Plenary Session: Keynote Address III
(Venue: The Stein Auditorium)

Moderator:
Jens Thorhauge
Director General, Danish Agency for Libraries and Media, Denmark

Speaker:
Dr R Chidambaram
Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India

Information storage and retrieval for global access

Chair:
Prof. Dr. Peter Schirmbacher
Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Invited speaker:
Gill Needham (UK)
The changing role of the information professional in the age of Google

Franciska M.G. de Jong (The Netherlands)
There is no data like metadata

Valrie Davis (USA)
Increasing access to agricultural publications using digital archives and the semantic web

Semantic web

Chair:
Prof K R Srivathsan
Pro-Vice Chancellor, IGNOU, India

Invited speaker:
Stefan Gradmann (Germany)
Knowledge = Information in Context: on the importance of semantic contextualisation in Europeana

Contributed speaker:
M Natarajan
Application of Semantic Web Technology to a Digital Library

Surjeet Mishra, and Hiranmay Ghosh
Ontology-based effective Visualization and Navigation in an online Digital Library

Shri Ram Pandey
Semantic Web and Ontology

Abhijit Dasgupta
A Semantic Approach towards the Knowledge Management of the Isolates/Facets of Oncology (Cancer Biology): A Case Study on Adenocarcinoma and Sarcoma

Pinki and Shashi P Singh
Semantic Web Technologies for Digital Libraries

Open Archives Initiatives

Chair:
Mr V N Shukla
Director, Application, CDAC, Noida, India

Invited speaker:
Jean-Marc Comment (Switzerland)
The Project ARELDA: Results and Open Issues

Sugimoto Shigeo (Japan)
Viewing Digital Information Resource Architectures from a Metadata Point of View – a Case Study on Metadata for Manga

Contributed speaker:
Gowda M Purushothama
Open Archives Initiative for Metadata Harvesting

Muhammad Rafiq (Pakistan)
The Perception of South Asian LIS Community towards Open Source Software Adoption in Libraries

DL Quality assurance and multimedia

Chair:
Dr. Andreas Rauber
Dept. of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Invited speaker:
R Sreedhar and Rukmini Vemraju
Quality Assurance for Multimedia Learning Materials

B S Bhatia

Anne Caputo (USA)
Five Global Trends Affecting Digital Libraries and Librarians

Contributed Speakers:

Robin Dresel and Narinder Kaur (Singapore)
Marketing eResources

Chandan Misra, Baidurya Bhattacharya and Anupam Basu
A New Framework to Preserve Tagore Songs

DL case studies: Country profile

Chair:
Dr. M Koteswara Rao
Librarian, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Invited speaker:
Jagdish Arora (India)
Indian Library and Information Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST): Extending Access to E-resources to Colleges in India

Ming Zhang (China)
Research and Construction of China Digital Library

Contributed Speakers:

Ramadan Elaiess (UK)
Design of a Low Cost Digital Library for the National Oil Corporation: Case Study

P K Jain and Geeta Khulbe
Planning and Development of Digital Library: Experience from Institute of Economic Growth

Web based methodologies

Chair:
Prof Shalini R Urs
Executive Director, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore

Invited speaker:
András Micsik (Hungari)
Models of emerging collaboration functions in Library 2.0

Contributed Speakers:

Caroline M. Stern (USA) and Jagtar Singh (India)
Human Intervention and Critical Thinking: Foundational Skills for Seeking Reliable and Contextual Information from the Internet

Ajay Kumar Pandey and S S Avachat
Ensuring Information ‘Survival’: Application of WordPress at ARDE

Sarika Tushar Wagh and Anju Midha
Library 2.0: Applying to Corporate Environment

Narendra Mishra and Nidhi Mathur
Developing implementation objective for web based education Information systems: Web based methodology

Sumeer Gul and Tariq Ahmad Shah
Log Analysis of Web Resources: A case study of state universities of Jammu & Kashmir

05.15 – 05.20 pm

Vote of Thanks
Dr Debal C Kar
Fellow, TERI, New Delhi