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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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Forwarded mail.... (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:37:13 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> This has reference to Sri Deshpande's (of CPRI)recent request for info on companies that can be contacted for Scanning OCR & other related digitisation work. I wish to add the following address: Mr Sastry chemudupaty Vicisoft Technologies P Limited plot 126 jyothi colony, behind aoc paade grounds, secunderabad 500015 mobile 98490 30737 phone 27743168/27740226 email: sastry(a)vicisoft.com & manish(a)vicisoft.com If Mr Deshpande or someone else can cumulate the addresses he has recived into a single file, it would be useful to all. Thanks *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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Traditional Information Providers Branch Out
by Mailing List Manager 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 08:24:35 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> >From Information Today Inc. [Newslink, September 2003]: Traditional Information Providers Branch Out By Paula J. Hane Recently, Microsoft announced that a number of healthcare industry software vendors, solution providers, and organizations have developed a range of solutions that take advantage of the 2003 release of Microsoft Office as a platform to increase productivity and improve quality of care. According to Microsoft, these solutions "automate paper-based processes, streamline workflow, and enable workers throughout the healthcare industry to focus on what they do best: healthcare." The technologies implemented in Office position it as a front end to work processes and integrated access to information. Ovid, an operating company of Wolters Kluwer Health, is integrating journal content from its Journals@Ovid database into various Microsoft Office 2003 applications. Healthcare professionals will have access to full-text content from more than 900 medical and health sciences journals. Clinicians or researchers can select an article and view the entire full text, if their institution is an Ovid subscriber, or they can purchase the material through Ovid's PayPerView feature. Bette Brunelle, executive vice president of Ovid, said, "Ovid is dedicated to finding new and innovative methods of integrating content into the enterprise environment that enhance end-user work flow and, by extension, the medical research process." Elsevier announced that it has developed a healthcare reference package compatible with the 2003 release of Microsoft Office. The package includes two of the company's medical reference titles: Dorland's Medical Dictionary and Mosby's Drug Consult. Some of the other healthcare companies that are partnering with Microsoft include Gold Standard Multimedia (which will offer its interactive drug information solution, Clinical Pharmacology, as an add-on product); Allscripts Healthcare Solutions; NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc.; and MICROMEDEX, a division of the Thomson Corp. (which will offer its SaveNotes feature to customize CareNotes Patient Education documents). According to information on the Microsoft site, the Research Task Pane, which uses XML to provide access to data sources, can also search customized corporate data sources. For example, an organization can build a database of information about its products and services, and offer that information through an intranet to its employees. Employees can also incorporate additional third-party data services into their data sources. Microsoft, which had planned to launch Office 2003 in the summer, now says this has been delayed until Oct. 21, 2003, though Office will be pre-installed on some PCs by the end of this month. Google and IEEE Finally, Google, never out of the media spotlight for long, announced that researchers will be able to locate technical papers published by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) using the Google search engine. Google is currently crawling, or indexing, the abstract records for all online IEEE technical documents and standards available through the IEEE Xplore online delivery platform (http://www.ieee.org/ieeexplore) There are now nearly 1 million documents in the IEEE database. The project is expected to be completed this month, at which time Google users will see the linked content in their search results. Abstracts will be available free to everyone, and full-text documents are available to IEEE subscribers or through individual online purchase.

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 10:10:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Should our scientists continue to publish their findings in toll-access journals such as those published by commercial publishers or should they publish their work in toll-free journals such as those published by BioMed Central and the Indian Academy of Sciences? If our scientists want their work read (and cited) by a very large number of people, then they have no choice: they ought to publish their work in toll-free journals. As a corollary, we must make all (worthwhile) Indian journals toll-free by making their electronic versions freely accessible on the Internet. Please read the following message I received from Stevan Harnad, who visited India three years ago and gave talks at Chennai and Bangalore. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---- Message from Stevan Harnad The following data posted by Peter Suber in http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html indicate that open-access articles (from BioMedCentral) average at least 89 times as many downloads as toll-access articles (from Elsevier). (The 89 is probably an undercount, because it does not include PubMedCentral downloads.) PETER SUBER: "Elsevier has put some PowerPoint slides on the web summarizing its interim results for 2003. Slide #16 shows that there were 4.5 million full-text articles in ScienceDirect on June 30, 2003, and slide #15 shows that there were 124 million article downloads in the 12 months preceding that date. This means that its articles were downloaded an average of 28 times each during the past year. http://www.investis.com/reedelsevierplc/data/interims2003b.ppt "For comparison I asked Jan Velterop of BioMed Central what the download figure was for BMC articles during the same time period. He reports that the average is about 2500 per year, which doesn't count downloads of the same articles from PubMed Central. This is 89 times the Elsevier number. " Combine these download data with the citebase data on the correlation between downloads and citations http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php and you will be able to estimate the dramatic way in which open access enhances research citation impact, confirming what Steve Lawrence reported in 2001 for computer science research: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/lawrence.html and what Kurtz et al. reported for astrophysical research: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2829.html (In an ongoing collaboration with Charles Oppenheim we are currently making controlled pairwise comparisons of citation impact between open-access and toll-access articles that appear in the same journal and year, comparing self-archived and non-self-archived articles, across time, and across disciplines. We hope to extend these comparisons with the help of ISI's citation database.) Those individuals, institutions, research-funders, tax-payers and nations who are interested in increasing the visibility, usage and impact of their research output should take special note of these data! Apply the estimates in reverse if you wish to estimate the amount of research impact (and its rewards) being that is currently being *lost* daily, monthly, and yearly by researchers, their institutions, and by research itself as long as we delay providing immediate open access to all research output -- as we could already do today, by self-archiving it. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/che.htm Stevan Harnad

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Hai
by Avinashilingam University 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

Dear Friends, Could anyone enlighten us on the status of librarian in central university and also in state government ( Whether they are under teaching or non teaching ) Lakshmi ___________________________________________________ Medicine meets Marketing; Dr. Swati Weds Jayaram. Rediff Matchmaker strikes another interesting match !! Visit http://rediff.com/matchmaker?2

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LAST DATE [Call for papers ICDL 2004 - 24-27 February New Delhi] 15th September 2004
by Mailing List Manager 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:13:19 +0530 From: Subrata Deb <sdeb(a)teri.res.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: Debal Chandra Kar <dckar(a)teri.res.in> Apologies for cross postings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS: LAST REMINDER LAST DAY FOR RECEIVING ABSTRACTS: 15th SEPTEMBER 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 associte of this event. 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: Build Digital Library Using Open Source Software Tutorial 2: Development and Application of Knowledge Base Management Systems Tutorial 3: Metadata issues: Dublin Core, XML, RDF Tutorial 4: Thesauri and Ontologies in Digital Libraries Tutorial 5: Filtering on the Internet Tutorial 6: Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright issues 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 Metadata issues Archiving cultural heritage and history through digitization Content organization and knowledge management: discovery, organization, retrieval, and models Intellectual propery rights and copyright issues System scalability and interoperability Human machine interface and user interaction 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. Prof. N Balakrishnan, Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, IISc, Bangalore & Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Prof. Rahul Banerjee, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Vidhya Vihar Campus, Pilani, Rajasthan, India 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 Muniram Budhu, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Arizona Dr Harish Chandra, Librarian, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India 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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FW: Junior Project Assistant
by Madhuresh 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

-----Original Message----- From: Mr. V K J Jeevan [mailto:vkj@library.iitkgp.ernet.in] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 7:17 PM To: india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: Junior Project Assistant The Central Library of IIT Kharagpur is looking for a suitable "Junior Project Assistant" on purely contract basis for 18 months only to work in the MHRD sponsored project, A Personalized Selective Access Information System (SAI). Emoluments: Rs. 5000 p.m. Qualifications and experience: B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering/Information Technology/MCA/MSc Computer Science/MLISc with PGDCA Experience: Unix/Linux System Administration and System Programming; Administering Web server on Linux, Programing skills of a high standard in C/C++, visual Programming, and experience in web tools; Oracle database administration and development skills Interested eligible persons may apply on plain paper, giving full bio-data alongwith attested copies of testimonials and a demand draft of Rs. 50/- drawn in favour of IIT Kharagpur payable at Kharagpur to Mr. A K Naskar, Administrative Officer (Projects), Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302, West Bengal, on or before 22nd September, 2003. V K J Jeevan Asst. Librarian IIT, Kharagpur

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Urgent help needed
by Yashwant G. Kanade 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Dear Lis-forum member Cou you any one help me to get a copy of the paper entitled "Darwin's Malthusian Metaphor and Russian Evolutionary thought" by Daniel P. Todes Journal ISIS Vol.-- Issue.-- Year 1997 pp.1853-1917. With Warm Regards YASHWANT G KANADE CES-Library, IISc, Bangalore-12 kanade(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in kanade_yg12(a)yahoo.com

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(Fwd) Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Inf
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:25:12 -0600 Send reply to: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group <LIS-E-JOURNALS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> From: Marian Dworaczek <Marian.Dworaczek(a)USASK.CA> Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information To: LIS-E-JOURNALS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK The September 1, 2003 edition of the "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" is available at: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. This edition includes 1,556 indexed titles. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated. Introduction, which includes sample search and instructions how to use the Subject Index and the Bibliography, is located at: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM This message has been posted to several mailing lists. Please excuse any duplication. ************************************************* *Marian Dworaczek *Assistant Head, Technical Services Division *University of Saskatchewan Library *E-mail: marian.dworaczek(a)usask.ca *Phone: (306) 966-6016 *Fax: (306) 966-5919 *Home Page: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze ------- End of forwarded message ------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Nutch - an open source search engine.
by aprajita suman 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Respected all, Recently we witnessed discussion about the relevance of library skills in current era of IT. Here we have an opportunity to use our skills for something new and exiting. A new open source search engine has come to being called NUTCH.The idea behind Nutch is to create an open-source web search engine where everything is exposed. In contrast, other search engines may be secretive about how they rank pages (implication: Google) or take payment to include sites (implication: all the other major search engines that do paid inclusion). This is a challenging proposition. If you believe in the merits of this project, please try as a developer. details can be seen at: http://www.nutch.org/docs/en/index.html with regards, Aparajita suman, ADIS Student, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, R V college P.O. Bangalore- 560 059. ___________________________________________________ Law meets Electronics; Veena Weds Sanjay. Rediff Matchmaker strikes another interesting match !! Visit http://rediff.com/matchmaker?1

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UGC Newsletter Online
by JK Vijayakumar 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

University Grants Commission started publishing UGC NEWS, its official newsletter from July 2003 as Dr V N Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice-Chairman as the Editor. The online version is available at http://www.ugc.ac.in/newsletter/page1.htm ----------- J K Vijayakumar INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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FW: [BOAI] ACRL Issues Scholarly Communications Principles
by Mailing List Manager 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:41:57 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> ACRL Issues Scholarly Communications Principles and Strategies The Association of College and Research Libraries has issued its "Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication." The document, which was prepared by the ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee and approved by the ACRL Board at the ALA annual conference in Toronto, is the foundation statement for the ACRL scholarly communications initiative. The document contains a brief definition of the existing system of scholarly communication, an overview of the scholarly communication crisis, and an enumeration of general principles and specific strategies that ACRL supports in working for reform of the system of scholarly communication. The document is accessible online at: http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Publications/White_Papers_an d_Reports/Principles_and_Strategies_for_the_Reform_of_Scholarly_Communicati on.htm It will also be published in the September issue of College and Research Library News.

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OPENISIS.ORG temporarily closed in protest against software patents
by Sukhdev Singh 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

Dear Friends, I was surprised to see today that http://www.openisis.org has temporary shut down their site. What they call as a protest against software patents. It would unfortunate if they close it permanently. The Openisis had a potential to be a wonderful software for Library & Information work. I wonder if we can support the open source community..? Regards Sukhdev __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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ejournals
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

Dear Dr Manjunath: The ARL Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists First Edition (2000) lists 3915 peer-reviewed ejournals. You may find the following URL useful. http://db.arl.org/dsej/index.html This site has couple of useful articles. The "Foreword" is also informative as it indicates the growth in the number of ejournals over the years. As for the query on the first ejournal, the following article would be useful: Electronic Journals & Scholarly Communication, by Harter & Kim http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/archive/harter.html Here's an extract from the above article: _________________________________ Although electronic journals (or e-journals) have been under development since 1976 (Turoff and Hiltz, 1982) <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/archive/>, e-journals in their non- experimental phase did not begin until the 1990s, with a few exceptions. The first peer-reviewed electronic, full-text e-journal including graphics was Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials (OJCCT) (Keyhani, 1993) <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/archive/>. In the most recently published list, and one of the few research projects involving e- journals, Hitchcock, Carr, & Hall (1996) <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/archive/> identified 115 scholarly, peer-reviewed e-journals in science and technology, and there are many more in the social science and humanities. These constitute the first wave of what are likely to be many more scholarly e-journals to come _____________________________________ However, it is not clear when it was started. Related Sources: The National Library of Canada has published the following guide: Electronic Publishing: Guide to Best Practices for Canadian Publishers. It is available freely at: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/9/13/index-e.html Another useful site is Electronic Journal Publishing: A Reader Version 2.0 http://www.inasp.info/psi/ejp/index.html This is a goldmine of valuable articles and one of the best sites to start with. For background info on trends in scholarly communication, please see: http://www.arl.org/scomm/index.html Happy reading! T.V. Prafulla Chandra --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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IASLIC Website Update
by Saiful Amin 30 Aug '03

30 Aug '03

Dear All, The IASLIC website's news and search links are working now. The news section has been updated with the announcement of the IASLIC seminar 2003 and the search is given through the Google's index. Please visit: http://www.iaslic.org/ We welcome your feedback at: saifulamin(a)yahoo.com or aditya(a)isibang.ac.in Regards, Saiful Amin ===== Saiful Amin Indian School of Business Gachibowli Hyderabad - 500 019. India. Ph. +91-40-2318-7963/7999 http://purl.org/net/saiful ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Promos: Win TVs, Bikes, DVD players & more! Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com

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Peter Drucker on Librarians
by Koteswara_Tumuluru 29 Aug '03

29 Aug '03

Peter Drucker's interview with Information Outlook. He talks on librarians...very interesting. http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/2002annual/whatsnew/druckfeb.cf m Warm Regards T Koteswara Rao Satyam Computer Services Ltd CHENNAI 600 018 ************************************************************************** This email (including any attachments) is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient/s and may contain material that is CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVATE COMPANY INFORMATION. Any review or reliance by others or copying or distribution or forwarding of any or all of the contents in this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by email and delete all copies; your cooperation in this regard is appreciated. **************************************************************************

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Re: Converting Old Documents into Digital Format
by Mailing List Manager 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 03:28:21 +0000 From: Gowri Ravindranth <gravindranth(a)hotmail.com> I have come across a promotional letter from: Ms. P. Malarvizhi or Ms. R. M. Prathima E-Publishing Co-ordinators Management Information Services No.9, Madanagopal Street Abhiramapuram, Chennai 600 018 Tel: 52108474/24991693 Email: misresume(a)hotmail.com Regards, L. R. Gowri AIRC, Chennai 600 006 ________________________________________________________________________________ Are you a geek? Are you a techno freak? Welcome home!

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Facts and figures on E-journals.
by G. K. Manjunath 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Dear Members, I would like to have some facts and figures on e-journals. If you have come across any reference to this information, please let me know the info and the source. 1. Which was the first E-journal to be published on the net and when (year and publsher )? 2. Latest figure- Number of journals published in E-form, now available on the net ( both free and on subscription ). This would not include archieves and backvolumes sites such as J-store. 3. Is there any yearly, time series data available, showing the growth in e-jls? Thanks, g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************

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How to evaluate software
by sajid sabir 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

I am a student of Master of library inforamtion science, and i wish to know how a library software can be evaluated. thank you. s.s.foazdar MLIS Student M.S.U. ___________________________________________________ Meet your old school or college friends from 1 Million + database... Click here to reunite www.batchmates.com/rediff.asp

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RE: [LIS-Forum] digital library firms
by Rajendra Babu 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Dear Madam, You can contact the following few, most reputed firms who does the digitization projects including publishers, Libraries and so on. 1. Versaware Products and services: E-book Publishing and Undertaking digitization projects Contact: Ms. Geeta/Ruchira North Main road, Koregaon Park Pune-411001 Tel.: 020-6136028 www.varsaware.com 2. IHS (Information Handling Services) Products: Standards & Specifications, Digitization and so on Contact: Mr/ Louis D'mello, Manager India & Sri Lanka Bangalore. India. Ph: 080-5487749 www.ihs.com 3. Kodak India Ltd. Products & Services: Undertaking digitization projects and selling digitization equipment. Contact: Mr. Rao, Vijaya-Vauhini Complex, Arcot Road, Chennai-600 026. Tel. : 044-4833838/4590 www.kodak.com/IN/en/nav/index.jhtml You can refer my name while speaking to any one mentioned above. Hope that helps, Warm Regards, Babu. H Rajendra Babu Business Development Manager Southern Region Global Information System Technologies # 306, Level-3, Prestige Meridian-II, MG Road, Bangalore-01 Ph: +91-80-5595564 or 93 E-mail: rajendra.babu(a)gistglobal.com WebSite: www.gistglobal.com -----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: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:24 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] digital library firms Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:30:05 +0530 From: vrd <vrd(a)powersearch.cpri.res.in> Sir, I would like to know the firms which can digitize the publications and put in to softcopy. If anybody know the addresses may please reply. Thanking you V.R.DESHPANDE SENIOR LIBRARIAN _______________________________________________ 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] digital library firms (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:38:02 -0500 (GMT) From: ppich(a)vsnl.net Ref: Digital Library Firms In Chennai there are a few firms who do the work on digital conversion of documents and digital information processing including metadata creation. I was told they do currently for a few US libraries. They have specilisation in digital conversion including file formating, indexing using metadata and establishing hyperlinking of references. Their contact details are: OMNISCIENT INFO TECH (P) LTD., 044-521 86 703 (O) 044-521 86 704 (O) Director: Mr.Anandprasad email: anandprasadonline(a)yahoo.com Voice Venture com Director: MR. Srikant Krishnamoorty email: srikanth(a)voiceventure.com Information given by P.Pichappan Dept. of Library & Information Science Annamalai University Annamalainagar 608002 TN ==============================================

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Re: [LIS-Forum] digital library firms
by Mailing List Manager 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:52:36 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] A Hariharan" <salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in> dear sir, You can contact AutoLib Software System Chennai They will do the work their web address is: http://autolib-india.net e-mail : autolib(a)yahoo.com thank u John A. Hariharan Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) B2-Solai Apartments (opp. to MGR Garden) Mount-Poonamalle Road Ramapuram Chennai - 600 089 Tel : 044- 2252 2234 , 2252 2448 E-mail: salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in Web : http://autolib-india.net/salis.html Win TVs, Bikes, DVD players and more!Click onYahoo! India Promos

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Re: [LIS-Forum] digital library firms
by Mailing List Manager 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:25:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Mr.G.Bhojaraju <bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com> Dear Mr. DESHPANDE You may contact Dr.Usha Munshi, INSA, Delhi, she may help you in this. "Dr.Usha Munshi" <umunshi(a)hotmail.com> regards Bhojaraju www.bhojarajug.cjb.net Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:30:05 +0530 From: vrd Sir, I would like to know the firms which can digitize the publications and put in to softcopy. If anybody know the addresses may please reply. Thanking you V.R.DESHPANDE SENIOR LIBRARIAN _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Please acknowledge the receipt of the mail !!!G.Bhojaraju.Library-cum-Information Officer, Indian Rubber Manufacturers Research Association (IRMRA), (ISO-9001 Certified), B-88 Road No. 24/ U-2, Wagle Industrial Estate,Thane - 400604. INDIA. Ph:022-25811348, 25803753 Fax: 25823910 Mob: 9892380905 E-mail : bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com www.irmra.org Homepage : http://www.bhojarajug.cjb.net/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

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