11.35 am – 1.05 pm

Session 8A
(The Stein Auditorium)

Digital Libraries: Semantics, thesauri, ontologies

Invited talks:
Ian H. Witten (New Zealand)
Finding documents and reading them: semantic metadata extraction, topic browsing and realistic books

T A V Murthy, S I Ahson, K.Srinivas (India)
Semantic Search Implementation for e-Journal Consortium

Contributed Paper:

1. Hiranmay Ghosh, Gaurav Harit and Santanu Chaudhury (India)
Ontology based interaction with multimedia collections

2. Dennis Nicholson and Emma McCulloch (U K)
Investigating the Feasibility of a Distributed, Mapping-based, Approach to Solving Subject Interoperability Problems in a Multi-scheme, Cross-service, Retrieval Environment

Digital library: Country Report

Chair:
Mr John Paschoud
Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics, UK

Invited talks:
1. S. Mandal (India)
The National Library of India in the Digital Environment

2. Michèle Battisti (France)
How 13 French Library Associations succeeded in having some exceptions in the French Law

Contributed Papers:

1. Daza (Bhutan)
Digitization Initiatives in the National Library of Bhutan

2. Saroja Wettasinghe (Sri Lanka)
Digitization of the documentary heritage in Sri Lanka

Digital Library and its preservation

Chair:
Ms. Kalpana Dasgupta
Former Director, Central Secretariat Library, New Delhi and Former Librarian, National Library Kolkata, India

Invited talks:
Mr Jean-Marc Comment (Switzerland)
Swiss Federal Archives, Switzerland

Long-term preservation on digital documents: Some Strategic Comments

Jagdish Arora (India)
Digital Preservation: Major Issues, Challenges and Strategies

Contributed Paper:

1. Brown Heather (Australia)
Who guards the guards – meeting the challenges of digital preservation

2. Ramesh C Gaur (India)
Long Term Digital Preservation: Some initiatives in India and Germany

Panel Discussion
Digital Library Policy and Security

2.00 – 4.00 p.m.

(Venue: The Stein Auditorium)

Many of the digital library and allied concerns are deeply rooted. This is due to lack of awareness, non-availability of standard digitization manuals for regional (localized) requirements and insufficient knowledge of policy related issues. The Governments, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and media as well as other information stakeholders have an enormous responsibility towards sensitizing the society and finally leading to a knowledge society by using digital technology. The challenge ahead is to develop a Roadmap towards framing national DL policies (IPRs, Best practices, Legislations, Access), Social issues including Digital Divide (Economic, Infrastructure, Language), Economic issues (Sources, Monitoring, Sustainability), Technological issues and other key issues related to digitization and digital library.

Moreover, as knowledge is put in the digital form in DL, their intellectual security and extent of fair use are also of major concern today. Electronic information providers and DL developers are frequently using various access management tools, technologies, IPR disclaimers, etc. to protect indigenous knowledge and originality of documents in digital form. However, it is the general feeling that in most of the developing countries, awareness needs to be created in this regard. The panel is expected to provide their views on the ways and means of ensuring digital security and awareness development framework.

Chair:
Mr Jainder Singh
Secretary, Dept. of Information Technology, Ministry of Information Technology, Govt of India, New Delhi

Panelist:
Mr Pankaj Agrawala, IAS
Joint Secretary, Dept. of Information Technology, Ministry of Information Technology, Govt of India, New Delhi

Mr K Jayakumar, IAS
Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India, New Delhi

Prof. P. Tapio Varis
Acting President, Global University System, UNESCO Chair in global e-Learning with applications to multiple domains, and Professor and Chair of Media Education, University of Tampere, Finland

Mr Pavan Duggal
Advocate on IT and Cyber Law, Supreme Court of India

Mr Frank Vranken Peeters
Managing Director, Global Sales, Elsevier Science, The Netherlands

Ms. Kalpana Dasgupta
Former Director, Central Secretariat Library, New Delhi and Former Librarian, National Library Kolkata, India

Prof. Alan Hopkinson
Head of Library Systems, Learning Resources, The Sheppard Library, Middlesex University, U K