Dear Colleagues, I visited the Digital Library of India with interest. This is a wonderful work for which many organisations within India have come together. Every individual involved in the project and the organisations, the leadership - every one - needs to be congratulated. I have few suggestions for kind consideration to the concerned. Please consider these not as criticism but for improvement of the facility. 1. The home page seem to have been worked out for 17" monitors. I am using 15" monitor and unable to see what is on the right - the screen is not scrolling (after RFP in the menu). But can this page be set to fit any size screen? (I am IE user). 2. My mother tongue being Marathi, I opted for that language option and 'any centre' to search documents that have been scanned. To my surprise, I noticed that some items which are not Marathi have been listed under this output. For example, - Kind Words: For His Young Friends. William. 0. Marathi. Philosophy. 183 pgs. SEEM TO BE ENGLISH TEXT -Yadhnyawlkyasmruthi. ParchureJaganathaRaghunath. 1914. Marathi. Sanskrit. 523 pgs. SEEM TO BE IN SANSKRIT ONLY. 3. I also noticed that many titles on the first page of this search are repeating several times. Probably it is essential to check whether the records are duplicated. 4. I also think that we should not forget the accuracy of bibliographic description (metadata in new terminology). See the Author statement in the second title above. There are no spaces and punctuation between last and other names. We must follow some cataloguing standards - CCC, AACR - whatever is the decision. It can be understood if the centre is managed by non-library staff. But if I am correct, this work in Pune University is done in the library. 5. I happened to open first 35 pages of the second title (Yadhnyawlkyasmruthi - to find out whether there is any Marathi therein) and noticed a difference in time required for opening each page. Earlier pages were opened quickly whereas the subsequent pages took some time. My experience needs to be confirmed from other places and other documents. 6. For some of the books, there was no access. I presume that the meta info is available for all scanned items but the books that are open are the ones out of publisher's copyright. Rest are yet to be opened. But in such case, I propose that let there be an info that the access to this book is restricted than getting browser error on the page. 7. The software provides option to view the page in tif, html and text format. But the documents I tried open only in tif format. Same is the case with the transliterate option. I think the software should mask such features if the documents do not permit these options. Regards, -Tapaswi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Subbiah Gunasekaran" <gunasekaran_subbiah@rediffmail.com> To: <lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 3:46 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Digital Library of India Dear Members: Please see the website : Digital Library of India http://www.dli.ernet.in/ May be useful. Thanks Guna ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----

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