National Seminar on Open Access to Textual and
Multimedia Content: Bridging the Digital Divide,
Dates: January 29-30, 2009
Venue: India Habitat
Centre,New Delhi.
organisers : INFLIBNET
Centre & CEC, Delhi
Objectives:
1. To review current trends and developments in
e-content management, ICT applicable to development and dissemination of
educational resources through open access
2. To examine and evaluate the existing activities,
services and functionalities of the two organisations;
3. To identify areas of activities that the two
organisations can take up in collaborative fashion with its existing
infrastructure and expertise;
4. To examine Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 tools and
technologies and examine possibilities of deploying them in
activities and services of two organizations; and
5. To explore improved means and methods of
providing textual and multimedia scholarly contents to the academic
community.
The Seminar will have evaluative presentations by
invited speakers only on the core objectives followed by panel discussion on the
subject consisting of expert panellists in media, library and information
science and ICT.
On the 2nd day of the seminar there could be Open
House discussion or the participants depending on their preferences will join
one of the 4 to 5 Work Groups to discuss various themes and sub-themes of the
seminar and evolve recommendations and follow-up actions for the two
institutions. The scope and contents of the seminar can further be expanded
depending on the feed-back received from the participants consisting of user
community in academia.
The seminar is essentially targeted to the academic
community in the universities and colleges. Individuals concerned with
application of ICTs in libraries, media centres, virtual learning, online
courseware development and dissemination would also benefit from the seminar.
The existing users of media services from CEC / EMMRC's and INFLIBNET will also
participate.
Registration Starts : November 15,2008
Prem Chand
Scientist- D
Information &
Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET)
An Inter University Centre of UGC,
Near
Gujarat University Guest House
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad
Gujarat.
India
Phone: 079-26305971, 26304695 (
Office)
070- 29096170( R)
09427001489
prem65_chand@yahoo.co.in