Leslie and friends: Some of us should write a joint report on "the status of OA after WSIS". WSIS and side events had many sessions related to OA. We had the 4S sessions at Corinthia Khamsa. The CODATA and UNESCO teams had sessions at the main WSIS venue. The WSIS-SI working group had a session. SIST, INASP, UNESCO and others had stalls in the exhibition and many books and reports were distributed. IDRC has announced a one-million dollar (Canadian) grant for improving fibre connectivity in East Africa. I am requesting Rich Fuchs and Steve Song to give us details. A consolidated report of the progress the OA movement had made at Tunis would be very useful. What do you think? Regards. Arun

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Open access gains support
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Succinct intro to OA, esp. OA archiving Stevan Harnad and the Southampton Eprints team have launched an open access page, explaining the basics and linking to key resources. Excerpt: Putting Open Access into Practice: Researchers, their institutions and their funders need to be informed of the benefits of providing Open Access and instructed on how quickly and simply it is done. Institutional Open Access Repositories need to be created (and registered, so as to be seen and emulated by other institutions). Most important, an OA self-archiving policy for systematically filling these repositories with their target content needs to be adopted and implemented (and registered, so as to be seen and emulated by other institutions). An Institutional Repository is the best way to provide OA to research output. Software such as EPrints provides a web-based OAI-compliant IR for free. --- More on the Global Information Commons for Science David Dickson, Global project seeks to promote access to science, SciDev.Net, November 17, 2005. A leading international scientific organisation has launched a global initiative to develop ways of increasing access to knowledge produced by publicly funded research. The Global Information Commons for Science Initiative seeks to remove restrictions to accessing information that technological advances and new ways of protecting intellectual property have created. The International Council for Science's (ICSU) Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) launched the initiative on 14 November in Tunis, Tunisia....According to CODATA, their approach seeks a "collaborative, consensual solution" to the conflict between the advantages of protecting commercial scientific data, and the economic and social costs such protection imposes on scientific enterprise. It has three specific goals. Firstly, to make people more aware of the benefits that easy access and use of scientific information will bring to society. Second, to promote the wide adoption of effective ways of increasing the availability and use of publicly funded research findings. And finally, to encourage and coordinate members of the global scientific community who are already trying to achieve the first two objectives, "particularly in developing countries"....Among the most prominent supporters of the new initiative is John Sulston, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine, and a key leader of the international human genome sequencing project. Addressing the Paris meeting, Sulston said that some people are trying hard to confine knowledge, and that new barriers to communication are forming at the very time that common access to information is most needed. "This culture impedes research and innovation, throttles ethical decision-making, widens the gap between rich and poor, and contributes to global insecurity," said Sulston.

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chemistry search engine
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Guna: Please forward this to all chemist fellows of INSA and IASc. Thanks. Aun ---- OA search engine for chemistry Chmoogle is a new search engine for chemistry. From yesterday's press release: eMolecules, Inc. today announced the launch of Chmoogle, the world's leading free open-access chemistry search engine. Chmoogle's mission is to discover, curate and index all of the public chemical information in the world, and make it available to the public. Chmoogle distinguishes itself by extremely fast searches, an appealing presentation of results, and high-quality chemical drawings. "The world's knowledge in chemistry is an invaluable resource", said Dr. Klaus Gubernator, eMolecules' Chief Executive Officer. "It lies dormant until it becomes searchable by every chemist. The language of chemistry is chemical structures. Chmoogle makes the world's chemistry searchable by structure. Just draw a molecule using your favorite structure drawing tool and hit Go!." Craig James, eMolecules' Chief Technology Officer, explained, "The scale and speed of Chmoogle is unlike anything that's come before. We had to start from scratch, build a new chemical database engine from the ground up, so that we could give users the response times they expect, handle one of the world's largest collections of molecules, and respond to the unique demands of the world wide web." Rashmi Mistry, head of eMolecules' Data Acquisition team, said, "While building some of the world's largest corporate chemical databases and managing corporate mergers, we learned the complexity and the wide variety of ways in which chemical information is represented. Chmoogle's Data Acquisition technology integrates everything we've learned. We were able to obtain millions of molecules from hundreds of sources, and merge them into a single, searchable chemical database." Chmoogle allows users to send queries, results and individual structures as links to their colleagues via email. This feature creates an unparalleled collaborative environment for chemists worldwide. Chmoogle provides Chmoogle Free code that users can embed into their own web sites for direct access to Chmoogle, as well as hosted cheminformatics systems and full web sites for chemical suppliers, pharmaceutical and other chemical industries.

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Unesco's support for OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

UNESCO Welcomes Cultural Diversity Endorsement, ArtDaily, November 19, 2005. An unsigned news story. Excerpt: The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, today welcomed the endorsement by 176 States attending the World Summit on the Information Society (Tunis, November 16-18) of UNESCOs vision of knowledge societies. This vision is based on the four principles of freedom of expression, quality education for all, universal access to information and knowledge and respect for cultural and linguistic diversity. These principles are included in the Tunis Commitment and the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society adopted at WSIS today. The Tunis Commitment (paragraph 4) recognizes that freedom of expression and the free flow of information, ideas and knowledge are essential for the information society and development. In paragraph 9, the Commitment recognizes the capital importance of access to information, respect for cultural and linguistic diversity and for the role of the media to ensure that everyone can benefit from the opportunities that ICTs can offer....The Tunis Agenda recommends that UNESCO continue playing a leading role in implementing the Plan of Action adopted during the first phase of the Summit, in Geneva in December 2003. The Agenda invites UNESCOs contribution in the following eight areas: access to information and knowledge; capacity building; e-learning; e-science; cultural and linguistic diversity and open content; media; ethical dimensions of the information society; international and regional cooperation. Speaking at the Plenary session of WSIS, the Director-General of UNESCO pleaded in favour of equitable and inclusive knowledge societies [that] harness the potential of knowledge and put it at the service of sustainable development.

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CALIBER 2006 February 2-4, 2006 ... Reminde
by K Prakash 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

Dear All, This is a reminder about the forthcoming 4th International Convention CALIBER-2006, "Dynamic Interoperable Web based Information Systems February 2 - 4, 2006 Jointly Organised by INFLIBNET Centre and Gulbarga University. Venue: Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India Who Should Attend The convention provides unique opportunity to the following University librarians and their professional colleagues, Academicians and researchers looking for enhanced access facility, Professionals working in the areas of Web based information systems, digital information management, digital libraries, networking, globalization, localization, development and deployment of technical solutions, globalization of software and Internet. The convention will also witness cross-disciplinary participation by library and information professionals, policy makers, managers, software engineers, systems analysts, content developers, web designers, web administrators, technical writers, information scientists, knowledge managers, electronic publishers, content developers and product marketing personnel. Students of library, information and computer sciences are also encouraged to attend the event. Call for Papers --------------- Programme committee solicits high quality technical papers related to the theme and sub-themes listed below Theme: Dynamic Interoperable Web based Information Systems Sub theme 1:Open Access and Interoperability ------------------- • Integrating electronic information through Web • Dynamic Web applications for libraries • Interoperable Web services using open source software (OAI initiatives/OAI publishing) • Metadata harvesting • Quality control on Web • Open source and risk management Sub theme 2: E-Information literacy ------------------- • Information literacy teaching • Creating Web courses – case studies • Web technologies for user education • Changing role of Librarian in the light of interoperability • Assessment or measurement of online resources using UGC-Infonet program • Evaluation of electronic services • Integrated information retrieval Sub theme 3:Semantic Web and Ontology ------------------- • Semantic Web standards • Wi-Fi Applications in Libraries • RFID Applications in Libraries Ontology Sub theme 4:Information Portals ------------------- • Portals – Role of Libraries • Portals in Consortium Environment • Dynamic Web applications or Libraries • Institutional repositories case studies PAPER SUBMISSION -------------------------------- Dr. T.A.V. Murthy Editor-in-Chief, CALIBER 2006 Director, INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695/8528/5971/002 Fax : +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-mail : tav(a)inflibnet.ac.in OR caliber2006(a)inflibnet.ac.in Dr. V.S. Cholin Joint-Convenor, CALIBER-2006 Scientist-B (LS), INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695/8528/5971/002 Fax : +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-mail : cholin(a)inflibnet.ac.in REGISTRATION & ACCOMMODATION -------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ravi B. Gaddagimath Organising Secretary, CALIBER 2006 Librarian, Gulbarga University Jnana Ganga , Gulbarga-585106 Karnataka, India Phone : 08472-245724 Fax : 08472-249683 E-mail : rbggug(a)rediffmail.com QUERIES MAY ALSO BE SENT TO ----------------------------------------------------- Mr. B. Ramesh Convenor, CALIBER-2006 Scientist-B (CS), INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695/8528/5971/002 Mobile: 09427001466 Fax : +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-mail : ramesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in Dr. V.S. Cholin Joint-Convenor, CALIBER-2006 Scientist-B (LS), INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695/8528/5971/002 Mobile: 09427000762 Fax : +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-mail : cholin(a)inflibnet.ac.in Pre-Conference Tutorial In view of the increasing demand from the professional colleagues, INFLIBNET will be organizing one tutorial on February 1, 2006 at 14.00 hours on Building Digital Libraries using D-Space- by Mr. Yatrik Patel, Scientist-B, INFLIBNET Centre. This tutorial will focus on practical aspects of installing, configuring and operation. Duration of the tutorial will be from 14.00 – 17.30 hrs. The tutorial charges is Rs. 500/- and to be paid in advance by DD to the Organizing Secretary, CALIBER - 2006 on or before January 15, 2006. The numbers of seats for the tutorial are limited and the admission will be on first come first served basis. International delegates need not pay additional charges for tutorial but they should indicate, in advance, their intention to attend the tutorial. Important Date --------------------- Receipt of full papers December 30, 2005 Intimation to Author(s) January 15, 2005 Last date of Registration January 15, 2006 Pre-Conference Tutorial February 1, 2006 Convention Dates February 2-4, 2006 Registration ----------------- The conference registration fee is Rs. 800/-. The delegates will be provided with convention kit, proceedings volume, lunch and tea (on two convention days only). TA/DA and accommodation charges will have to be borne by sponsoring organizations/participants. Please send your completed registration form along with the registration fee through Demand Draft drawn in favour of Organizing Secretary, CALIBER-2006, payable at Gulbarga to Dr. Ravi B Gaddagimath, Organizing Secretary, CALIBER-2006 not later than January 15, 2006. DD should be drawn on nationalised banks only. Please note that delegate registration fee of Rs.800/- for the CALIBER, does not include accommodation fee. Extra fees of Rs.100/- will be charged for spot registration For more details and updates please visit http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2006/ With best regards. Bye. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - K Prakash Scientific/Technical Officer-I Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009 India Phone: 91-079-2630 5971/2630 4695 Extn: 38(Off); 2676 3724(Res) Fax: 91-079-2630 0990/ 2630 7816 Mobile: 9427 000 758 Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ ; http://www.prakashk.netfirms.com/

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Ubiquitous Findable Objects
by sandeep bhavsar 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

UFOs (Ubiquitous Findable Objects)by Peter Morville, author of Ambient Findability 11/17/2005 The term ambient findability describes a world at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the internet, in which we can find anyone or anything from anywhere at any time. It's not necessarily a goal, and we'll never achieve perfect findability, but we're surely headed in the right direction. A clear sign of progress is the emergence of ubiquitous findable objects (UFOs). GPS, RFID, UWB, and cellular triangulation enable us, for the first time in history, to tag and track products, possessions, pets, and people as they wander through space and time. Of course, not everyone is happy about this brave new world of UFOs. While Bruce Sterling raves about spime, Katherine Albrecht rants about spychips. Which focuses our attention on the UFO subclass of "ubiquitous findable organisms" that includes wild animals, pets, friends, suspects, shoppers, patients, prisoners, employees, kids, and ourselves. For More Info Please have a look at this URL : http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/11/17/ubiquitous-findable-obje… regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research and Management Studies Thane (W) 400601. PH : 25364492- Ext 211 Mo : 9867437438 email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Model Search - Could you be the next catwalk superstar? Check out the competition now UFOs (Ubiquitous Findable Objects) by http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/561 Peter Morville , author of http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ambient/ Ambient Findability 11/17/2005 The term ambient findability describes a world at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the internet, in which we can find anyone or anything from anywhere at any time. It's not necessarily a goal, and we'll never achieve perfect findability, but we're surely headed in the right direction. A clear sign of progress is the emergence of ubiquitous findable objects (UFOs). GPS, RFID, UWB, and cellular triangulation enable us, for the first time in history, to tag and track products, possessions, pets, and people as they wander through space and time. Of course, not everyone is happy about this brave new world of UFOs. While Bruce Sterling raves about http://www.boingboing.net/images/blobjects.htm spime , Katherine Albrecht rants about http://www.spychips.com/ spychips . Which focuses our attention on the UFO subclass of "ubiquitous findable organisms" that includes wild animals, pets, friends, suspects, shoppers, patients, prisoners, employees, kids, and ourselves. For More Info Please have a look at this URL : http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/11/17/ubiquitous-findable-obje… http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/11/17/ubiquitous-findable-obje… regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research and Management Studies Thane (W) 400601. PH : 25364492- Ext 211 Mo : 9867437438 email : mailto:sandeep.bhavsar@gmail.com sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/modelsearch/*http://uk.news… Yahoo! Model Search - Could you be the next catwalk superstar? Check out the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/modelsearch/*http://uk.news… competition now

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Re: Why INTERNET
by Sukhdev Singh 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Yes the report "Leap of faith: using the Internet despite the dangers" as argued by me in my earlier post on it - [Last Month - LIS-FORUM - http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2005-October/002963.html ] talks about more and more people using Internet despite some distrust. However, now I am arguing that INTERNET is must for LIS Professionals because some Recorded Knowledge now exists as "Online Only". How can this portion of knowledge be ignored? Uses of Internet is a different story. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:01:15 +0530 (IST) > From: pku(a)nic.in > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: Why INTERNET > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <50427.192.168.1.1.1132216275.squirrel@mail2021> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > > It's pleasure to read the write up posted by Mr Sukhdev Singh on "Why > Internet'. It's useful. > I got a survey report from Internet which may be useful in thus context. > > > > Leap of faith: using the Internet despite the dangers > > > Results of a national survey of Internet users for Consumer Reports > WebWatch > > > <http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/> Among the latest findings from the > Consumer Reports Web Watch poll: > > * Nine out of 10 U.S. Internet users over 18 have made changes to > their behavior due to fear of identity theft. > * The percentage of adults saying they get most of their news from > the Internet has doubled, going from 5 percent in 2002 to 11 percent in > the most recent survey. > * Blogs have won some readers but not much trust. A total of 57 > percent distrust what blogs report, with 21 percent saying blogs are > never or almost never accurate. > * The majority of respondents (56 percent) has still not heard of > the common practice of search engines being paid fees to list some sites > more prominently than others in search results. > > View abstract > <http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/web-credibility-reports-princet > on.cfm> > View report <http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/pdfs/princeton.pdf> > > > P K Upadhyay > NIC Library >

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