Dear all,
Yesterday, I too attended the NDL video conferencing at the Jamia Hamdard,
New Delhi. I felt that the project is ambitious and plausible, yet
practically impossible to achieve the target of providing one platform
access to national/international digitized scholarly resources.to users
spread in the far and wide of the country. There was talk of harvesting
metadata, and facilitating access but not the storage of the digitized
materials which is essential for any digital library worth its salt.
Moreover, if the NDL authority couldn't facilitate access to digitized
information resources from major publishers in STM under one umbrella, this
initiative will fail to elicit the kind of popular user endorsement which
it is aiming.at.
I don't know why INFLIBNET was not considered suitable for this
responsibility when it has good experience in managing knowledge consortia.
Regards,
T. Shahab
HMSCL, New Delhi
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 4:26 PM, vinod mishra
Dear All,
Today i attended Video conference on National digital library project by IIT Kharagpur. I observed the main focus of the entire project was to collect the METADATA from various sources including commercial publishers/aggregators like IEEE. I remember during trial access for some discovery tool like ebsco, ProQuest etc. concern vendors were asking for all Metadata of Catalogue, Institutional repositories and the list/detail of materials subscribed so that they can put into their server and we can search (Metadata) with more speed all in a single point but will get access to full text if we have subscribed the resources.
So our NDL ( https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/home.php?nav=search&part&koha%20automation&&page=1&part&source=%22%22 ) seems to be discovery service which will provide Metadata searching of various type of materials and referring to original source with no guarantee to access in full text just like searching on Google. A Nice document of discovery tool i found here ( http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/14487/future_library_reso... ) for your ready reference. I personally feel our NDL project should focus on those resources which is available in Open Access like thesis in Sodhganga, National digital library, ETD/IR at NITRKL etc. because Digital library demands single point solution of full text rather than referral service.
Therefore i would like to summarize that it is very good Project but should focus on full text single point solutions used by highly qualified scholars as well as a common citizen living in a remote village else i have doubt on Return on Investment (ROI)? As far as training is concern it will be good if NDL people will personally visit the site and implement the DSpace.
Thanking You.
-- With Regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 Website: http://mishravk.com/
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