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Bringing information for youngsters

NEW DELHI: Aimed at examining the broad areas of how to shape the information paradigm for the new generation of the knowledge society, the third International Conference on Digital Libraries, ICDL 2010, opens at India Habitat Centre here on February 23.

The four-day conference will discuss topics including how digitisation modules can be used for converting the entire corpus of existing print and manuscript resources into digitised format, how education and libraries can be interlinked through the web world, and the latest in the semantic web in an automated sense.

Over 30 internationally celebrated experts in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are expected to participate in the conference, which is being organised jointly by Indira Gandhi National Open University and The Energy and Resources Institute.

Explaining the concept, IGNOU Pro-Vice-Chancellor and India’s leading ICT expert Prof K.R. Srivathsan said: “Today’s students do not want to go to libraries, but would love to pursue knowledge through web. So it is necessary to customise the libraries online, network all libraries of the world for all domains of knowledge for sharing, research and development. The key theory is to ensure that the value from information must link the due references to the contexts of knowledge, for example, the law consulting web. One can get relevant reports of a context automatically linked to the main context. There are other areas also such as multimedia, e-content, e-books, i-pads, which can allow you gather knowledge or enjoy reading a book through your mobile phone lying on a railway berth while travelling.”

He added that solutions to more difficult part of the challenge would be presented at the conference. “The challenge is how to make the entire corpus of knowledge accessible to students, researchers, scholars, teachers, trainers, writers, artists, evaluators and all other inquisitive members of the knowledge society,” added Prof Srivathsan.

The conference will also address copyright issues tagged to the corpus in the print and manuscript resources, and evolve regulatory policies required to handle the intellectual property rights issues.

A team of experts will constitute a recommendation committee to examine during the four days the presentations on technical problems, issues and challenges and submit recommendations to governments of India and abroad.

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