Training and Advocacy in India

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Training and Advocacy in India

• ARD Prasad
• Documentation Research and Training Centre
• Indian Statistical Institute
• Electronic Publishing and Open Access
• Developing Countries Perspectives

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About DRTC/ISI

• ISI (Indian Statistical Institute)
• an institute of National Importance
• A Deemed University
• DRTC (Documentation Research and Training centre)
• Premier school in India in Library and
  Information Science
• Founded by Dr. S.R. Ranganathan

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Open Mantra( Mantra means Chant or Spell )

• Open Source Software
• Open Access to Information
• Open Standards
• Open Courseware

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Motto

• Use
• open source software and
• open standards
• to create
• open repositories,
• open access journals and
• open courseware
• in order to provide
• open access to information

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Open Access Encompasses

• Digital Repositories
• Institutional Repositories
• Discipline based Repositories
• Open Access Journals
• Open Courseware

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Open Access Facilities on Our Site

• LDL Librarian Digital Library
• (1st DSpace repository in India)
• https//drtc.isibang.ac.in
• SDL Search Digital Libraries (2nd in World in
  LIS)
• http//drtc.isibang.ac.in/sdl
• DLRG Digital Library User Forum
• http//drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg

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Our OA facilities

• Indo-German E-Gurukul on Digital Libraries
  (E-Learning)
• http//drtc.isibang.ac.in/mmb
• Z39.50 Server for Shared cataloguing
• http//drtc.isibang.ac.in/z39
• Persistent Handle Server
• http//drtc.isibang.ac.in9090
• DRTC Blog (provides news feeds in LIS using RSS)
• http//drtc.isibang.ac.in/blog

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DL Software Testbeds on our site

• Eprints (from University of Southampton )
• GSDL (from University of Waikato )
• Fedora (From Universities of Virginia and
  Cornell)
• CDSware (CERN Labs)
• DSpace (MIT and HP)

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Training Courses DRTC conducted

• International workshop on DSpace
• Workshop on GSDL
• Workshop on E-Learning

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Training programs we are involved
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DSpace Workshops ( in the last 3 years )

• National Science Foundation, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Osmania University, Hyderabad
• Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
• Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai
• Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
• National Institute of Radio Astrophysics, Pune

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Training courses

• Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research,
  Mumbai
• Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
• G B Pant University of Agriculture and
  Technology, Pant Nagar
• Documentation Research and Training Centre, ISI,
  Bangalore
• Indian Association of Special Libraries, Kolkata
  (Forth coming)

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DSpace in India

• GB Pant University of Agriculture Technology,
  Pant Nagar
• Indira Gandhi Institute for Development
  Research, Mumbai
• INFLIBNET, Ahemdabad
• Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
• Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikod
• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
• Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi

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DSpace in India

• Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
• Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
• LDL Librarians' Digital Library, DRTC
• National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune
• National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune
• National Institute of Oceanography, Goa
• University of Hyderabad, Hyderbad

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DSpace in India

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
• Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi
• National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
• Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
• Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati

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Institutional Repositories in India

• Repositories using
• DSpace (about 30) (3rd position in the world)
• EPrints (about 3)
• GSDL (No guess)
• Note The numbers are only a guess

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Need for Standards

• OA systems journals or repositories or
  courseware should follow standards to ensure
  inter-operability

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Standards

• Metadata Standards
• Dublin Core, SCORM
• Character Encoding standards
• Unicode
• Persistent Identifiers
• CNRI Handles
• DOI (Digital Object Identifiers)
• Harvesting Standards
• OAI-PMH

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• We are helping in initiating Institutional
  Repositories
• Helping Indian National Science Academy and
  others e-journals OAI-PMH and other standards
  compliant

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• We wish to extend our support to other Countries
  both in Training and Technology support

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Thank You

• ard_at_drtc.isibang.ac.in