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Content Development: Where Do We Go Wrong?
Get PDFThe middle to the late 90s saw a rise in the power of the
Internet. The beginning of this century has witnessed a sudden
downfall in its potency as a commercial force. The problem lies
not only in business and financing models but also website
content. The time has come for some introspection on our Web
world — primarily websites and try to analyze the reasons for
the changed situation — figure out where we went wrong and
what is perhaps needed to be set right. This paper focuses on
Web content development, with inclination to commercially
driven websites and explains its importance to the Internet
industry
Automation of A.T.E.C Central Library : A Case Study
Get PDFThis paper is a case study of automation undertaken at ATEC entral library. The paper describes in detail the development of automation procedures and applied tools
Thesaurus in an Automated Information Retrieval System
Get PDFThe world of information retrieval today has changed dramatically, with immense increase in the availability of searchable full text and
the increasing availability of powerful search engines. Still search engines retrieve more junk than pinpointed information necessitating
the use of more efficient retrieval tools. Hence it is reasonable to ask whether there is any place left for thesauri in the new information
retrieval environment. Meanwhile the use of machine-aided or even automatic indexing has also been raising a demand for the use of thesauri. A thesaurus is a tool designed to aid users in finding their way around the vocabulary of a database. In addition to its traditional use as an authority for the terms used in indexing the
database it offers reminders to terms the user might not even have considered. In the modern context a thesaurus could be extremely useful to provide controlled access to large collections of text and unstructured information, and to help search engines to have more precision. Intelligent retrieval systems, which integrate statistical and semantic information to retrieve more useful results, could make use of an extensive thesaurus of word types and lationships.
Producers who are concerned with providing ndardized subject access to their resources can also make use of thesauri to determine the content of the element(s) allocated to subject metadata. Certain fundamental problems are observed in the basic design of thesauri
that make them less than optimally useful for more powerful retrieval scenarios. Still there are both pragmatic and philosophical reasons to be positive about the need for continued use of thesauri. And it is hoped that controlled vocabularies will be the foundation of next-generation web sites and Intranets
Digitization of Blowup Images of Contemporary Helicopters: A Case Study
Get PDFThe process of designing aircraft requires information in the
form of images and blown-up reproductions of their parts.
There are a lot of images of various parts available, but they
require to be classified and encoded according to model,
system and component. This has been done in a project by the
Information Centre, RWR and DC, HAL, Bangalore by designing
a user front end in Visual Basic and creating the database of
images using MS Access as backend. Each component is given
a code indicating the helicopter, system and a unique 3-digit
number for the component. The design scientist queries the
database based on chosen criteria and retrieve the required
blowup image
Issues and Challenges in Management of Information Resources
Get PDFInformation is an important resource. In many ways
information management is different from a traditional library
administration. Mostly it involves management of change and
management of electronic sources. Issues and challenges
related to information management are discussed in this paper
Tracing Developments in Information Resource Management
Get PDFThis paper discusses the concept behind Information Resource
Management from its inception. It traces the developments in
the area and compares the activities to those discussed under
Knowledge Management. It points out the various tools used
in todayâs Internet environment for resource management. Web
indexing considered as a tool for effective resource
management on the web is also discussed
Information Resource Management on Tea Contributions of Tocklai: A Case Study
Get PDFTraces the history of tea in India and place of Tocklai
Experimental Station in tea research and development.
Discusses Tocklai's contributions in Information Resources
Management (IRM) from two perspectives; Information
Resources External) - IRE and Information Resources
(Internal) - IRI. Identifies documentary resources received by
Tocklai from other tea growing countries , research institutes
as 'External' resources and those generated within Tocklai as
'Internal', systematically collected , collated, classified and
processed into a number of Bibliographic Databases.
Discusses in brief the products of IRM: TSDB [ Tea Science
Data Base], DTSDB [Documentation in Tea Science Data
Base], TBDB [Tea Books Data Base ], DDTSDB [ Doctoral
Dissertations in Tea Science Data Base], TPDB [Tea Patents Data Base], TStDB [Tea Standards Data Base]. Describes the internal resources generated by Tocklai and how the information is processed into e-commodity. Briefly mentions the initiatives taken in On-Line IRM, INTERNET surfing and lists a few INTERNET resources that are frequently visited by Tocklai scientists
Security Policies and Procedures for Internet Resources
Get PDFThe aim of information resource management is to effectively
provide information to the user community for research,
education and learning and administrative purposes. There are
certain key issues to be taken care of while providing any kind
of service like cost effectiveness, network access issues,
malicious virus threats and other security issues. The use of
and the adherence to certain policies and procedures would
make the service more efficient and effective in this context. .
Security policies are of immense importance in the Internet
environment and the implementation of proper policies can
resist virus attacks, employee abuse and theft/destruction. An
automated procedure which observes certain significant
features like tidiness of HTML formatting, standard
conformance, document structure, and metadata elements can
help prevent these kinds of problems. Automatic mechanisms
could also track some characteristics over time like HTTP
response code, response time, page changes, and page
relocation and thus could preserve the integrity and quality of
the service
E-learning: A Myth or Reality
Get PDFE-learning is a means of becoming literate, involving new
mechanisms for communication, such as: computer networks,
multimedia, content portals, search engines, electronic
libraries, distance learning, and web-enabled classrooms.
Different web based applications (e.g. email, real-time
conference, WebCam) are being used as important tools in the
process of e-learning. In India situation is far from reality but
does not seem to be impossible to achieve the goal of elearning.
In this paper, the examples are taken from the point
of the view of Library and Information Science