“The advantage of digital libraries is that they provide access to and storage of multimedia and allow for cooperative input,” said John B. Rose of the University of Waikato at the British Council here on Saturday.

He was introducing the Greenstone Digital Library Software, an open source, multi-platform software for digitising libraries, produced in the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

The lecture is part of an UNESCO-supported initiative to popularise the free software among Asian countries, beginning with India.

The software has provision for multi-lingual interfaces and data entry. Hindi and Kannada databases, not all of which have been put online, have been created by some of the Indian users.

The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and the Archives of Indian Labour are among the institutions that have put the software to use.

A three-day program on digital libraries are organized on the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K), campus of the July 14.

The program is aimed at IT and computer professionals. The program is the knowledge and skills (design and the technical components) that computers and computer professionals, she still remembers the complex challenge of the digital library technologies.

Sessions

To experts in the fields of computing and information technology for meetings. Training and Hands-on training in famous open-source software digital library, such as “Green Stone” (developed by the University of Waikato, New Zealand), `Eprints” (developed by the University of Southampton , United Kingdom) and `DSpace” (Developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) are the characteristics of this program.

Participants will return “Green Stone” software on CD-ROM issued by the University of Waikato, New Zealand and the establishment Green Stone-based digital library in their respective institutions. Waikato University is also taking charge of the implementation workshops Hands-on session.

Education aims to transmit knowledge and make good citizens. The libraries are repositories of knowledge and form an integral part of the education system. Libraries have a long history, starting with the chain and closed access libraries of the time on hybrids today, digital libraries and virtual, that the use of new technologies for the provision of information on various services. Accordingly, librarians have also changed sides booked, with titles of protection against theft, mutilation and pilferage that information officers, sailors and cybrarians who is in the vast ocean of reading materials and are therefore Employees in the performance of their customers are always and everywhere.

With the advent of computers, the nature of libraries has changed. The computers are in libraries to process, store, retrieve and disseminate information. Accordingly, the traditional concept of the library is also redefined from a place to access the books at one of the houses of modern media such as CD-ROM, Internet and remote access on a wide range resources. The libraries now have the digital conversion process institutions. By the time a library was evaluated by their quantitative resources. Today, libraries, surrounded by a data network, a vast sea of Internet-based services. In addition, electronic resources for businesses are growing at an unprecedented pace.

Library scientists are regarded as hot spots academic institutions and must take care, education, university research and other programs. The situation in the scientific libraries of India is the same as that of scientific libraries around the world, but it takes Indian libraries provide maximum information with limited resources.

The education system in India

India has a large higher education system. The growth rate of educational institutions in India was very slowly before independence in 1947. Today, there are a total of 237 higher education institutions, including 116 general universities, 12 universities, science and technology, open universities 7, 33 institutions of higher agricultural education, 5 women or universities, universities, 1 language medical and 11 universities, 12600 colleges, training in all disciplines. The number of teachers is 3.1 million and 7.8 million students are enrolled in higher education.

University Grants Commission (UGC)

UGC, which, by act of Parliament in 1956, coordinates and oversees the higher education system in India and provides grants to universities and colleges. Two hundred and ninety four universities and institutions in the country are directly under the responsibility of the UGC. In addition, the European Union and advises governments on measures to higher education. Managers and rules of conduct general education and research on higher education. Accordingly, also provides the university library, ie set different standards for the library education, library staff, library, etc. A number of committees have been established by the ‘UGC to take charge of higher education in general and library services in the scientific libraries in particular. UGC has, furthermore, three information centres in different disciplines - the National Centre for Information Science (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, SNDT Women’s University Mumbai and the National Social Science Information Centre, University of Baroda for MS document distribution for students, teachers and researchers.

Thiruvananthapuram, June 1 - Value Proposition effective in applying information technology, as in some well-documented and successful endeavour, in Kerala, the State is the ideal solution for the housing of the proposal School of Advanced Information Systems (SAIS).

Planned autonomous inter-institutional Centre for Graduate Studies and R & D, SAIS is an institution of national importance and that the establishment under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development, a draft concept synergy and vision - 2020 submitted a statement from the Government for consideration. The Scientific Advisory Committee to the State Office is currently examining the issue.

According to Dr. K.R. Srivathsan, Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology - Kerala (IIITM - K), the author of the design, Kerala, in the past two years, designed and launched a social plan and entwicklungswirksamen some important projects such as education and grid Kerala Karshaka Information Systems, Services and Networks (KISSAN - Kerala) in the IIITM - K.

Research and development is successfully completed for the development of the next generation of information and knowledge management portals for agriculture, digital libraries, e-Publications and integration platform company. These projects have proved effective value proposition in the application of information technology relevant to the needs of the organization of computer systems, networks and knowledge management practices in organizations that wish to benefit from their IT investment.

Karshaka Information Systems and Networking Services is an innovative project by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Government of Kerala. This project for agriculture is a pilot project for implementation of information technology applications relevant information systems and networks aggregation, actions and information dissemination on the importance and interest for farmers, farm workers and officials in a certain way, that improving the overall development of agriculture and farmers in the state welfare state.

The project aims to a farmer in central integrated distributed information system for agriculture, it would be catering to the different requirements and services for farmers in the State.

The abandonment of this project is the development and implementation of computer systems, network, processes and services for agriculture in a way that leads to that: (i) improvement of farmers’ distress and improve their social security systems, (ii) increase in farm productivity and (iii) improving returns on agricultural products and derivatives.