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Co-Operation For Resource Sharing: Initiatives, Models and Techniques
Get PDFThe paper attempts to explain the concept of Resource
Sharing, its growing importance in today’s life and its
changing role, the various initiatives taken for sharing the
resources, various models at different levels and techniques
used for resource sharing. It also lays stress on the new
technology, which has changed the scenario of Resource
Sharing
Multimedia based User Orientation Program for library: A Case Study
Get PDFThe growth of information technology has brought about a
drastic change in the society. Today information is regarded as
primary and vital resource for national development. The
emergence of information society has put forth the new
challenges and responsibilities before the library. Since
libraries are the first place to welcome the forth-coming
applications of information technology, as an intermediary of
information communication, library professionals should know
the latest development and let to the users of library know also.
User orientation programs play a vital role in communication
between the library and its users. ‘Multimedia based Library
User Orientation program’ will educate or instruct the user
about the library, library techniques, sources and services
provided by the library in a more efficient and attractive way
Tools for assigning subjects to e-documents: a step towards organizing Internet resources
Get PDFIn less than a decade, the Internet has revolutionized the world of
information. There was a time when gathering a piece of
information took sometimes months, days or at least a few hours.
Today, with the Internet, large amounts of information covering a
very wide range of subjects are available in seconds – information is
just a click away! This may sound very exciting and revolutionary
but it seems that a simple but very important point is being missed.
The question we must ask ourselves at this point is “are we really
looking for “large amounts” of information covering a “wide range
of subjects?” A user under very rare circumstances seeks “very
general” information, encompassing large amounts with no specific
focus. Unfortunately, searching on the Internet in many cases results
in just this. With the rapid uncontrolled growth of information on the
net, the information seeker is lost in chaos, unable to pin pointedly
get what he wants spending minimum time and effort. Information is
hence not really “just a click away”. It is only after several clicks
(and several hours of browsing without focus) that most of us find
what we “exactly” want from the net
Electronic Journal: A new way to get Information
Get PDFToday information available is communicated by various means.
While publication is a public announcement, which helps to
communicate and transmit information, with evolution of new
technology, the way of publishing has also changed. Data
centers have changed their role and now act more as hubs for
distributed specialized repositories of different types of data and
material rather than, as in past, holding as much as possible
themselves and carrying out the integration work a their own
locations. This is due the fact that evolution of information
technology has brought major modifications to hardware and
connectivity as well as new tools for e.g. client/server, WWW
browser, etc. and concepts like hypertext/hypermedia concepts,
virtual libraries, etc. With the emergence of new technology, one
way to communicate scholarly information is ‘Electronic
Journals’
Multimedia Database: Content and Structure
Get PDFMultimedia is a combination of text, graphics, animations,
audio and video converted from different formats into digital
media. The extension of database application to handle
multimedia objects requires synchronization of multiple media
data streams. Time-related characteristics of multimedia data
should be superimposed on the existing database. This paper
will try to focus on several aspects of multimedia databases- its
need, structure and method of handling multimedia
components in order to render multimedia services to its users
Journal of Biosciences – an analysis of citation pattern
Get PDFThe study is based on 1049 citations appended to 34 research articles pertaining to issue nos. 2 to 4 of volume 20 of Journal of Biosciences of the year 2000. The authorship pattern of the citations shows that 18.68% per cent papers are single-authored, 52.71 per cent are double- and triple-authored, and the remaining 28.61 per cent are joint contributions of four or more authors. As in the case of medicine, the team size of this field is also bigger than those in the fields of chemistry and physics. As many as 25 articles of mega-authorship (i.e. contributions by ten or more authors) have been encountered in this study, and one of them was by22 authors . Of the citations .journal articles comprised 85.89 per cent, and monographs 10.1 per cent. Indian contributions comprised 5.53 per cent of the citations. Of the citing articles 30 are by Indian authors, 3 by foreign authors, and 1 (2.94%) jointly by Indian and foreign authors. Of the total citations 10.87 per cent are author self citations and 0.57 per cent are journal self citations
XML and Electronic Publishing
Get PDFXMI, is a technology recommendation of the W3C (World Wide
Web Consortium). XML is concerned with the electronic
representation of the structure and content of information. It is
a simplified subset of an ISO standard known as SGML
(Standard Generalized Markup Language). Extensible Markup
Language (EVIL,) is the key to creating markups that can be
used by any number of applications beyond the Web browser.
XML is fast gaining popularity for primary data storage and
transfer mechanism for web-based applications. It is being
used extensively in Electronic publishing, the web and for
Electronic Commerce. This paper in tends to broadly deal with
the various features of EVIL, its applications to libraries, both
traditional and digital, and challenges for creating and
managing content
Information Infrastructure and Use of Electronic Media in Indian Libraries
Get PDFThe paper covers information infrastructure available in India.. Defines electronic media as applicable for libraries. The results of a survey of Indian libraries with respect to the availability of information technology infrastructure for accessing electronic media and dissemination of information, use of computers and the extent of progress in library automation, use of CD-ROM databases and electronic/online journals. It also deals with the availability of telephone, fax, e-mail, Internet in Indian libraries as well as the perceived impact of digital libraries on library system and its function
Web of Confusion: A Word of Caution
Get PDFNo one can deny the lure of Internet as an intellectual
challenge. But the increasing dependence on the Internet
decreases our chances of maintaining privacy. The unchecked
immersion in the cyberspace would be a risky venture. Not
everybody will get benefit out of it. Some may gain even less
because of lack of adequate safeguards and infrastructure.
This article tries to understand the threats to personal data on
the World Wide Web (www) and ways to tackle it
Active Server Pages: Technology for Creating Dynamic Web Pages and Web enabled Databases
Get PDFActive Server Pages (ASP) is a server-based technology for
creating dynamic web pages. This is one of the widely used Web
server technologies for creating E-commerce sites. Library can
also use it effectively for designing web based information
services. This paper gives an overview of this technology and
the ways in which it can be used for creating a web -enabled
database