Dear Sir, Please arrange to announce the following seminar announcement for the benefit of the members : Thanks. Dr. K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, Upstairs, 42nd Cross III Block, Rajajinagar BANGALORE 560 010. Ph: 23305109 ; E-mail : srels@vsnl.com ; ************** Seminar Announcement: NATIONAL SEMINAR ON DIGITIZATION: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES. and SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT LECTURES (2004) Objectives of the Seminar : Digitization is currently a buzz word. A variety of institutions (libraries, information and documentation centres, and other corporate bodies) have been digitizing documents of various kinds (text, manuscript, and image) on different media. The purpose includes development of databases and/or archival resources, to preserve, access, retrieve and disseminate information and documents. Digitization may also form the basis for creating products such as learning/teaching packages. A variety of software and techniques are being used. Some of the efforts have been successful while others have not been so. Nevertheless, many institutions are interested in digitization, and wish to learn from the experiences of those who have already undertaken digitization. An objective of this Seminar is to bring together for exchange of ideas those with experience in and those who have plans for, digitization. Papers are invited on practical experiences and case studies on the following aspects, but not exclusive of other aspects: 1.Use and evaluation of software and techniques for digitization (text, manuscript, image, sound, etc.) 2. Special aspects of digitization for archiving and preservation. 3.Classification, cataloguing and indexing methods, tools and techniques. Standards, meta-data, authority files, vocabulary control etc. 4. Searching, retrieval, and user-interfaces. 5. Copyright and other intellectual property issues. 6. Management, economics, and costs. 7. Handling non-Roman Scripts. Authors are requested to focus on practical experiences with digitization. The final paper should not exceed 5,000 (five thousand) words or 15 pages including figures, tables and annexes. An extended abstract of about 3-4 pages of the proposed paper should be submitted in advance. It will be refereed. Authors whose proposed papers are accepted will receive guidelines for preparing the final paper and its submission. Important dates : 25 June 2004: Last date for receipt of extended abstract by the Secretariat. 5 July 2004: Authors will be informed of the acceptance or otherwise of the paper. 25 July 2004: Last date for receipt of final paper by the Secretariat. 9-11 August 2004 : Seminar and SRELS Lectures. The extended abstract may be sent to the Secretariat as an e-mail document. Contact Details : The Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross III Block, Rajajinagar Bangalore 560 010, India. Ph: (080) 23305109. E-mail: srels@vsnl.com ******** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures (2004) Natural Language Processing in Information Storage and Retrieval by Dr.K.Narayanamurthy, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
From 9-11 August at 4.30 - 6.00 p.m. each day