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ICADL 2004 (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

The 7th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries ------- International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization Call for papers After its six-year��s efficient exploration in offering a forum to promote and share the latest development of technology of digital library, the International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) has turned out to be a grand annual event in the library and IT communities in Asia and the world as well. The 7th ICADL Conference in 2004 will be hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Library in Shanghai, China from December 13 to 17. The theme of this conference is: ��Digital Libraries �C International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization��. Papers are solicited in a wide variety of digital library related areas, including (but not limited to): Main Topics: Service and Management ��New forms and models of DL services; ��Digital library performance, resources, usefulness, usability and evaluation; ��User studies: user communities, user needs, user behavior, usage pattern; ��Social, legal and economic issues related DL, such as privacy, intelligence property, information security, sustainability; ��Knowledge management and its application in DL; ��New institution roles and responsibilities of DL in 21st century. ��Live reference service ��Personalization service Collaboration and Localization �� Case studies on successful national, cross-regional and international DL collaboration projects and impact in Asia-Pacific Region; ��Preserving, organizing and disseminating Asian unique and indigenous knowledge and culture; ��Novel methods and tools for Asian languages information processing. ��Exploring a Cross-Culture Context for DL studies in Asia, social impacts of DL in Asia. Technology ��Digital library system: architectures, interoperability, mobile applications, agents related to DL; ��Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery, meta-information integration, Mass storage; ��Information retrieval and data mining: novel IR technologies of text and multimedia, data mining; multi- and cross-lingual data access and searching, machine translation and machine learning; �� Information organization and content management: metadata and OAI, ontologies and semantic web, topic maps; ��Human-computer interaction: interfaces, visualization, portals, personalization; ��Technical standards��protocol in DL area and implication strategies; ��Grid technologies and digital libraries ��E-publication Proceedings Conference Proceedings will be composed of long (full) papers (10 pages), short papers (4 pages) and poster papers (2 pages) and be published by Springer��s Lecture Note Series in Computer Science (LNCS). Important Date: Submission of Abstracts (full papers only) June 10, 2004 Submission of Full Papers July 1, 2004 Submission of Short Papers July 1, 2004 Papers should be written in English and submitted in electronic format. More details will be released dynamically at the 7th ICADL Conference��s website: http://icadl2004.sjtu.edu.cn. And much more will be given around March. Please contact us if you have any questions: Mr. Yuan Guojing, Ms. Guojing Email: icadl2004(a)mail.lib.sjtu.edu.cn Tel.: +86-21-62933229 Fax: +86-21-62820892 The Organization Committee of the 7th ICADL Conference Shanghai, P.R. China

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Re: [LIS-Forum] LIBRARY SERVICES ON MOBILE PHONES WE ARE READY?
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Dear professionals, Have a good day and in respose to the mail of Mr. Mallikarjuan, In fact, Learning Resource Centre Beams Education Centre, Dubai has effectively utilizing the SMS of cellular phones/ mobile for providing readyreference services. The Learning Resource centres users are also uses the SMS of cellular phone for their general enquiry, reservation, renewals, and other purposes. The same system is introduce by self, in 2002 November itself. Regards Vijayakumar M

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Links related ETDs
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:42:54 -0500 From: Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur <rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in> Apologies for cross posting. Please feel free in forwarding this to others. Hi! Some of you who might be thinking to start / or working on ETDs in India, following links may be of some help: http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004/ http://etdguide.org/ http://www.ndltd.org/talks/index.htm http://www.ndltd.org/pubs/index.htm http://www.vtls.com/ndltd/ http://www.ndltd.org/etd_conf/ETD2003tutorial05.ppt http://www.ndltd.org/union.html http://www.ndltd.org/research.html http://www.ndltd.org/community.html http://www.unesco.org.uy/eventos/evento2000-10-20-0.html http://www.theses.org/ http://www.dissertation.com/library_frame.php http://www.diplomica.com/ http://tennessee.cc.vt.edu/~lming/cgi-bin/ODL/nm-ui/members/index.htm http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/home/index.html http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/g/r/graduate/public/html/etd/ http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway http://zeeb.library.cmu.edu/OLC/fall2001.html#ETD http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/ http://www.dlib.vt.edu http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/extended/indest-etd.pdf http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ETD/directory/browse.html http://www.rgs.uky.edu/gs/ETDintro.html http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/support/help/glossary/glossary.htm http://etdguide.org/content/1.2.htm http://www.etd.psu.edu/gen_info.html Best, Ramesh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Program)( Till February 2004) Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science 660 McBryde Hall, M/C 0106 Blacksburg, VA 24061 +1-540-231-3615

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RSS feeds
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:22:00 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: This has nothing to do with RSS connected with BJP. I desire to bring to your attention about RSS feeds available from websites. Recently a Technology called RSS (=Really Simple Syndication) is available. Many websites offering news items also provide what is called an RSS feed. New Indian Express is the first such Indian Newspaper to offer RSS feeds. RSS feed is usually an xml file. This file has an URL (address of the page on the website). For instance the RSS feed for Indian Express is available at: http://www.xpressindia.com/syndications/ei.xml At the end-user's PC, one has to install a small program generally called RSS Aggregator. Many RSS readers (aggregators) are available for free download and Amphetadesk is one of them. After installing Amphetadesk and invoking it, one has to enter the URL of the XML page in this program. Thereafter, Amphetadesk automatically downloads frequently the XML page (RSS feed). We will then get on our desktop the latest news brought to us regularly every three hours. If we have entered five news channels then we would have latest news from five different channels. All of them have the URL of the actual news item plus a short abstract. In this way one can get himself updated easily with latest news from different newspapers (or web resources or portals) of his choice. Several sites give directories of available RSS feeds. www.feedster.com is such a directory. www.disobey.com the site that provides Amphetadesk also gives its own long list of several thousand RSS feeds. RSS feeds are also called Channels. There is a provision to display constantly updated news pages on your website using this technology. There are easy methods of providing such 'automatically updated' news services on your website too using this pull technology: html code to be inserted in your html page are shown in concerned websites offering RSS feeds. I suggest librarians to make use of this technology to offer better value added services to their clients. *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 HAVE YOU TRIED OUR TRANSLATION SERVICES?

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Thomas Parry Library - E- Journals in L I Science
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:53:38 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] MALLIKARJUNA, C" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear professional Information on and links to more than 500 ejournals on LIS Annotated list of electronic journals in librarianship and information science. The list will be of use to anyone exploring electronic journals in the LIS field. Titles are listed alphabetically and for each entry a page of relevant information is provided, the accuracy and currency of links and information are checked on a monthly basis. URL:http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/tpl/ejlib/ C.MALLIKARJUNA, ISEC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI BANGALORE-560 079. hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in

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ELPUB2004 Electronic Publishing conference (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:01:46 +0100 From: Marian Polus <marian.polus(a)esat.kuleuven.ac.be> Dear Sirs, Could you forward the following message to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, please? Thank you in advance. Regards, Marian Polus -------------------- http://www.elpub.net -------------------- Dear specialists and professionals in electronic publishing, On behalf of the Organising committee, I have the pleasure inviting you to participate as a contributor to the 8th ELPUB conference that will be hosted in June 2004 by the Department of Information Science at the University of Brasilia (West-central Brazil). This 8th ELPUB conference will keep the tradition of previous ELPUB conferences, which is to bring together researchers, developers, users and all those interested on issues regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts. Conference themes include the human, cultural, economic, social, scientific, technological, legal, commercial and other relevant aspects of Electronic Publishing. Elpub 2004 offers also a variety of activities, such as workshops, tutorials, panel debates etc. Details can be found on the above mentioned website. A first call for papers was sent out some time ago, but it might not have reached you. But now has come the moment I would like you to take a few minutes to consider submitting a paper, a tutorial theme, a poster or a demonstration. The deadline for abstracts, that have to be introduced electronically via a conference website submission page, has been fixed on January 31, 2004. The 2nd call for papers with all details has been attached to this email. If for any reason this attachment is not accessible or not present anymore, you will find it also at: http://www.docarch.be/engelen/Call_2_for_papers_Elpub2004.pdf Welcome to ELPUB2004, Jan Engelen ELPUB2004 Programme Chair ** With my apologies for possible double postings ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Jan Engelen | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | mailto:Jan.Engelen@kuleuven.ac.be Dept. Electrotechniek - ESAT | Onderzoeksgroep Documentarchitecturen | tel. : +32 (0)16 32 11 23 Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 | B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven | fax. : +32 (0)16 32 19 86 BELGIUM | or +32 (0)16 23 74 31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marian Polus - Project Assistant K.U.Leuven - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Heverlee (Belgium) tel: +32 16 32 18 65 fax: +32 16 32 85 39 http://www.docarch.be

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Fw: survey of aggregators
by Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

----- Original Message ----- From: "Astronomy Library" <astlibr(a)lepus.astro.utoronto.ca> To: <SLA-ST(a)welles.library.nwu.edu>; <SLAPAM-L(a)lists.yale.edu> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 2:27 PM Subject: survey of aggregators > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > --forwarded by M. Cummins UofToronto Astronomy and Astrophysics Library --- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > > >From owner-sts-l(a)listserv.utk.edu Fri Jan 16 12:58:31 2004 > Sender: "STS-L (Science and Technology Section, ACRL)" > > Subject: Announcing "A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services" > > ***Cross-posted announcement -- apologies for duplication*** > > "A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services." > By Martha L. Brogan. > Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources: > Washington DC, December 2003. > > http://www.diglib.org/pubs/brogan/ > [And available in print, 1st quarter 2004] > > This 100-page report, commissioned by the DLF, provides an overview of a > diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, > organizes them into functional clusters, and then evaluates them more fully > from the perspective of an informed user. Most of the services under review > rely wholly or partially on the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting of the Open > Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH). Each service is annotated with its > organizational affiliation, subject coverage, function, audience, status, > and size. Critical issues surrounding each of these elements are presented > in order to provide the reader with an appreciation of the nuances inherent > in seemingly straightforward factual information, such as "audience" or > "size." > > David Seaman > Executive Director, Digital Library Federation > Council on Library and Information Resources > 1755 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 500 > Washington, DC 20036 > tel: 202-939-4762 > fax: 202-939-4765 > e-mail: dseaman(a)clir.org > web: http://www.diglib.org/ >

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SMS Development Tools
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 05:36:18 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] MALLIKARJUNA, C" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals: SMS Development Tools: Short Message Service, A text message service that enables short messages of generally no more than 140-160 characters in length to be sent and transmitted from pc to a cellphone and other digital-based mobile communications systems. for these tools visit this web page: http://www.funsms.net/sms_development_tools.htm This Section is edited and maintained by Dr. Subrahmanyam Karuturi ( ksm(a)funSMS.net ) C.MALLIKARJUNA, ISEC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI BANGALORE-560 079. hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Office:080+3215468 EXT-301 Mobile:080+36757228

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Change in URL for Web Enhanced Training Programme on WINISIS (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:13:03 +0000 From: Uma Kanjilal <uma_kanjilal(a)hotmail.com> Dear Member, With reference to the announcement on Web enhanced training programme on WINISIS, please note the change in the URL. The URL for the programme is http://winisis.ignou.ac.in . This message may kindly be posted at the earliest. Regards, Uma Kanjilal ======================================================== Dr. (Ms) Uma Kanjilal Reader, Faculty of Library & Information Science Indira Gandhi National Open University ( IGNOU) New Delhi 110 067 E-mail:uma_kanjilal@hotmail.com ======================================================== ________________________________________________________________________________ Send DD, pay no commission. Click here.

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:30:08 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a posting to the GKD97 list I sent in early 1997. I wonder if things have cahnged much. Regards. Arun Dear GKD97 members: Mr P Jayarajan, British Council Division, British High Commission, New Delhi, asked me to give my comments on the impact of electronic publishing on the developing countries, for inclusion in a discussion at a forthcoming World Bank Conference. I thought many members of this forum might be interested in this question (even if they might not care for my views on it!). I reproduce my letter to Jayarajan. Your comments are welcome. My address: <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Dear Jay: Here are some random thoughts on Electronic Publishing and its impact on the developing countries. As bullet points, of course! * The transition to electronic publishing from print will widen the gap between the advanced countries and the developing countries, especially in the field of production and dissemination of knowledge. * Many developing countries, especially those with large populations, do not have the necessary infrastructure (computer terminals, networks, communication channels, bandwidth, etc.) and will take a long time to have it in place to be able to take part as equal partners in the worldwide enterprise of knowledge production and exchange. * While communication revolution is perceived as a liberating influence, what is more likely to happen is that in many developing countries (including India, I am afraid) scientists and scholars will be among the last to be reached by the revolution and therefore the relative disadvantage they now suffer from (in the matter of access to information and knowledge) will only increase. The number of institutions and individual scholars having access to Email and Internet in developing countries and the rate at which this access has grown over time will support this contention. * The transition to electronic publishing will make it much easier for scientists and scholars in the advanced countries to interact with colleagues and invisible colleges, and most Third World scientists and scholars are most likely to be excluded from this "worldwide" network, not because they are intellectually inferior but because they do not have the technological backup. The already existing gaps in the levels of science and technology performed in the advanced and the poorer countries will be widened further and this could lead to increased levels of brain drain and dependence on foreign aid of a different kind (knowledge imperialism). * Mastery of technology has led the West to dominate the world to such an extent that even in areas where the traditional societies of the poorer countries had a lead of millennia (such as ethnobotany and plant-based medicine), now it is the West which is exploiting this knowledge base and converting it into products (of modern medicine) and profits. What has happened in the area of plants and medicine will happen with even greater vigour in the area of knowledge production and dissemination (including publishing and patenting). * Most journals and databases are produced in the advanced countries and developing country scientists read articles written by their own countrymen in expensive journals produced by commercial publishers in the West and gain access to the same articles through exhorbitatntly priced secondary services produced in the West! Electronic publishing and online access will only make the situation even worse. * There is another very serious problem. The traditional knowledge systems, because their practitioners are not well-versed in electronic communication, will die out very soon. This has already happened, even before the arrival of electronic publishing, thanks to the homogenising effect of western cultures which made many facets of other cultures extinct. -----------------------

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