DIGITAL PROVIDE : an Indian experience Abhijit LAHIRI & SUNDER SINGH, BG Department of Scientific & Industrial Research Ministry of Science & Technology Bhavan New Mehrauli Road NEW DELHI 110 016 alh@alpha. nic. in bgs@alpha. nic. in TFX: +91 -11 -2651 6078
Some basic figures Population 1. 027 Billion Males 53. 127 Million Females 49. 57 Million Literacy 65. 38 % Males Females 54. 16% 75. 85%
Some basic figures Allocation for S&T 25, 529 Crores Active R&D/S&T contributors 3. 08 (1999*) Crores Univ. / coll. /students/teachers 294, 13150 / 88. 21 s/4. 27 teachers Internet access/use see later slides Computer/capita 9/1000, Teledensity 6 /1000
DSIR - NISSAT q. National Information Centers q. Online Access Centers – in Bureau mode q. LIBNETS q. Software distribution q. Training q. Mapping of National S&T productivity q. Internet Use q. Digital Library Initiatives
Materials for digitization q. Books q. Back issues of journals q. Theses, technical reports q. Government Records & Publications q. Manuscripts/Oral knowledge/ancient texts q. Newspapers
Material for digitization … q. Maps, aerial photographs q. Pictures/Paintings q. Photographs q. Audio tracks q. Video tracks
Theses, Dissertations and reports VIDYANIDHI, Mysore Univ. /NISSAT URDIP / CSIR Pune IIT Chennai Digital Theses, AIP/IITC IIT Mumbai NAL Aerospace Portal
Electronic Journals q. Indian National Science Academy q. Indian Academy of Sciences q. NISCAIR/ CSIR q. J-Gate IIPL Initiative q. J-GCC ICICI KP VIC q. INDEST
Information Materials q. Standards : HAL q. Patents: PIS Nagpur q. Patents: TIFAC q. Patents: CSIR Patent Unit/NISCAIR
q. Traditional Knowledge Digital Library NISCAIR/CSIR - ISM&H q. Folk Wisdom (DSIR/NISSAT) Home medicine Techniques of water harvesting Celestial observations Weather forecasting Traditional designs
Ancient Texts q. IGNCA Portal q. NIAS Ancient Manuscripts q. National & State archives q. SPARROW
Arts, Fine Arts, Designs etc. q. Textile designs: ATIRA, IIT Delhi; q. NISTADS Baluchori Project q. Thanjavur paintings: CDAC Bangalore q. IGNCA
Maps, air photo etc. GIS database , Computer based interpretation of spectral signatures to study spatial and temporal variation of parameters Status IRS Satellite imageries, airborne MSS data in digital form 1: 250, 000 scale toposheets digitized by Survey of India Large scale city maps for Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad done; others in progress
Government, Judicial, financial documents, land records q. Ministry websites include policy and planning documents, annual reports, budget etc. q. Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu have made significant headway q. Judgments of Supreme Court and High Courts covered
q. Pictures/paintings, photographs q. Atul & Jogi Pvt. Ltd. Premier Picture Library in India q. Thanjavur paintaings: CDAC Bangalore q. Newspapers All National dailies, Regional papers eg. Times of India, Ananda Bazar & The Hindu Group, Express Group, India Today etc.
How to build on … v. How to replicate these initiatives? v. How to develop endogenous capacities? v. How to ensure compliance with standards, access, interoperability? v. How to facilitate local, national content in our scripts and languages?
Future: Actions v. Digital data preparation/capture at source v. Conversion of existing information/ materials to digital form More of the former the better
Future: Actions … v. Creation of digital resources (text, images, sound & bibliographic data) v. Identification of current and retrospective resources v. Issues related to language resources v. Standards, Technology and tools v. Skill development
v. Future: Services v. Developing services based on digital resources to cover: v. Access (including authentication, security and authorization) v. Resource discovery tools (including development of Gateways) v. Document delivery v. Technical Infrastructure
Future: Strategic Management v. Planning for the future at institutional, regional and national level in relation to policy, legal and financial issues v. Human resource development issues v. Technology development issues v. IPR Issues.
Future: Strategic Management … v. Inventory of current digital library initiatives v. Interaction meets of key role players – government as publisher, commercial publishers, authors, libraries, user institutions/users v. Skill development in academic, governmental, NGO and commercial sector
Future: Strategic Management … ©Promote publishing in digital mode in government , academic and funded institutions ©Support projects in Academic Digital publishing of journals, annual/other reports, monographs etc. ©Coordinate state and central publishing in digital mode
To sum up: v. Sporadic, partial attempts v. Over simplistic approach in Libraries vinstall these on an Intranet v. Network the systems for an enabling environment vsensitize on all the ramifications of the concept of digital library
To sum up. . . v. Encourage significant efforts on ETDs and reports v. Facilitate Transfer of skills/knowhow v. Promote preparation of theses and reports in e-format at the point of generation v. Emphasize documentation of heritage materials v. Support publication of scholarly periodicals in e-format
To sum up. . . Host on the web Books outside copyright and those of the Indian maestros q. Government agencies should publish in digital form to pave way for a digital environment q. National agencies like NISSAT should undertake a systematic plan of action for training of potential publishers of digital materials and for user education q
To sum up. . . q Today, it seems only a hardwaresoftware, network game only… q. Ensure Service focus in digital libraries q. Level playing field for both publishers and Users
Internet awareness/Usage /Age Group Age Gr. Households Aware % of awareness Users % of popln. users to aware 43429 - 27895 - - 12 -14 yrs 2584 5. 94 134 4. 82 5. 2 15 -19 yrs 7638 17. 58 516 18. 53 6. 8 20 -24 yrs 8130 1872 770 27. 64 9. 5 25 -34 yrs 10510 24. 20 797 28. 65 7. 6 35 -44 yrs 7030 16. 19 344 12. 38 4. 9 45+ 7542 17. 37 221 7. 93 2. 9
Purpose/Usage/Occupation Purpose/Usage/ occupation Industry/Business Households E- Busin Entermail ess Inf. tain. % % % Others % 170 46. 5 53. 5 24. 7 14. 1 Self employed 67 68. 7 49. 3 17. 9 20. 9 Sr Executives 230 58. 3 50. 0 19. 6 18. 7 Jr Executives 303 62. 0 47. 5 16. 2 17. 2 Petty Traders 87 46. 0 43. 7 24. 1 17. 2 Clerks/Servicemen 478 50. 4 28. 0 28. 9 22. 8 Skilled/unskilled 119 54. 6 22. 7 26. 9 20. 2 1110 40. 2 5. 7 42. 6 33. 6 218 63. 8 3. 2 36. 2 15. 1 Students Non working/Retired
Purpose of Usage Purpose All West South North East Households (‘ 000) 2782 1012 873 668 229 E-mail 49. 5 56. 4 52. 16 38. 79 34. 94 Business Info 23. 48 26. 3 21. 31 22. 82 21. 26 Entertainment 31. 99 30. 6 30. 47 36. 84 29. 90 Others 24. 67 21. 8 25. 51 25. 0 33. 01
Awareness & Usage of Internet Education Aware (%) Users (%) Total (%) Illiterate 110 (0. 25) 0 0 204 (7. 32) 2. 6 961 (34. 55) 4. 8 1159 (45. 65) 458 (16. 48) 8. 7 Below SSC 7936 (18. 25) SSC (not grad. ) 19944 (45. 92) Graduate / PG 13280 (30. 58) Grad. / PG 2160 (4. 97) Professional Households 43429 (‘ 000) 2782 21. 2
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New Information Initiatives To develop appropriate endogenous information capacities to support S&T activities To support the production of local content and foster the available indigenous knowledge
New Information Initiatives To promote information and knowledge networking at local, regional and national levels to facilitate flow and sharing of information resources To map the national S&T productivity in relation to the international trend
New Information Initiatives To support education, training and R&D in digital content development and utilization To promote national and international cooperation in related areas
New Information Initiatives Development of endogenous capacities § Promotion of content development § Intensive training courses § Experiments on content development
New Information Initiatives Development of local content and indigenous knowledgebase National websites / servers § VIGYAN SERVER, IPR biotechnology, Indian IPR, Indian tea, Indian ocean & aquatic sciences § Indian digital library of theses & dissertations
New Information Initiatives Documentation of traditional knowledge & folk wisdom Home medicine techniques of water harvesting celestial observations weather forecasting traditional designs
New Information Initiatives v. Information for community – digital provide and opportunities v. Knowledge Net v. Virtual Information Systems
New Information Initiatives Virtual information systems… § Applied to variety of situations in both academic and R&D situations § Connect information resource base of a set of institutions § Virtual laboratory through networking several laboratories § Virtual teaching facilities
New Information Initiatives § Electronic publishing of selected Indian S&T materials § Publish select Indian journals on CDROM and make worldwide pitch to market them § Create a website to host electronic versions of select journals § Host on the web the back issues of journals with high impact factor
New Information Initiatives q. Open archive initiatives q. Mapping of national S&T productivity q. Education, training and R&D q. International activities
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