Browsing CALIBER 2005:Kochi by Title
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Gupta, Indranil Das; Nessa, Najmun (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: This article looks into the unique nature of challenges and opportunities facing the Free and Opensource (F/OSS) based software localizers’ community when it comes to enabling support for Unicode-based Indic Scripts in the domain of Library and Information Science (LIS). It describes the early background of Indian language support in LIS domain in terms of technology used, and moves into the present-day scenario of Unicode and Open standard based method of universal archival and access to information repositories that modern libraries represent with their multi-media capabilities. Unicode addresses many of the problems that had plagued earlier systems which had little or no capabilities in terms of universal accessibility, it also brings its own set of problems that demand solutions – e.g. the issue of collation sequences which assume significance when looked at from the perspective of indexed search capabilities in library software. While Opensource provides an open, pro-active, collaborative platform for rapid development, it still has to answer for issues like availability of extensive Opentype fonts, collation sequences, less-than desired quality of rendering by Indic script layout engines, as well as varying levels of maturity of software components that make up the technology stack on which Indic Support enabled Library Information Systems can and are being developed. The authors will try to seek answers to these practical questions by looking into their localization experiences with Koha – the world’s first Opensource library software into Bengali (this work is being followed by Hindi localization). Inputs will also include the experiences of the team from ISI, Kolkata which is working on localizing Greenstone Digital Library (GSDL) into Bengali. The article will draw upon the experiences of F/OSS Indic Localizers’ community to see whether cross-pollination of ideas can lead us towards the goal of bridging the Digital Divide. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/506 Files in this item: 1
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Bhaskaran, R (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: This paper presents a Novel Scheme for improved Information Retrieval. The Proposed concept of this paper “FRIEND AGENT” is to enhance the need for Effective Information Retrieval. It helps in gathering the required information Independent of the location. Friend Agent offers Network Bandwidth Consumptions, Optimal routing, Security, Effective Data Transfer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1554 Files in this item: 1
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Jange, Suresh; Sherikar, Amruth; Gaddagimath, R B; Policegoudar, S B (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: Information and communication technology is transforming the society, education, business and the economy. The Library managers must understand these changes in order to position their organizations to flourish in the networked environment to provide effective information services to the users. In the Local Area Network(LAN) world, an attempt has been made to describe the network establishment in Gulbarga University Library and their experiences to enhance the techno-based services to the users. Besides, network architecture with optical fiber, hardware and software requirements for the effective implementation of LAN in the library are explained in detail. Further explores steps taken to establish CD-ROM databases; Internet Lab in accessing electronic resources under UGC Infonet, status of DBMS, library web page and Institutional productivity. Future plan for establishment of Learning Resource Centre, Provision of video camera, retrospective bar coding of collections and touch screen in the library are highlighted. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1559 Files in this item: 1
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Unknown author (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: An attempt has been made to determine the present status of familiarity and use of Digital resources. It was felt that use of digital resources is still poor among the medical students of the Universities in the developing countries. This paper presents survey to investigate the familiarity and use of Digital resources by students through online and offline Information Databases of the Central Library, “Central Library Books & Journals Database (CLBJD), and the CD-ROMs databases available in the academic libraries (MUI). The subjects of this study were the students of the Isfahan Medical University. For evaluating study questions and data collection, the questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of 250 students. The result of this survey are presented and discussed in the paper. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1579 Files in this item: 1
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Deepak P; Parameswaran, Sandeep (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: With web search getting to be more and more popular, and predictions that they would be even more popular in the coming years, given the exorbitant growth of the web in recent years, search engines, in their quest to be branded the best, have regularly been providing additional features. The users of web search interfaces are typically diverse and have wide ranging interests. This is in contrast to other application interfaces which cater to a specialized group of people. In this study, we examine the influence the interface manifestation of such features has, in their usability and effectiveness. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1542 Files in this item: 1
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Dube, Sonia; Patel, Yatrik; Murthy, T A V (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: Concept of Globalization of Software can be boom to advancement of projects related to Digital libraries and associated software. Much need is felt in the Indian context where support is to be provided for many languages to take care of diversified regional requirements and complexity of INDIC script. In this paper we have presented an approach and Implementation for creating Globalized software using UNICODE based Multilingual approach. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/505 Files in this item: 1
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Chopra, H S (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: The potentialities of information technology, together with economic concerns, have been forcing various organizations to go for digitization. This has also happened to libraries, whose primary value lies not only in their collections but also in their contribution to education through providing information service, facilities for e-learning and management of collected information, which they make easily usable and accessible to users. The design and development of web-based educational systems for people is happening in India also. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1560 Files in this item: 1
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Kamalakkannan, V; Karthikeyani, V; Krishnan, A (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: A novel routing scheme for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), which combines the ondemand routing capability of Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol with a distributed topology discovery mechanism using ant-like mobile agents is proposed in this paper. The proposed hybrid protocol reduces route discovery latency and the end-toend delay by providing high connectivity without requiring much of the scarce network capacity. On the one side the proactive routing protocols in MANETs like Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV) require to know, the topology of the entire network. Hence they are not suitable for highly dynamic networks such as MANETs, since the topology update information needs to be propagated frequently throughout the network. These frequent broadcasts limit the available network capacity for actual data communication. On the other hand, on-demand, reactive routing schemes like AODV and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), require the actual transmission of the data to be delayed until the route is discovered. Due to this long delay a pure reactive routing protocol may not be applicable for real-time data and multimedia communication. Through extensive simulations in this paper it is proved that the proposed Ant-AODV hybrid routing technique, is able to achieve reduced end-to-end delay compared to conventional ant-based and AODV routing protocols. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1576 Files in this item: 1
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Vijayakumar, J K; Khan, M T M; Murthy, T A V (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: The idea of E- Theses and Dissertations (ETD) is coming up in International scenario, which can be easily located, readily accessible and delivered over the web. This paper analyzing the opinions of selected Ph D Researchers and Guides from selected Indian Universities on Copyright and IPR issues related to ETDs. On the basis of the output, the paper suggests that Universities can start collecting e-format of theses, creating a digital archive for easy access. But in terms of access, still only a minimum majority is favoring online global access to Indian research. This may be because of Copy Right Issues, Chances of Plagiarism and Poor Quality in Research, which may be solved through policy frameworks and enhancing standards through national agencies like UGC at national level. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1584 Files in this item: 1
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Maharana, B; Choudhury, B K; Pradhan, D K; Pathy, S K (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: Institutional e-print repositories offer a strategic response to systematic problems in the existing scholarly journal system and distribution of research output by making faster communication and transformation of scholarly information over the long run. This paper introduces e-print archives in general and institutional repositories in particular. The article also discusses the purpose, architecture, elements, and issues of institutional repositories. A guideline for the design of institutional archive has also been discussed. A detailed list of major institutional archives has been presented. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1570 Files in this item: 1
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Idicula, Sumam Mary; S, David Peter (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: The goal of this work is to develop an Open Agent Architecture for Multilingual information retrieval from Relational Database. The query for information retrieval can be given in plain Hindi or Malayalam; two prominent regional languages of India. The system supports distributed processing of user requests through collaborating agents. Natural language processing techniques are used for meaning extraction from the plain query and information is given back to the user in his/ her native language. The system architecture is designed in a structured way so that it can be adapted to other regional languages of India. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/493 Files in this item: 1
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Singh, Yogendra; Murthy, T A V (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: Big deal or the consortia site licensing is the most preferred way of e-journal subscription for Indian Consortia be it INDEST or the UGC Infonet. In the big deal model all the journals published by a publisher or hosted by an aggregator on its web site are made available to the consortia members at a so called “highly reduced” price. It has been seen that the librarians throughout the world haves been raising objections to this mode since beginning. There are various concerns which have been identified such as monopoly of the publishers, use of a limited number of titles, effect of citation ranking of journals published by the small publishers and the fear of death of journals published by the developing countries. Though a number of articles have been published on this topic but most of them have been on the qualitative aspects of such deals. There are a few studies that have been conducted on quantitative aspects. In this paper a study of use of Elsevier’s ScienceDirect at IIT Roorkee has been presented which clearly shows that a very limited number of titles are frequently used in the Institute. This data clearly indicates that the Big Deal mode of subscription is not at all in the favour of the consortia. Supports an alternate model for subscription which should be based on the fixed fee access to the limited set of journals which are frequently used and pay for use for the journals which are less frequently used. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1578 Files in this item: 1
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Munshi, M Nasiruddin; Hoq, Kazi Mostak Gausul (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: Describes that both knowledge and information have become essential ingredients to change our society for future vision and shows the different approaches of knowledge management activities. Mentions the modules and processes of knowledge management and also discusses the knowledge management techniques in libraries. Shows the present status of knowledge management activities in Bangladesh libraries. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1523 Files in this item: 1
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Bhardwaj, Raj Kumar (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: India being a huge country by population has lots of court judgments available on print format to various law libraries of the country. Keeping in view the user demand into the library, this article touches the need for computerized legal text retrieval and information services for providing effective services to the users. Part of the discussion in this paper is the process of legal text retrieval that includes search file, search strategies and legal metadata, where search strategies include constructing a search request with the use of boolean operators. Problems of synonyms and homonyms are also covered in this article and in the end the legal information services in modern era are discussed which include online and offline databases. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1571 Files in this item: 1
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Francis, A T (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: The present approach towards partnership, networking, consortia and resource sharing adopted by Indian libraries need radical changes to evolve responsive partnerships in order to achieve best performance in service. The current practices of journal acquisition in most of the libraries in the colleges and universities in India are print based, in which each library is an island with regard to access of information. Moreover, there is wide disparity in the availability and use of information among different universities and colleges. But, consortia based acquisition and electronic desktop delivery of information can eliminate this gulf and increase the access and use considerably. Thus the difficulty now faced by the students, teachers and scientists in getting academic and research information will be eliminated on achieving full bibliographical control on the information documents available world over. This paper depicts the benefits of library consortia, analyses the present trend in the formation of consortia in India and suggests a new model of library consortia in which all academic institutions and government research organizations could participate. The formation of such a unique consortium under the direction and full support by the Government of India is stressed. The role that can be played by the INFLIBNET Centre of the University Grants Commission in the formation and management of such a consortium is also depicted. The areas of re-defining and re-engineering the operations of the university libraries necessitated by the consortia based electronic information and document delivery services are also discussed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1549 Files in this item: 1
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Jotwani, Daulat (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: Describes the pivotal role being played by the Central Library, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in supporting its march towards its vision. The library has applied knowledge management practices in organizing and providing the seamless access to the knowledge resources to help users, and in doing so has acquired core competencies in several areas. Discusses the critical factors for success of knowledge management in the library, viz., knowledge resources, knowledge (dissemination) services, human resources, sustained strategic commitment, and technology. The library portal has been described as the most popular form of the technology that provides networked information about library’s collections, digital resources, web sites, and services. Explains in detail the salient features of the library portal of IIT Bombay to provide single window shopping for users. Underlines the need for an aggregator to facilitate broadcast searching across databases and search engines. Concludes that the knowledge management technologies have helped the Central Library, IIT Bombay to systematically synchronize all the critical components and to serve its users more effectively and efficiently, and thus to contribute to organizational goals. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1575 Files in this item: 1
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Krishnamurthy, M (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: The explosion of information on the Internet and information technology in general has created challenges for libraries to focus on developing more effective ways to meet the information needs of users. One practical approach is through customized portals performing simultaneous database searching. This paper presents a new library portal service used at the Indian Statistical Institute Library at Bangalore (ISIB). The key feature of a library portal is to allow searching across multiple databases without having repeat search. This feature is generally referred to as meta-search, parallel search, broadcast search or federated search. Discussion also includes strategies of local customization and the impact on library management in an electronic environment. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1558 Files in this item: 1
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Hemalatha, R; Krishnan, A; Hemamathi, R (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: Correlated The discovery of association rules is an important problem in data mining. It is a two-step process consisting of finding the frequent itemsets and generating association rules from them. Most of the research attention is focused on efficient methods of finding frequent itemsets because it is computationally the most expensive step. This paper presents a new data structure and a more efficient algorithm for mining frequent itemsets from typical data sets. The improvement is achieved by scanning the database just once and by reducing item traversals within transactions. The performance comparisons of the algorithm against the fastest Apriori implementation and the recently developed H-Mine algorithm are given here. These results show that the algorithm outperforms both Apriori and H-mine on several widely used test data sets. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1536 Files in this item: 1
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Hemalatha, R; Krishnan, A; Senthamarai, C; Hemamalini, R (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: Correlated pattern mining has become increasingly important recently as an alternative or an augmentation of association rule mining. Though correlated pattern mining discloses the correlation relationships among data objects and reduces significantly the number of patterns produced by the association mining, it still generates quite a large number of patterns. This paper proposes closed correlated pattern mining to reduce the number of the correlated patterns produced without information loss. A new notion of the confidenceclosed correlated patterns is proposed first, and then an efficient algorithm is present, called CCMine, for mining those patterns. Confidence closed pattern mining reduces the number of patterns by at least an order of magnitude. It also shows that CCMine outperforms a simple method making use of the traditional closed pattern miner. Confidence-closed pattern mining is a valuable approach to condensing correlated patterns. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1535 Files in this item: 1
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Nair, Shivashankar B (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: While English has predominantly maintained its lead both as the lingua franca of the Internet and also for basic man-machine interactions, the need of the day is a system that can cater to the native by facilitating such communication in the language he is most comfortable. This calls for the realization of Multilingual Systems that can present the same information in a variety of languages. The term Multilingual Computing in the present context refers to systems that are capable of running programs that accept, process and present data in more than one natural language. The concerned language for interacting with the computer may be selected at the time of invocation or use of the program. Such multilingual systems do not fully overcome the man machine barrier. The user still has to comprehend and react to the cryptic messages presented in the language of his choice. The problem can be overcome only by the use of natural language processing systems that can translate user commands and queries in his native language to machine level commands, facilitate execution and present the results in a manner that is very akin to the responses of a human being. This paper discusses the basic issues in the formulation of such multilingual systems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/492 Files in this item: 1
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