Browsing by Author "Jolly, Surabhi"

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    The Digital Technology : Yet to Take Off
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Jolly, Surabhi
    The changing world of librarianship has paved to information highway from the traditionally embarked concept of private world. The adaptation of Information Technology (IT) for data readiness, accessibility and decision support excellence has got into the virtual environment of electronic devices in many libraries. The convergence of computer and communication technologies has linked the human minds worldwide and is trying to cut across the physical barriers. This paper points out the gradual shift-over towards digital info high-tech from traditional rudimentary adherence thus giving rise to fears into the librarians to greater extent. The fears are like phobia to computer exposures, stationary skills, regressive attitude, cognitive factors etc. These are the pressing challenges before the professionals of coming generation to enthuse with information highway. The paper also gives suggestions as to how to overcome the fear and develop knowledge based confidence for high tech absorption of Digitization breaking the barriers of distance.
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    Librarians Role In Dealing With Irs And Open Access
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2006-02-02) Sridevi, J; Jolly, Surabhi; Satyanarayana, N R; V, Shalini
    The article presents a brief overview of Open Acess, IRs and Librarians role. Universities and other institutions can have complex motives for establishing IRs; providing free access to all IR materials is often one of them. Open access initiatives may focus on technical support costs of IRs, while librarians may also be concerned with various other problems such as staff and user training and support, IR advocacy and promotion, metadata creation and maintenance, and long-term digital preservation etc. Consequently, we can see IRs as cheap to support and quick to implement, while as librarians we can take a more cautious approach that takes in to consideration other constraints and the library maxim that it is easier to establish a new service than to stop offering one. IRs are best seen as an enabling technology for open access and as their best hope for establishing permanent repositories.
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    The Semantic Web: An Overview
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2006-02-02) Jolly, Surabhi; Sredevi, J
    The World Wide Web is a universal information space. As a medium for human exchange, it is becoming mature, but we are just beginning to build a space where automated agents can contribute –just beginning to build the Semantic Web. The RDF Schema design [RDF Schema] and XML Schema design [XML Schema] began independently but now a common model is needed where they fit together as interlocking pieces of the semantic web technology.