READIT - 2009 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
READIT - 2009 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
READIT - 2009 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
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Proceedings of <strong>READIT</strong>-<strong>2009</strong>, Kalpakkam - 603 102, 29-30 Dec <strong>2009</strong><br />
OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS<br />
Library 2.0 is an umbrella term <strong>for</strong> innovations in library the library interface with<br />
library clients through the new Web 2.0 mediums of social networking, social media and<br />
mash-ups. Where large library institutions face considerable inertia in implementing such<br />
innovations in the context of their existing proprietary systems, OSS developers can move<br />
quickly to integrate such innovations in their own systems. There are many open source<br />
digital library softwares, which are now becoming user interactive.<br />
OPEN SOURCE DIGITAL LIBRARY SOFTWARES<br />
DSpace – Dspace is a tool designed to allow institutions, such a libraries to collect, archive,<br />
index and disseminate the scholarly and intellectual ef<strong>for</strong>ts of a community. Written by MIT,<br />
it is primarily used to capture bibliographic in<strong>for</strong>mation describing articles, papers, theses,<br />
and dissertations. DSpace indexed the content and provide a way to link to the originals. It<br />
plays well with open standards such as XML and OAI-PMH. (ww.dpace.org)<br />
GREENSTONE – Greenstone is a tool <strong>for</strong> creating and managing digital library collections.<br />
It provides the means to easily create searchable and browsable interfaces to digital library<br />
(DL) collections via the Web. It enables implementers to save their collection in CDs. Thus<br />
the DL collections are distributed to people with poor internet access. Greenstone creates<br />
collections from “standard” file <strong>for</strong>mats such as HTML files, email messages, PDF<br />
documents, JPED and GIF images, Word documents as well as plain text files.<br />
(www.greenstone.org)<br />
EPRINTS ARCHIVE SOFTWARE (EAS) – Eprints is generic archive software under<br />
development by the University of Southampton. It is intended to create a highly configurable<br />
web-based archive. EPrints primary goal is to be set up an open archive <strong>for</strong> research papers,<br />
but is could be easily used <strong>for</strong> other things such as images, research data and audio archives –<br />
anything that can be stored digitally by making changes in configuration.<br />
MARC:RECORD – The Perl module is the tool to use when reading and writing MARC<br />
records. It is very well supported on the Perl4Lib mailing list and a testament to the module’s<br />
abilities is its incorporation into things like Koha and Net:Z39.50.<br />
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