- LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Workshop on cloud computing 18-20, Aug at IIT Madras
by hrmohan＠vsnl.com 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Dear all, A three day workshop on Cloud Computing is being organised by CSI & IEEE during 18-20, Aug 2010 at Chennai bringing together major leaders in cloud computing. The details of the pgm is given below. For the pdf brochure and other details, pl. visit the website http://www.csi-chennai.org/wcc/ With the generous sponsorship from the organizations, we are able to offer subsidized fee (as detailed below) for this THREE days event with a no. of takeaways including a ref. book (http://www.csi-chennai.org/wcc/cc-book.pdf) and Amazon AWS coupon worth USD 25. Industry Delegates: Rs. 1500 Members of CSI, IEEE: Rs. 1250 Academic Faculty & Researchers: Rs. 1250 Student Members of CSI & IEEE: Rs. 1000 We will be thankful if you could attend the pgm and also sponsor some of your colleagues for this programme. Also, pl. forward this msg to some of your friends who may find this pgm useful. Or, pl. provide their email ids to us so that we can send them the msg. With regards HR Mohan Chairman, CSI Div IV & IEEE CS Ph: +91 98414 32179 PROGRAMME DETAILS ================== Workshop on Cloud Computing 18-20, Aug 2010 at IIT Madras, Chennai, India Organised by Computer Society of India Div IV (Communication), Chennai Chapter and SIG-Grid Computing and IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter Supported by Platinum Sponsors: Yahoo, Google, HP, Amazon, IBM, HCL, TCS, Hitachi Gold Sponsors: Novell, VMware, CSS Corp, Ramco, Cognizant ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: In the past decade, the advent of Internet has opened up several exciting new opportunities for business excellence, cost effectiveness and efficiency. Cloud Computing is the latest in such innovations that has brought computing power within reach of every organization. Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption and delivery model for IT services over the Internet. This model follows that of typical utilities like electricity and water which we have got used to in the past century. Cloud Computing offers the computing processing power, storage, network bandwidth, software usage, software development, testing, security, identity etc., as services over the Internet. This model offers unprecedented scalability wherein the user can add resources on demand and give them up when not needed, instead of the classical model of over-investing in infrastructure and managing at a huge cost; tremendous cost-effectiveness by providing a “pay per use” model and ensures professional management of the infrastructure. It is fair to say that this model is bound to change the facade of IT usage across the world in the immediate near future. Analysts estimate that by 2012, in India, 30% of the organizations (both corporate & SMEs) will move their applications on the cloud. Also, CIOs will be under tremendous pressure to optimize their expenses which will make them to look at cloud as the natural choice in the years to come. Further, according to a recent study by Zinnov Management Consulting, the global cloud computing market is estimated to touch over $ 70 billion by 2015 with an offshorable piece of about $ 20 billion, of which Indian IT companies are well placed to grab 30% by building applications on the cloud platform, doing support work, or product engineering etc., Further, cloud-based services are estimated to create over 3 lakh jobs in India in the next five years. This three day workshop on Cloud Computing, organized by the Computer Society of India and IEEE Computer Society, provides a platform in which experts from top notch organizations that are rewriting computing history such as Yahoo, Google, HP, IBM, Amazon, HCL, TCS, Hitachi, VMware, Novell, CSS Corp, Ramco and Cognizant will share their experiences apart from introducing various aspects of cloud computing. Some of the typical sessions would include Virtualization and its effect on cloud; Yahoo’s Hadoop framework for cloud application development; Google applications on cloud; Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services; Storage as a Service; Cloud infrastructure and services offerings; Open source stack for cloud computing and identity services; Best practices, migration strategies, management & security issues for cloud applications. With a session on “Research Trends in Cloud Computing” and a panel discussion on “Are we Ready for Cloud Computing” along with a few user experience sharing sessions, this workshop would offer the participants, the best opportunity to get a first hand knowledge by hearing “from the horse’s mouth”, the specifics -- both business and technology perspectives of the emerging area of cloud computing. TARGET AUDIENCE: The workshop is designed to appeal to a wide variety of participants and include: CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, IT Heads of both corporate enterprises and SME organizations from all verticals such as manufacturing, retail, healthcare, BFSI, telecom, hospitality, education, e-Governance etc., Project Managers, Application Developers from IT/ITES organizations, Entrepreneurs venturing into setting up their businesses by offering cloud based applications, Academic Faculty, Researchers and final year BE/BTech/MCA students aspiring to join the IT industry. VENUE: IC & SR Auditorium, IIT Madras, Chennai DATES & TIMINGS: 18 – 20, Aug 2010 :: 09.30 to 17.30 hrs TAKEAWAYS: Apart from the opportunity to hear the technical presentations from the Industry leaders in Cloud Computing, each delegate will be provided with the following five items. - Workshop Kit - Presentations along with white papers, user case studies, success stories on a CD (subject to the IPR guidelines by the resource persons and their organizations) - AWS coupon worth USD 25 to try out Amazon Web Services - A hard copy of the best selling book (http://www.csi-chennai.org/wcc/cc-book.pdf ) "Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach" by Anthony T. Velte, Toby J. Velte and Robert C. Elsenpeter, published by TMH and priced at Rs. 475/= or a standard book on Cloud Computing for reference - Certificate of Participation PROGRAMME FEE: With the generous sponsorship from the organizations, we are able to offer subsidized fee for this THREE days event with a no. of takeaways listed above. Industry Delegates: Rs. 1500 Members of CSI, IEEE: Rs. 1250 Academic Faculty, Researchers & Students: Rs. 1250 Student Members of CSI & IEEE: Rs. 1000 (Note: Students should attach a copy of the membership card and a certificate from the HOD / Principal along with registration form and payment. Right of acceptance is reserved based on the flow of registrations.) REGISTRATION: Registration will be done on "First come first served" basis. As seats are limited, early registration is highly recommended to avoid disappointment. DD/Cheque to be drawn in favour of “COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIA – CHENNAI CHAPTER” and payable at Chennai. Pl. mail your registration form with the payment on or before 5th Aug 2010 to: Mr. S. Ramasamy c/o Integrated Databases India Ltd Rosy Towers, 3rd Floor 7, Nungambakkam High Road Chennai – 600034 For registration related information, please contact Mr. S. Ramaswamy, Mobile: +91 98400 09417 :: Email: sypsys(a)vsnl.com OR Mr. K. Adhivarahan, Mobile: +91 94442 75315 :: Email: adhivarahan(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.csi-chennai.org/wcc/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further assistance, please contact Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chairman - CSI Div IV & IEEE CS, hrmohan.csi(a)gmail.com Mr. G. Ramesh, Chairman - Programme, gopalaswamy_ramesh(a)yahoo.com Dr. D. Janakiram, Chairman - SIG-DS, djram(a)iitm.ac.in Dr. P. Sakthivel, Chairman - CSI Chennai, sakthi_velp(a)yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

Koha Union Catalog - Archive & Access Project
by savitra sirohi 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

All, The Archive and Access project aims to set up a consortium of archives and libraries in India with the purpose of catalog sharing and eventual sharing of full text digitized resources. The project is is supported by the Jamsetji Tata Trust and housed at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore. A union catalog has been setup on Koha: http://69.164.216.175/ Currently there is 1 participating institution: South Asian Bible College This will be a union catalog of historical collections of libraries and archives from different parts of the India. This is an ongoing process, with the regular introduction of new institutions to the catalog. The project wishes to solicit contributions from libraries, organizations, historians and other scholars for this catalog. Those interested in participating can contact project members at: publicarchivesindia(a)gmail.com. More information about the project is available here: http://publicarchives.org/ Thanks, Savitra Sirohi Nucsoft OSS Labs http://www.osslabs.biz -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

Fwd: CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Jul 2010
by hrmohan＠vsnl.com 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

-- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

Vacancy at NIO, Goa
by Satyaranjan Sahu 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Dear Members, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa requires two temporary staffs (project Assistants) for its library. The selection will be based on the interview. Those who are interested may attend the walk-in-interview with all original certificates on 26th July 2010 at 09am at NIO, Dona Paula, Goa -403 004. The detailed information as follows: http://www.nio.org/index/option/com_vacgoa/task/show/title/Goa/tid/6/sid/28/ thid/64 Name of the position: Project Assistant -II Number of positions: 2 Consolidated Stipend per month: Rs. 12000/- Position required to be filled for period of months - 12 months Maximum age as on date of interview: 28 yrs Essential qualification: Bachelors degree in Science and Masters Degree in Library Science Job requirement: Participate in the housekeeping of the institute's library and its services and input to the national and international databases Posting at: Goa Date and time of interview: 26/07/2010 10:00 AM Place of interview: NIO Dona Paula, Goa-403004 The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) with its headquarters at Dona Paula, Goa, and regional centers at Kochi, Mumbai and Visakhapatnam, is one of the 38 constituent laboratories of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. The institute has about 200 scientists and 100 technical support staff. In addition, over 240 undergraduate and postgraduate students pursue their project research at this institute every year. With the largest collection of ocean scientists in the country, and equipped with suitable ocean research infrastructure, NIO serves as an advanced center of education in ocean sciences. The NIO library has been recognized as the National Information Centre for Marine Sciences (NICMAS) since mid 90s. While catering to the needs of the users from within the institute, it is also committed to serve the marine information seekers within and outside India. Most of the operations in the library have been computerized. Regards Satya -------------------------------------------- Satya Ranjan Sahu Scientist National Information Centre for Marine Sciences (Library) National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR) Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004 Phone: 0832-2450370 (O); Fax-91-(0)832-2450601 -------------------------------------------------- www.nio.org www.reefindia.org www.mangroveindia.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

Classify and RDA: A New approach to classification and cataloging
by Badan Barman 04 Jul '10

04 Jul '10

Respected forum members, The classification and cataloging undergoing a major shift and changes. You are requested to go through my two topics that i posted over the following URL's 1. “Classify: An experimental classification web service” from OCLC: My Experience: http://lislinks.ning.com/forum/topics/classify-an-experimental 2. Resource Description and Access (RDA) Published Over the Web: Enjoy Free Open Access until August 31, 2010: http://lislinks.ning.com/forum/topics/resource-description-and-1 Thanking you Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman) Academic Consultant in LIS -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

Getting your feet wet: An introduction to Open Access
by Shamprasad Pujar 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

** Sorry for Cross Postings, if any ** Dear Members, Research Information Network [RIN], UK has published an interesting guide on Open Access, to give researchers, librarians, publishers and information professionals a basic understanding of the Open Access movement. You may access the guide at: http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/open_access_booklet_screen.pdf This could be of interest to you. Regards, Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar Commonwealth Professional Fellow-2008 Deputy Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Film City Road, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India Phone: 91-22-2841 6547 ; 2840 0919 Ext: 547 E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in Skype: sham.pujar URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in Blog: http://spujar.wordpress.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

[ELF] Research journals to get UGC funds
by Engg-Lib-Forum from India 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

Research journals to get UGC funds The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to sanction funds for bringing out research journals and hosting seminars as presentation of research papers by college teachers will, for the first time, be considered for their promotion. “Since there may not be sufficient journals in which college teachers could publish their papers and subject associations like History Association or the Economics Association played an important role in bringing together scholars, giving them an opportunity to present papers and publish these in the journals brought out by the associations, the UGC would support these associations in order to help them upgrade their activities,” UGC chairperson Sukhadeo Thorat told Deccan Herald. “This annual assistance can be to the tune of Rs 10-15 lakh per association or journal,” he said. Similar support could also be provided to good quality journals being published by university departments and other research institutions. At present, the UGC has no such specific scheme. The commission had earlier taken a decision to support a few umbrella associations such as the Indian Science Congress and the Indian Social Science Congress. The objective of the scheme will be to support subject associations in social sciences and humanities in organising specified activities in order to encourage teachers and researchers to participate in conferences/seminars/workshops and to present papers leading to publication, wherever possible. The scheme will be open to all national subject associations which fulfil certain criteria such as minimum membership size, duration of existence and regular audits for at least three years. A core annual assistance of upto Rs 3 lakh per year will be provided to national-level subject associations for secretariat support, day-to-day office expenses, communication and dissemination of their activities and outputs. It will also provide financial support of upto Rs 7 lakh for holding annual conference of national subject associations and for publication of conference proceedings. The support under the head “Journals” will be subject to a maximum of Rs 5 lakh for academic association and Rs 3 lakh for university department or 50 per cent of the audited cost of publication, distribution and dissemination of the journal, whichever is less. An assistance of Rs 2 lakh will be available for holding national and regional conferences, seminars as well as workshops for the upgradation of teaching and research. Associations such as the Indian Science Congress or the Indian Social Science Congress may be provided an assistance of upto Rs 20 lakh annually. -- Posted By Engg-Lib-Forum from India to ELF at 7/02/2010 09:17:00 PM -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

Copying of a Subject of a letter published in lisforum
by sabuj kumar chaudhuri 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

Dear friends, Mr. Badan Barman of lislinks has published one news on1st July 2010 (http://lislinks.ning.com/forum/topics/university-of-calcutta) has copied subject heading of my letter published on 30th June 2010 in lisforum in the following subject heading-- "[LIS-Forum] Revolutionary & Landmark Step in the Field of Library & Information Science" sabuj kumar chaudhuri sabuj_c at yahoo.co.uk Wed Jun 30 22:06:10 IST 2010 e-mail has also copyright for its content (qualitative as well as quantitative).Because it is the creation of the author.Before using my punch word (Revolutionary & Landmark Step in the Field of Library & Information Science) he should seek permission from the author.He has failed to do so and unfortuanately violated the copyright of the author.Considering unintentional , I hope, in future, he will be very cautious and serious about the matter before uploading any such plagiarised content. with best wishes Dr. Sabuj Kr. Chaudhuri ---------------------------------------------- Dr.Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri [M.Sc in Marine Sc.(First Class First, Univ.of Calcutta, AIS (NISCAIR,CSIR, New Delhi), MLIS, UGC(JRF)NET, PhD (Jadavpur Univ.), W.B.C.S.(Ex.)] Librarian (W.B.C.S.C.) Basanti Devi College (Govt. Sponsored)[http://www.basantidebicollege.org] (An affiliated college under the University of Calcutta) 147B, Rash Behari Avenue Kolkata-700 029,West Bengal India Phone:(033)24197449 ; Mob-9434457215 email:sabooj_c@yahoo.co.in ;sabuj_c(a)yahoo.co.uk Website:www.geocities.com/sabuj_c/sabuj.html Blog:http://sabooj.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

Announcing International Conference on Digital Library Management (ICDLM) 201
by Debal Chandra Kar 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

International Conference on Digital Library Management (ICDLM) Theme: Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries Science City, Kolkata, 11-13 January, 2011 Venue: Science City, Kolkata Organiser: TERI, New Delhi Co-Organiser: Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Kolkata Continuous capacity development and awareness programmes are necessary to achieve the objective of transforming the novice into digital librarians of future. The success of ICDL 2004, ICDL 2006 and 2010 has encouraged and motivated TERI, New Delhi and Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata in partnership with Ministry of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi to conduct of the ICDLM 2011 which will provide yet another stimulating forum for DL professionals to share their knowledge, experience and wisdom. The theme of the proposed conference is “Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries”. The conference will focus on creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries, e-learning and a knowledge society. We invite you all to submit your research paper. Objectives · Provide a platform and enable interaction among DL experts and researchers · Facilitate creation adoption, implementation and utilization of DL‘s, and their future implications · Bridging the digital divide through knowledge sharing Who should participate? (a) Professionals from public, academic and special libraries (b) Information Technology professionals. (c) Content and knowledge managers (d) Policy makers (e) Academicians, students and distance learners (f) Archivists and museologists (g) Information providers and vendors. (h) E-publishers and virtual electronic communities (i) Library and Information Science professionals. (j) All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business. Call for papers Original papers focusing on the theme of the conference— Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries are invited for the. Some of the topics are listed below: § DL development and management § Content organization and management § DL architecture and access management § Knowledge management § Digital preservation § DL standards and policy § Thesauri and ontologies, semantics, metadata and retrieval § Open archives initiatives/PMH § Multilingual and interoperability § Copyrights issues in digital environment § DL services and applications § Collaboration and Networking between public libraries º Digital initiatives of public libraries § Open Educational resources Important dates Submission of full papers 20 October 2010 Notification of acceptance of paper with comments 05 November 2010 Submission of the revised paper after incorporating comments 20 November 2010 Registration: Delegates fee | Up to 30 November 2010 | After 30 November 2010 ------------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------- | | India and SAARC | Indian Rs 3000 + Rs 309 | Indian Rs 3500 + Rs 360 countries | service tax | service tax ------------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------- | | Other countries | US$ 125 | US$ 150 (including | | service tax) | | For more details Contact: DEBAL C KAR, PhD Organizing Secretary ICDLM Secretariat TERI, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003, India Telephone 24644654, 24682100, 41504900 Fax 24682144, 24682145 E-mail icdlm(a)teri.res.in Web www.teriin.org/events/icdlm India +91 • Delhi (0)11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: The information contained in this e-mail is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed, and it may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review or other use of this mail or taking any action based on it by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender, and delete all copies of this mail.This e-mail has been scanned and verified by McAfee SaaS Email Security, formerly MX Logic. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

ISKO International Conference -2012
by SRELS 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

Dear Moderator: Kindly arrange to announce the following Circular for the benefit of Library and Information Science professionals. K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science *********** INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION (India Chapter) c/o Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010, India Ph: (080) 23305109 E-mail: srels(a)dataone.in ISKO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (ISKO 2012) Topic: Categories, Conceptual Structures, Contents and Relations in Knowledge Organization will be held in Bangalore from 6-9th August 2012 ----------------------- We invite individuals and Institutions to become members of ISKO. Annual Individual Membership: Rs. 1,500\- (for 2010) Annual Institutional Membership: Rs. 3,000\- (for 2010) Membership will entitle you to: • receive issues of Knowledge Organization (Quarterly) (or access to electronic version) • discount in registration fee for the ISKO 2012 International Conference. Membership Fee should be paid by DD favouring ISKO (India Chapter) and mailed to: International Society of Knowledge Organization (India Chapter), Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010, India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0