Indo-US Workshop on Open Digital Libraries and Interoperability

Holiday Inn, Arlington at Ballston, VA. USA, June 23-25, 2003

 

 
 
 
Organized by

 

Virginia Tech & Old Dominion University, USA and

University of Mysore & Indian Institute of Science, India

 
 
 
Supported by

 

Indo-US Science & Technology Forum and 

Virginia’s Internet Technology Innovation Center

 

Programme



Day 1 (Monday, June 23, 2003)

8:00 - 8:30 Registration
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and Introduction, E. Fox & S. Urs
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Talk - Million Books to the Web, N. Balakrishnan
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15 Increasing the Information Density in Digital Library Results, Gio Wiederhold
11:15 - 11:45 Text Metadata Mining: Exploring its potential, P. Srinivasan
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 Possition paper presentation and discussion, V.N.R. Pillai
1:30 - 2:00 Fostering DL Interoperability through Reference Models and Lightweight Protocol Networks, M. Halbert
2:00 - 2:30 Indian Digital Library in Engineering Science & Technology (INDEST) Consortium, J. Arora
2:30 - 3:00 Machine Translation, Digital Libraries, and the Computing Research Laboratory, S. Helmreich
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:45 E-Resources Subscription for the University System: An initiative from UGC&INFLIBNET, TAV. Murthy
3:45 - 4:15 Toward Global Cultural Digital Library , C. Chen
4:15 - 4:45 Improving the visibility of Indian Research: An Institutional, Open Access Publishing Model, TB. Rajashekar
4:45 - 5:15 The rise of Cultural Informatics, G. Crane



Day 2 (Tuesday June 25, 2003)


8:30 - 9:00

Enhancing Science Education through a Partnership of Digital Libraries, D. Fulker

9:00 - 9:30

Digital Libraries for Colleges , R. Srinivasan

9:30 - 10:00

The OpenURL Framework, E. Van De Velde

10:00 - 10:30

Break

10:30 - 11:30

Keynote talk III, S. Griffin & Lee Zia-NSF

11:30 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 - 1:30

Changing Role of Digital Libraries in Higher Education, S. Sadagopan

1:30 - 2:00

U.S. Government Use of the OAI-PMH , M. Nelson

2:00 - 2:30

A Publisher-independent e-Journal Archiving Model for India, N. V. Sathyanarayana

2:30 - 3:00

Building Digital Libraries for Communities using Kepler Framework , M.Zubair

3:00 - 3:15

Break

3:15 - 3:45

Digital Provide: an Indian experience, S. Singh

3:45 - 4:15

Web Services for Digital Library Construction , T. Hickey

4:15 - 4:45

Breakout Groups - Session 1: Collection, Policy, and Technology


Day 3 (Wednesday June 25, 2003)


8:00 - 8:30 Group Leader Summaries of Session 1: : Group I , Group II , and Group III
8:30 - 9:00 XML-Unicode environment for creating and accessing of Indian language theses: Vidyanidhi experiences , S. Urs
9:00 - 9:30 Event Gazetteers and Timelines for Accessing Culture and History, R. Allen
9:30 - 9:45 Break
9:45 - 11:15 Breakout Groups - Session 2 (Toward an Action Plan)
11:15 - 12:00 Group Leader Summaries of Session 2: Group I , Group II , and Group III

 

 

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