title: Establishment of a digital library to support agricultural research, education and extension in India
creator: Raman Nair, R.
subject: IK. Design, development, implementation and maintenance
subject: HP. e-resources.
subject: DH. Special libraries.
subject: HI. Electronic Media.
subject: DI. Science libraries.
subject: JG. Digitization.
description: Twenty-four Universities and more than three hundred specialized institutions and  non governmental organizations are engaged in agricultural research, education, extension, and developmental activities in India. Altogether they generate a vast ocean of information which consists of about 400 doctoral thesis, 12000 papers and 2500 books, journals, audio visual productions and other documents in a year.  But even though sufficient computer and communication systems are available information is not shared or properly organized and disseminated within these institutions. This study examines the problems of information/knowledge transfer in agricultural sector in India and how the already implemented technological advances in hardware, data compression procedures and software implementation can be utilized to pool the information resources and to develop a national level Digital Library on Agriculture.  The plan of the library consisting of  a National Centre of Digitised documents and a site connected to other related sites and databases, the web server and other softwares involved, the type of collections/documents to be digitised, the proper utilisation of the existing network and communication links to make it accessible are discussed.  Minimum standards for computation facilities and communication links essential at the participating/contributing institutes are suggested.  The paper also stresses the role of Digital Librarian in massive digitalization, storage, indexing, access search, coordination and management of universal information.  How far such an Electronic Library can help to attain efficient operation of  fully integrated management of agricultural systems is pointed out.
publisher: Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre
date: 1998
type: Conference Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://eprints.rclis.org/6111/1/Ifd.pdf
identifier: Raman Nair, R. Establishment of a digital library to support agricultural research, education and extension in India., 1998 . In 49th FID Conference and Congress on Towards the New Information Society of Tomorrow : Innovations, Challenges and Impact, New Delhi (India), 11-17 October 1998. [cited var currentTime = new Date();var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1;var day = currentTime.getDate();var year = currentTime.getFullYear();document.write(month + "/" + day + "/" + year)]. Available from WWW: http://eprints.rclis.org/6111/. [Conference Paper]
relation: http://eprints.rclis.org/6111/