Dear All, It is nice that Mr Ehtesham had gone a step ahead in the right way to train his peers. It seems that helping others to learn essential new technologies, that enable them to perform better, is an indirect way to build our professional status. Therefore I am offering my help to those who are interested in learning those technologies, in and around my state. It seems that we should develop some sort of distance training too. Sometime ago I conducted a Distance Training on Digital Archiving using Winisis/Genisis with the help of the site http://rajankila.googlepages.com/ The training went on well and a few among the 88 participants turned up initially, could learn the technology easily. Now one can create free site for digital training using Google site ( http://sites.google.com/) for the purpose. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur Ph 0487 - 2200244 + 208 ( extn) ------------------------------ Original Message Date: 26 Dec 2008 12:23:32 -0000 From: "Ehtesham" <ehte786@rediffmail.com> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] ICT - Open Source tools for Library ? Dear All, I appreciate and thankful for overwhelming response from LIS community which I got through mails and phone calls. Many members shown there interest in implementing Open Source tools and serve there user best. Yes why not! "when there is a will there is a way". I received number of mails asking for the details - (features and functionality) of the software which can be implemented for their respective libraries. The tools which I suggested in my mail are well known and are being used world wide. I will provide you the Gist and website from where you can get more details and for DSpace and OpenURL suite you can look at my project report (links are provided below). 1. DSpace: It is a well known Digital repository software developed by MIT. It has all the inbuilt features which is required for any ideal institutional repository. Details you can get from the official website of DSpace : http://www.dspace.org/ You can also look at my project report on DSpace testing of its features and functionality. Here is the link : https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/415 2. ePrints: It is a digital library software being used by IISC, IIT for there digital repository. Feature wise it is as good as DSpace. You can look for more details at http://www.eprints.org/ 3. Moodle: It is one of the best free elearning tool used across the world. At DRTC we implemented it for many organisation and conduted workshop and training session. We are using it in our company. Details you can get from : http://moodle.org 4. Joomla & Drupal: - These are free content management system tool. It can be used to manage the different forms of online collection for the organization. Go to there website where you can get more information: http://joomla.org http://drupal.org 5. WordPress : With advent of w3 and the era of web 2.0 it became very easy to become a writer and invite others to read our articles and thought. This tool is meant for such kind of idea. Get more details from http://wordpress.org 6. MediaWiki : Yes Wikipedia are there from centuries to make our self informative on some given subject. Now we are into digital age and our need and volume of information also increased. We need to have information at a single mouse click. So to fulfill all this mediawiki a free tool has been designed. To get more information look at : http://mediawiki.org. 7. OpenURL reSearcher suite (CUFTS, GODOT, DBWIZ): Developed by SFU. This is entirely a new initiative and efforts are being done. You can look at SFU websit and my project report : http://software.lib.sfu.ca/ https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/414 Hope these all will be useful to you. Please let me know if you have any query. I am always open for it and invite other peer members also to join this initiative. As Mr. K Rajasekharan mentioned this will directly or indirectly help us to improve ourselves. Ehtesham (+91)9985100322 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.