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The relevance of intellectual property rights in the digital millanium
Get PDFThe paper briefly touches about the concerns of digital technologies and the contribution of copyright-related industries to the nation’s economy. The issues and concerns of librarians in the face of the intellectual property laws like perpetual dependency; societal rights, pricing, access and ownership are highlighted. The adverse impact of IPRs acts on knowledge society and open source initiatives are discussed. Suggestions like the enactment of Consumer Rights Act and fair dealing rights in the case of digital resources, are made for the benefit of and to safeguard the interests of librarians
Copyright issues in digital enviornment
Get PDFThis paper discusses about the copyright issues in the digital environment. And it also discusses the security of information over networks.it gives a brief note about Databases and multimedia technologies also.And what all are the technologies we can use for right protection that also discusses
Context Driven Access Personalized Digital Multimedia Libraries
No full textPaper presented at the ICDL 2004 Conference hosted by TERI, New Delhi, India. (This presentation is hosted by LDL as per permission of the author, Prof. Erich J. Neuhold)Context of Information Access
Personalization in Digital Libraries; Classification of Personalization Methods;
Recommender Systems;
Next Generation Personalization;
Personal Web Context;
Personal Reference Library;
Cooperative Annotation;
Overcoming Road Blocks to Personalization
Digitization of scholarly materials in India for distance and open learners
No full textIn India, a number of national level institutions are digitizing their own information resources and varieties of rare items. The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has also established Digital Library of India Initiative. The digital libraries and institutional repositories in India include digitized collection of academic publications, like, dissertations, theses, research reports, working papers and research papers other than rare books and manuscripts. All these digitized materials can be made available and accessible to the learners of distance education. The distance and open learners should not be confined into the study materials provided to them and can explore the universe of knowledge through the digital libraries, institutional repositories and learning objects repositories available today. Present study explores the digital libraries and institutional repositories initiatives, programmes and projects in India that can be helpful to the distant and open learners. There is also need of establishing a national level learning objects repository for the benefits of open and distance learners and their tutors
Small applications, great utility and value addition: A case study of IGIDR library
Get PDFPresented at MANLIBNET National Convention held at ICSSR Western Regional Centre, Mumbai May 12-14, 2004.A housekeeping software used in the library may not provide all the modules, even if provided later involves recurring expenditure whenever it is revised. This paper, a case study of IGIDR library, discusses various applications developed by IGIDR library staff for certain routine work. Such applications even though small, have great utility and value addition. It is cost effective and helps the staff in maintaining consistency and quality
Lucene Search Engine: An Overview
No full textDspace uses the Lucene Search Engine for searching and browsing for documents. This paper describes the architecture of Lucene Search Engine and how it functions. Paper also describes browsing and searching facilities available in DSpace
Tapir for ETD Management
No full textDSpace lacks many metadata fields that are essential in Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETD) management. To address this problem, the Edinburgh University Library has developed an Add-on called The Tapir. This paper describes in detail the administration and working of Tapir