Re: [LIS-Forum] Reply to Puna Das from the Milion Books project

Dear Colleagues: In addition to what already is mentioned by Anand and Shahab, I may like to add that user interface design as a methodology and practice has evolved in last few decades and today it is an established professional practice, incorporating lessons and learning from psychology, information science, computer science. The process recommended for knowledge discovery does not conform to any established principle and practice. Clearly enough, a preliminary evaluation reveals that user interaction with the website of the project is far from satisfactory. Thanks and regards Atanu Garai On 13/11/2007, T. Shahab wrote:

The initiative taken by the various centres of CDAC regarding the million book project is no doubt commendable. But we can not call it enough on the scale of number of documents digitised so far and the quality of metadata being maintained to help in retieving materials on any specific subject, say "Biochemistry or Pharmacology or Toxicology". Moreover, it appears that only 107761 books with 32491737 pages have been so far converted into digitised format rather than one million (ie 10 lakh?) as claimed. Let us continue and improve, welcome more libraries to join in this cooperative endeavour! Regards.

-----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Subbiah Arunachalam Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:54 AM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; franc@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; thulasi@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Reply to Puna Das from the Milion Books project

Friends:

Prof. N Balakrishnan has provided a clarification to Mr Anup Kumar Das, who had posted a message to this list on 6 November (from Puna Das).

Subbiah Arunachalam

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Dear Arun: The guy is again wrong regarding the CDAC Kolkatta books and has not spent even a minute looking at the web site- Please go to www.new.dli.ernet.in and just click on the left hand side on the search button leaving all fields default- you will get the total number of books as on that date- Next if you choose scanning centre as cdac Kolkatta then you will find 3565 books totaling more than 1.6 million pages- all these are common sense and you must make sure th guys without exploring do not make unsavy comments- we are professional and have done what no one has done so far- Put one million books on the web-

Balki

Regards Balki

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Dear Balki:

There is some concern expressed about the Million Books project. I am forwarding a mail I received today. Best wishes.

Arun

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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 06:49:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Puna Das To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in CC: digilib_india@yahoogroups.com, atanu.garai@gmail.com Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] CMU Million Book Project

Dear Colleagues

Atanu wanted to point out so called 'current status' of Digital Library of India project. This is very unfortunate that the tech-savvy DLI team could not provide us latest statistics on its site. The statistics available here is more than a year old. Another point I would like to raise, DLI's Kolkata Mega Scanning Centre could not provide us access to a single book they have scanned

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using tax-payers money. To my estimate, less than 25% scanned documents are available through DLI websites. How can we please help out this overburdened project team having a blurred vision?

Thanking you

Anup Kumar Das CSSP, JNU New Delhi-110067 Email: puna_05@yahoo.co.in Ph. 011-26704400

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