INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories

(27.7.2004 to 29.7.2004)

Workshop Programme and Presentations


Organized and Conducted by:

National Centre for Science Information (NCSI)
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560 012 (India)
http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/

In association with:

Digital Library Research Group
Computer Science Department
Old Dominion University
Virginia, USA
http://dlib.cs.odu.edu/

Sponsored by:

INDEST Consortium
An MHRD Supported Programme
Government of India, New Delhi
http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/


Click on the presentation/ lab title link to open the related file. Unless mentioned, most of the material is in PDF format. Some of the missing presentations will be added soon.

Day 1 (27.7.2004)

08.45 - 09.30 - Registration
09.30 - 10.15 - Inauguration (by Prof. R.S. Sirohi, Director, IIT, Delhi and Chairman, INDEST National Steering Committee.
Chief Guest: Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, Director, IISc.)
10.15 - 10.45 - Tea
10.45 - 11.00 - Self introductions by the participants
11.00 - 13.00 - Open Archives Initiative and Inter-Operable Digital Libraries (Prof. Mohammad Zubair, Old Dominion University, USA)
13.00 - 13.45 - Lunch
13.45 - 15.15 - Institutional Repository Software: Their Features and Functionality (Dr. T.B. Rajashekar, NCSI, IISc)
15.15 - 15.30 - Tea
15.30 - 17.00 - EPrints software and IISc E-Print archive (Mr. Francis Jayakanth, NCSI, IISc)

Day 2 (28.7.2004)

09.30 - 09.45 - Workstation allotment, intro to the arrangements and contents of workshop CD-ROM
09.45 - 11.30 - Installation of EPrints software and test archive set up (Mr. Filbert Minj, NCSI, IISc)
11.30 - 11.45 - Tea
11.45 - 13.00 - Lab: EPrints installation and test archive set up (Guided by Mr. Filbert Minj, NCSI, IISc)
13.00 - 13.45 - Lunch
13.45 - 15.30 - Lab: Submission, approval, search and browse (Guided by Mr. Francis Jayakanth, NCSI, IISc)
15.30 - 15.45 - Tea
15.45 - 17.00 - Metadata harvesting based on text mining approaches (Prof. Mathew Palakal, Indiana University Purdue University, USA)

Day 3 (29.7.2004)

09.30 - 11.00 - EPrints: Configuration and customization (Mr. Aneesh Joy, NCSI, IISc)
11.00 - 11.15 - Tea
11.15 - 13.00 - Lab: EPrints: Configuration and customization (Guided by Mr. Aneesh Joy, NCSI, IISc)
13.00 - 13.45 - Lunch
13.45 - 15.30 - EPrints installation: A revisit / OAI in Action (Mr. Filbert Minj, NCSI, IISc)
15.30 - 15.45 - Tea
15.45 - 17.00 - Policies, content enrichment, advocacy (Dr. T.B. Rajashekar, NCSI, IISc)
17.00 - 18.00 - Valedictory Session (Presided by Prof. P. Balaram, Chairman, Division of Biological Sciences, IISc, and Editor, Current Science, Indian Academy of Sciences)

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