Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:37:24 +0530
From: "Byrappa, Ananda (GE, Research)"
Dear Rajasekharan,
NCSI-Net (Association of NCSI Staff and Students) is glad to hear that
the recently held TBR memorial seminar on Web Content Management (Drupal
focused) was useful to you.
Many LIS professionals may be interested in knowing how NCSI net is
doing these hands-on and effective one day programmes since last 4
years. Objective of these seminars are to enable budding LIS
professionals to use the tools and resources (mainly open source) and
motivate them to make a better impact at the organization where they
work. We choose workshop/seminar resource persons from preferably from
NCSI Net, working across the industry. This helps us to make these
programmes truly practical and one or two case studies will add to the
impact. The programme will also have a session dealing with career
building strategies and job opportunities for LIS professionals - which
has been greatly appreciated by the participants.
Seminar presentations and summary can be accessed from the NCSI-Net
portal: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/
http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/
Regards,
Anand
Ananda T.Byrappa
Manager, Whitney Knowledge Centre
GE India Technology Centre
122, EPIP, Phase 2, Whitefield Road,
Bangalore - 560066, INDIA
Phone: 91-80-25032618
Fax: 91-80-28412114
email: ananda.byrappa@ge.com
From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
[mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Rajan
Sent: 27 November 2008 18:05
To: Lis Forum
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Self learning of Drupal, Wiki Moodle etc
Dear All,
The recent Drupal workshop at NCSI was a meaningful attempt to
capacitate librarians in opening new ways of information dissemination
with a good content management tool.
Libraries or institutions having local area network (LAN) can think of
using Drupal (or Joomla or similar one) for creating an intranet website
that provides information content to the institutional users through a
website- like a gateway. Drupal requires apache, mysql & php software -
all installed and configured in the computer. The configuration of those
software may fail at times. So the easier option for a beginner is to
use Xampp software that includes all the three software. So any beginner
who is interested to learn Drupal can do so by installing it even in a
client computer by using Xampp. The advantage of the content Management
System is that we can have local language content and can make search
/retrieval, if the information is in Unicode font.
By using the same Xampp installation, one can install Wiki software also
in the same computer and can develop an internal Wikipedia for creation
of frequently used local content for internal users. Even reading
materials on key topics can be made available in LAN by using internal
Wiki. Media Wiki is a reasonable choice among a wide range of Wiki
software available for download. Having an internal Wiki may help the
users in learning the process of editing the content in Wikipedia. So
the creative users may eventually turn themselves as contributors of
Wikipedia, the fastest growing segment in the digital world.
Librarians, thus, can have partnership in building the knowledge
repository by showing the users a method to build digital knowledge
resource.
Moodle is an E-Course Management software one can install in the same
computer by using the same Xampp installation. Libraries can use it for
offering compensatory or additional courses on topics of special
interest among the users, with the help of library friendly academics or
library professionals themselves.
The screenshots of Moodle installation on Windows is available at
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Windows_installation_using_XAMPP
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Windows_installation_using_XAMPP
Installation on Linux is also similar.
The installation of Drupal or Wiki can be done in the similar manner.
Open Journal System is yet another similar tool, the librarians should
look into.
Exploring all these tools will be a way ahead in empowerment in this
bewildering digital world.
Regards,
K Rajasekharan
Kerala Institute of Local Administration
Thrissur
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