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FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Friends: Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find it interesting and useful. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising “a one-hour talk in 30 minutes,” Berners-Lee gave an animated, rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes -- about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative. Berners-Lee’s early remarks focused on his development of the Web. “Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass of things being developed on the Internet,” including protocols such as TCP/IP and other standards. “All I had to do on top of that to create the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was rather arrogant…. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web… and the idea was that it would minimally constraining.” And HTML, the language he created to drive the Web, would be “the cloth on which a tapestry would be made – the jewels, the colors…” Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions between them, what’s come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come and gone, new ways of thinking – and more recently, wikis and blogs. “The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a place where we can all meet and read and write…. Collaborative things are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows they’re [embracing] its creative side.” But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Web’s fundamental design, but for various reasons it didn’t make the cut. “One thing I wanted to put in the original design was the ‘typing’ of links,” he said. For example, let’s say you link your website to another site. At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little information: just an address to get to the other website’s content. But Berners-Lee’s idea was to include “metadata” with each hyperlink to describe the relationship between the two sites. For example: do the people linking their two websites know each other personally, professionally, or not at all? If they’re colleagues, how are they working together, and in what fields? Where are they working? “When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may mean, but a machine doesn’t,” he said. But this idea of embedding large amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didn’t make it into the original Web standard. Now, he’s trying to change that, with an initiative called the Semantic Web. “The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web,” Berners-Lee said. As the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/">World Wide Web Consortium</a> explains, “The Web can reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs must be able to share and process data even when these programs have been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications.” For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldn’t do this. Rather, you’d tell the website to go to a URL that defines a universal standard of what that color looks like. So instead of coding a webpage to say “Color=Red,” you’d say something like “Color=http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2” and your website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This would hold true for all data you include in your website: color, people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs containing descriptive information about that data. Information would not be static or absolute; instead it’s “an abstract concept” that gets sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it. An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a person’s content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes, can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owner’s permission, etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their license with different combinations of these elements. When a content publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their site’s HTML that refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such as the content’s redistribution policy. So when search engines and other automated tools pick up that blogger’s website, they’ll access these URLs and “understand” your copyright policy as you intended it. Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. “The Web is a tangle, your life is a tangle – get used to it.” Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they share. “That’s what it’s all about – connecting things,” he said. The Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a real-world example. “Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases,” he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier. It’s also helping build powerful social networking tools -- friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this information. “Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of this stuff,” Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the Web and find what we’re looking for based on what they know about our needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. “A human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned,” he joked. Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on royalty-free technical standards. “Standards must be royalty free” to foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. “It is very important that we make sure we are not tripped up” by proprietary standards, he said. “With so many ridiculous patents out there, there’s always the threat” that an “underwater patent will torpedo innovation.” Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience, moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe. Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a “play project” that his bosses at Switzerland’s CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working independently, influenced the structure of the Web. “Because it was a lab, it acted more like a web in itself,” so coming up with a virtual web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of sense. Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by fellow scientists. “Hypertext wasn’t considered ‘real’ computing, so I sent it out to alternative news groups,” he said. Some people like the University of Illinois’ Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with it; he went on to found Netscape. Others were less supportive because they didn’t like the technical structure behind it. “Why do I have to use your horrible angle brackets?” they would say to him. “Do you remember the names of these people?” Metcalfe asked rather mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question. Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didn’t patent the standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. “Some people have said, ‘Isn’t it a shame all these commercial things came about?’” he noted. “But most people wanted a commercial browser.” The private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted. Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started playing with Mozilla’s new open source Firefox browser as well. Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving consensus in distributed group projects. “If you take little groups, they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups together, they don’t share their ideas, and have different values towards how things should be built…. This takes a lot more energy than figuring out how to do it yourself…. Making consensus, communicating with other people is hard work.” “I had the luxury to do this myself… with nobody there to object,” he continued. “But now we’re doing things … where there are lot of people interested in getting involved. … If you want to do something, do it yourself.” As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on the Web as an educational tool. “I’d like to see lots of curricula like the <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html">MIT Open Courseware initiative</a> being picked up by K-12,” he said. “The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as “The Font of All Knowledge”). You really need to keep education materials sown together. So I’d love to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts to keep these things up to date, but I’d [even] like to see teachers help contribute to it.” “Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other,” he concluded. “And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots of technology… There’s lots of work to do out there.” -- -------------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ -------------------------------------- FW: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web Friends: Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find it interesting and useful. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising “a one-hour talk in 30 minutes,” Berners-Lee gave an animated, rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes -- about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative. Berners-Lee’s early remarks focused on his development of the Web. “Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass of things being developed on the Internet,” including protocols such as TCP/IP and other standards. “All I had to do on top of that to create the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was rather arrogant…. HTTP was a new scheme for the Web… and the idea was that it would minimally constraining.” And HTML, the language he created to drive the Web, would be “the cloth on which a tapestry would be made – the jewels, the colors…” Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions between them, what’s come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come and gone, new ways of thinking – and more recently, wikis and blogs. “The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a place where we can all meet and read and write…. Collaborative things are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows they’re [embracing] its creative side.” But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Web’s fundamental design, but for various reasons it didn’t make the cut. “One thing I wanted to put in the original design was the ‘typing’ of links,” he said. For example, let’s say you link your website to another site. At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little information: just an address to get to the other website’s content. But Berners-Lee’s idea was to include “metadata” with each hyperlink to describe the relationship between the two sites. For example: do the people linking their two websites know each other personally, professionally, or not at all? If they’re colleagues, how are they working together, and in what fields? Where are they working? “When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may mean, but a machine doesn’t,” he said. But this idea of embedding large amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didn’t make it into the original Web standard. Now, he’s trying to change that, with an initiative called the Semantic Web. “The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web,” Berners-Lee said. As the <a href=" http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ ">World Wide Web Consortium</a> explains, “The Web can reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs must be able to share and process data even when these programs have been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications.” For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldn’t do this. Rather, you’d tell the website to go to a URL that defines a universal standard of what that color looks like. So instead of coding a webpage to say “Color=Red,” you’d say something like “Color= http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 ” and your website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This would hold true for all data you include in your website: color, people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs containing descriptive information about that data. Information would not be static or absolute; instead it’s “an abstract concept” that gets sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it. An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a person’s content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes, can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owner’s permission, etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their license with different combinations of these elements. When a content publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their site’s HTML that refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such as the content’s redistribution policy. So when search engines and other automated tools pick up that blogger’s website, they’ll access these URLs and “understand” your copyright policy as you intended it. Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. “The Web is a tangle, your life is a tangle – get used to it.” Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they share. “That’s what it’s all about – connecting things,” he said. The Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a real-world example. “Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases,” he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier. It’s also helping build powerful social networking tools -- friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this information. “Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of this stuff,” Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the Web and find what we’re looking for based on what they know about our needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. “A human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned,” he joked. Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on royalty-free technical standards. “Standards must be royalty free” to foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. “It is very important that we make sure we are not tripped up” by proprietary standards, he said. “With so many ridiculous patents out there, there’s always the threat” that an “underwater patent will torpedo innovation.” Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience, moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe. Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a “play project” that his bosses at Switzerland’s CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working independently, influenced the structure of the Web. “Because it was a lab, it acted more like a web in itself,” so coming up with a virtual web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of sense. Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by fellow scientists. “Hypertext wasn’t considered ‘real’ computing, so I sent it out to alternative news groups,” he said. Some people like the University of Illinois’ Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with it; he went on to found Netscape. Others were less supportive because they didn’t like the technical structure behind it. “Why do I have to use your horrible angle brackets?” they would say to him. “Do you remember the names of these people?” Metcalfe asked rather mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question. Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didn’t patent the standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. “Some people have said, ‘Isn’t it a shame all these commercial things came about?’” he noted. “But most people wanted a commercial browser.” The private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted. Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started playing with Mozilla’s new open source Firefox browser as well. Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving consensus in distributed group projects. “If you take little groups, they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups together, they don’t share their ideas, and have different values towards how things should be built…. This takes a lot more energy than figuring out how to do it yourself…. Making consensus, communicating with other people is hard work.” “I had the luxury to do this myself… with nobody there to object,” he continued. “But now we’re doing things … where there are lot of people interested in getting involved. … If you want to do something, do it yourself.” As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on the Web as an educational tool. “I’d like to see lots of curricula like the <a href=" http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html ">MIT Open Courseware initiative</a> being picked up by K-12,” he said. “The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as “The Font of All Knowledge”). You really need to keep education materials sown together. So I’d love to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts to keep these things up to date, but I’d [even] like to see teachers help contribute to it.” “Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other,” he concluded. “And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots of technology… There’s lots of work to do out there.” -- -------------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ --------------------------------------

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Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Eme rging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Friends: I received this message today in the mail. Some of you may find the information useful. Best wishes. Arun ---- Subject: Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use A report from USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future. Here's a snippet from the press release: "Among the findings from Year Four of the Digital Future Project: * Internet access has risen to its highest level ever. About three-quarters of Americans now go online. * The number of hours spent online continues to increase, rising to an average of 12.5 hours per week - the highest level in the study thus far. * Although the Internet has become the most important source of current information for users, the initially high level of credibility of information on the Internet began to drop in the third year of the study, and declined even further in Year Four. * The number of users who believe that only about half of the information on the Internet is accurate and reliable is growing and has now passed 40 percent of users for the first time. * The study showed that most users trust information on the websites they visit regularly, and on pages created by established media and the government. * Information pages posted by individuals have the lowest credibility: only 9.5 percent of users say information on those sites is reliable and accurate. * Television viewing continues to decline among Internet users, raising the question: "What will happen as a nation that once spent an extremely large portion of time in a passive activity (watching television) transfers increasingly large portions of that time to an interactive activity (the Internet)?" Read more at: http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTypeI d=1http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTy peId=1 or the tiny version: http://tinyurl.com/54n84 (found via Instructional Technology Resources and Musings: http://mariettatitleiii.blogspot.com/) Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use Friends: I received this message today in the mail. Some of you may find the information useful. Best wishes. Arun ---- Subject: Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use A report from USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future. Here's a snippet from the press release: "Among the findings from Year Four of the Digital Future Project: * Internet access has risen to its highest level ever. About three-quarters of Americans now go online. * The number of hours spent online continues to increase, rising to an average of 12.5 hours per week - the highest level in the study thus far. * Although the Internet has become the most important source of current information for users, the initially high level of credibility of information on the Internet began to drop in the third year of the study, and declined even further in Year Four. * The number of users who believe that only about half of the information on the Internet is accurate and reliable is growing and has now passed 40 percent of users for the first time. * The study showed that most users trust information on the websites they visit regularly, and on pages created by established media and the government. * Information pages posted by individuals have the lowest credibility: only 9.5 percent of users say information on those sites is reliable and accurate. * Television viewing continues to decline among Internet users, raising the question: "What will happen as a nation that once spent an extremely large portion of time in a passive activity (watching television) transfers increasingly large portions of that time to an interactive activity (the Internet)?" Read more at: http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTypeI http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTypeI d=1 http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTy http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/news_content.asp?intGlobalId=125&intTy peId=1 or the tiny version: http://tinyurl.com/54n84 http://tinyurl.com/54n84 (found via Instructional Technology Resources and Musings: http://mariettatitleiii.blogspot.com/ http://mariettatitleiii.blogspot.com/ )

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Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria, Bangalore-Report
by Shalini R. Urs 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

UNESCO Interactive Workshop on eBooks, Hotel Atria, Bangalore September 16, 2004 (http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook). ---------- Envisioning the potential of eBooks in promoting and supporting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based- student centred learning, UNESCO is engaged in a project on developing guidelines for eBooks. The mission of this project is to carry out a scoping and exploratory study of the eBooks and develop guidelines for the production, promotion and usage of eBooks. This consultancy project involved three phases- desk top research; questionnaire based user study and an Interactive Workshop The Interactive Workshop on eBooks, was organised on September 16, 2004 and held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore. The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr.S.Ramakrishanan, Executive Director, C-DAC, Pune. Dr. Lucy A Tedd of University of Wales gave the keynote and Dr.Susanne Ornager, Advisor, Communication and Information for Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO, New Delhi chaired the session. The invitation only Workshop was an important milestone in the Project, with more than seventy participants representing the diverse stakeholders community. There were forty three information professionals; twenty four end users and technologists; and six from the publishing/aggregator industry in the Workshop, engaged in interacting, deliberating and debating on the gamut of issues- from definitions to design to delivery mechanisms. The format of the Workshop was designed to be interactive with each session having speakers and a moderator to lead the discussions with a set of issues/questions. The inaugural session was followed by three sessions- user and technology perspective; author and publisher perspective; and aggregator and library perspective. Prof. R.Kalyana Krishnan of IIT, Chennai, Prof.G.Misra of Indian Statistical Institute, Mr.Sanjiv Goswami of Springer, N.V.Sathyanarayana of Informatics India, Dr.Primalini Kukanesan of National Library of Malaysia and Dr. Deepali Talagala of Sri Lanka Library Association were the speakers at these sessions. The three sessions were moderated by Mr. Anand T. Byrappa of GE, Prof. I.K.Ravichandra Rao of Indian Statistical Institute and Dr.Venkadesan of Indian Institute of Science respectively. There were product presentations by John Wiley and Springer. The Workshop objective of gaining insights from different perspective was achieved and the interactions helped in drawing meaningful conclusions and providing the necessary inputs for the drafting of framework for the guidelines document. For more detailed report, presentations and details of the Project visit the website http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------ Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209

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Announcement
by N Murali 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

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30 Sep '04

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by maheshj＠mastek.com 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

Hi Kishore, I haven't worked much on Greenstone but u can achieve the Web based document security by following ways. First Method. Using Adobe Acrobat Writer. Details are in attached document. Limitation : It doesn't restrict "Save As" option at Web Based Environment and u need to have licensed adobe acrobat writer. Second Method C the Below Link of a sample page, Where u can secure web pages and restrict printing, copying and modifications If this fulfills ur requirement Pls. let me know will send u the JavaScript code for the same. http://www.freewebs.com/assist2004/securing.htm Limitation : U need to convert the all documents to HTML or any web formats like asp, jsp based on ur Web browser. Sorry I haven't worked much on the Greenstone so will not be able to give u the views on that. Regards Mahesh N Juttiyavar Sr. Exe. Information Repository Mastek Ltd. B-6, SDF VII, SEEPZ Andheri (E), Mumbai -96 Phone: 91-22-56952222 Ext. 1547 Mob.: 9870077332 Personal Site : http://www.freewebs.com/maheshj -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. -----Original Message----- From: Kishore Ingale [mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:05 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information Dear Colleagues, We are experimenting with providing access to our digital documents to users through web based server (using Greenstone). Collection mostly include MS WORD and PDF documents. Is it possible to implement security with which "users will be able to view documents but not able to download / save" these files at their end.. ? Kishore Ingale ikishore(a)rediffmail.com ForwardSourceID:NT000043C2 http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… MASTEK "Making a valuable difference" Mastek in NASSCOM's 'India Top 20' Software Service Exporters List. In the US, we're called MAJESCO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual and not that of Mastek Limited, unless specifically indicated to that effect. Mastek Limited does not accept any responsibility or liability for it. This e-mail and attachments (if any) transmitted with it are confidential and/or privileged and solely for the use of the intended person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. This e-mail and its attachments have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. It is the responsibility of the recipient to run the virus check on e-mails and attachments before opening them. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly delete this e-mail from all computers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

Friends: Stevan Harnad has sent references to a few more papers which provide evidence that open access increases research impact. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:30 AM To: si(a)wsis-cs.org Cc: oa-india(a)dgroups.org; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; ISSI(a)LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES Subject: [SI] Re: Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact? On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > Antelman, Kristin. "Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater > Research Impact?" College & Research Libraries 65(5) > (September 2004): 372-382. > (http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002309/). - For those who have > been working to create open access repositories of research and > scholarship, this article is a godsend. For more godsends, see: "The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies" http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html Prior AmSci Threads: How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2858.html Measuring cumulating research impact loss across fields and time http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3212.html On the Strong Causal Connection Between Access and Impact http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3696.html Early Download Impact Predicts Later Citation Impact http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3950.html Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact? http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3975.html Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact? Friends: Stevan Harnad has sent references to a few more papers which provide evidence that open access increases research impact. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad [ mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk ] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:30 AM To: si(a)wsis-cs.org Cc: oa-india(a)dgroups.org; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; ISSI(a)LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES Subject: [SI] Re: Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact? On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > Antelman, Kristin. "Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater > Research Impact?" College & Research Libraries 65(5) > (September 2004): 372-382. > ( http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002309/ http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002309/ ). - For those who have > been working to create open access repositories of research and > scholarship, this article is a godsend. For more godsends, see: "The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies" http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html Prior AmSci Threads: How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2858.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2858.html Measuring cumulating research impact loss across fields and time http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3212.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3212.html On the Strong Causal Connection Between Access and Impact http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3696.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3696.html Early Download Impact Predicts Later Citation Impact http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3950.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3950.html Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact? http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3975.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3975.html

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OA and research impact
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

Friends: Here is an article you might wish to read. Antelman, Kristin. "[7]Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?" [8]College & Research Libraries 65(5) (September 2004): 372-382. (http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002309/). - For those who have been working to create open access repositories of research and scholarship, this article is a godsend. Antelman performed a formal study of whether open access articles are cited more frequently than those only available through subscription services. The short answer is "yes". For the long answer, as well as to review her methodology, see the (yes) open access article. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] OA and research impact Friends: Here is an article you might wish to read. Antelman, Kristin. "[7]Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?" [8]College & Research Libraries 65(5) (September 2004): 372-382. ( http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002309/ http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002309/ ). - For those who have been working to create open access repositories of research and scholarship, this article is a godsend. Antelman performed a formal study of whether open access articles are cited more frequently than those only available through subscription services. The short answer is "yes". For the long answer, as well as to review her methodology, see the (yes) open access article. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Request for Information
by Kishore Ingale 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

Dear Colleagues, We are experimenting with providing access to our digital documents to users through web based server (using Greenstone). Collection mostly include MS WORD and PDF documents. Is it possible to implement security with which users will be able to view documents but not able to download / save these files at their end.. ? Kishore Ingale ikishore(a)rediffmail.com ForwardSourceID:NT000043C2 http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… Dear Colleagues, We are experimenting with providing access to our digital documents to users through web based server (using Greenstone). Collection mostly include MS WORD and PDF documents. Is it possible to implement security with which users will be able to view documents but not able to download / save these files at their end.. ? Kishore Ingale ikishore(a)rediffmail.com ForwardSourceID:NT000043C2

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Position Announcement--Content Developers (3 posts)
by prafulla tv 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for the position of CONTENT DEVELOPERS (3 posts) NES and its affiliates together comprise one of the foremost database access, production and publishing companies in the world. NES�s 100+ database products, published online (BiblioLine) or on CD-ROM (NISC DISCover) and print, cover most areas of the universe of knowledge �arts & humanities, earth sciences, environment, social sciences, life sciences and technology. Based in Hyderabad, the successful candidate would be responsible for the design of various database products, using latest information and communication technologies. NES is looking for candidates who have a MLISc or any other equivalent degree. In addition, the candidates should possess the ability to communicate in a formal, clear, empathetic and pleasant style, with excellent command of written and spoken English. Good typing skills are required as the working environment involves online computer use for access to offices worldwide. If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume. Apart from on-job training inputs, NES provides a comfortable, pleasant and enjoyable work environment with bright career prospects and exciting opportunities to realize one�s potentialities. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. NES considers applications from candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results, Please submit a letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of three references to: The Managing Director NISC Export Services Co. Pvt. Ltd. 3rd Floor, Ballad Estates, St. Ann�s Road, Tarnaka Hyderabad 500 017 Email: hrd(a)nisc.co.in Phone: +91 40 27001517 Applications are accepted until position is filled. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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