Kumar, Rajeev(INFLIBNET Centre, February 18, 2010)
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Wiki is now-a-days widely used as the Content Management System in Web 2.0 world. Concept
of Wiki actually revolutionized the Web 2.0 world. The present paper describes the philosophy of
Wiki, one of the widely used Web Content Management System in Web 2.0 era, and various wiki
tools available as well as wiki syntax. Detailed method of installation and customization of one of the widely used wiki software MediaWiki is discussed. The software is used to install Wiki at
INFLIBNET Centre.
Chand, Prem; Rahman, Md. Ajazur; Ahmed, Jamil(INFLIBNET Centre, February 18, 2010)
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Rare documents are the primary sources of historic information. Digital preservation of rare
documents restores it from loss, decay and theft. This paper discusses all these aspects with the practical approach planned for digital preservation, collection of its rare documents, conferences,
audios of important speakers and other collections of IIAS Library. The preservation of digital information and brief installation process of Dspace are an important part of this discussion.
Presently IIAS library has opted Dspace software for the development of digital archive.
Beena, C; Padmakumar, P K(INFLIBNET Centre, February 18, 2010)
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Resource mobilization or generation is one of the global challenges in all sectors such as
business, agriculture, banking, industry etc. In recent years, higher education has undergone
important changes including the shift from teacher centered to a student centered learning, and
the replacement of the traditional practice of learning over a specified period of time by the
concept of lifelong learning. Higher education also is facing the new challenges of Information
resource mobilization and management. The advancement of Information and communication
technology (ICT) and multimedia applications has resulted in a lot of change in education like
classroom teaching, e-learning, scholarly communication, online resources etc. In the current
scenario of higher education, institutional repositories play a major role in collective resource
mobilization and resource sharing across the nation and over the globe. This paper explains how scientific community and academia in Cochin University of Science & Technology contribute for
resource mobilization through the institutional repository and how it is beneficial to the institution as well as the academic community.
Jan, Rosy; Khan, Nadim Akhtar(INFLIBNET Centre, February 18, 2010)
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Organizations across the world are ensuring their visibility online. They are making their intellectual contents available for all in the form of repositories. Creation of disciplinary repository
is an essential effort in this direction. The study takes the glimpses from open-DOAR by making
it main source from data collection to highlight the present scenario of these repositories. There are 145 English language Disciplinary repository developed so for in the orld .Continent wise analysis shows up that 53% of these are hosted by North America and least hosted by Africa
(1%). Country wise analysis highlights that US constituted 48% with 18% contribution from UK
side. India has also experimented in the field with 3% repositories. Highest present of
repositories 20% is devoted to the field of History and Archeology followed by Geography and
regional studies (16%), Computes and IT (12%) Law and Political Science and ultidisciplinary
(11%) each. Figures indicate that journal articles occupy largest space in the repository and least
space is occupied by patents.
Pradhan, Debasish; Panighahi, Pijushkanti(INFLIBNET Centre, February 18, 2010)
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This article introduces Web 1.0 and its transformation into Web 2.0. It describes impact of Web 2.0 on Library 2.0. It compares Library 1.0 with Library 2.0. It suggests that recent thinking
describing the changing Web as “Web 2.0” will have substantial implications for libraries, and
recognizes that while these implications are kept very close to the history and mission of libraries,
they still necessitate a new paradigm for librarianship. The paper points out different characteristics
of Library 2.0. It states related technologies towards implementation of Library 2.0 services.
It indicates principles Web 2.0 to the practice of librarianship, especially addressing how Web 2.0 technologies such as synchronous messaging and streaming media, blogs, wikis, social networks,
tagging, RSS feeds, and mashups might intimate changes in library service