C-DAC @ Virtual Library Project
Research, academics, and general users from various sectors are today depending more on digital information. Corresponding to this demand an increasing amount of digitized data and services based on such data are being initiated.
Digital Information today serves as an important knowledge asset.
The target users of NVL will be: students, researchers, doctors, professionals, and novice users, including educationally, socially, economically, physically disadvantaged groups.
For more insight, please refer Press Release.
National Virtual Library of India: C-DAC spearheads massive virtual library project
“The idea was to have a massive online library, where resources from across fields available in all possible forms, could be collated and made available on a single platform,” said Dinesh Katre, senior director and head at C-DAC’s Human-Centred Design and Computing Group
A
limited-version launch of the NVLI portal was recently held in Mumbai.
This is the quantum of multi-lingual ‘knowledge
resources’ to be made available in the form of documents, books, images, audio,
videos and other forms in the coming months.
Spearheaded by the Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing (C-DAC), headquartered in Pune, the massive the National Virtual
Library of India (NVLI) will be an online platform covering tens and hundreds
of fields, ranging from arts, music, dance, culture, theatre, science and
technology to education, archaeology, literature, museums, cartography maps,
e-papers and manuscripts, among others. This programme is a part of the
National Mission on Libraries initiated by the National Knowledge Commission
under the Ministry of Culture. A limited-version launch of the NVLI portal by
Shravan Kumar, joint secretary in the ministry, was recently held in Mumbai.
“The idea was to have a massive online library, where
resources from across fields available in all possible forms, could be collated
and made available on a single platform,” Dinesh Katre, senior director and
head at C-DAC’s Human-Centred Design and Computing Group, told The Indian
Express. This would largely benefit researchers, students, and subject experts,
among others, who would no longer need to hunt or spend hours for reference
material in traditional library buildings. Moreover, these contents will be
preserved permanently for future requirements too, he added.
Once formally launched, this could be one of the world’s
largest virtual libraries where information on such diverse subjects are
available. Currently, Australia operates a similar facility named Treasure Trove.
The biggest advantage for India is the federal government system, where data
gathering from government-run institutions is easier. “We are also open to
contributions from private parties, but for that MoUs will be signed,” he said.
While C-DAC is working on developing softwares to
accommodate such multi-lingual data, a portal will be open for common users in
the coming months. Other partnering institutions for this project include
IIT-Mumbai, Indira Gandhi National Open
University (IGNOU), Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata, and Kalyani
University, West Bengal.
“We have nearly 40 institutions which will share their
data in whatever available formats. It will be reviewed by a team of experts
before it is classified into categories. Once launched, the platform will be
freely accessible for editing or contributions from outsiders or subject
experts, making it more user-friendly,” added Katre. C-DAC has been conducting
training workshops and seminars at these 40 institutes so that there is a
standard format for documenting the varied contents, presently measuring a few
terabytes.
Source | Indian
Express | 5th March 2018
Regards
Prof. Pralhad Jadhav
Master of Library & Information Science (NET
Qualified)
Senior Manager @ Knowledge Repository
Khaitan & Co
Twitter Handle | @Pralhad161978
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