Browsing by Author "K, Manoj Kumar"

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    Building an Image Repository for Indian Cultural Heritage Materials – A Digital Library Approach
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Lalitha, P; Murthy, T A V; Khan, M T M; K, Manoj Kumar
    Digitization has immense potential to store, preserve, disseminate and redistribute cultural materials, if the materials are captured in a bit stream format so as to enable to access through network for learning and understanding the history and culture of a civic society. Generally these materials are stored in museums or in libraries, but they can be spread over the globe and with the spread of the Internet, such contents can be made available to any corner of the world. Universal access implicitly assumes a largely unidirectional flow of information from the developed world to the developing world but the latter is often richer in traditional wisdom, crafts, and cultural artifacts: digital technologies have the potential to preserve that heritage and make it accessible. For developing an Image Repository for photographs of Ancient cultural material by using the advanced digital technology is a challenge, which include description of the photographs of Indian cultural Heritage Materials, Creating Metadata from the sample, Mapping the created metadata with Dublin Core, Developing an Image Repository System using Digital Library open source software etc. This paper is the result of the case study of such an attempt by the authors on exploring Open Source Digital Library Software, DSpace, for preserving the cultural heritage materials.
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    Building the State-of-the-Art IT Infrastructure for ICT enabled Higher Educational Institutions
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2013-07) K, Manoj Kumar
    Strength and quality of a higher education institute leverage on the state-of-the-art IT infrastructure which works as the technical backbone for the activities carried out by the institute and skilled manpower to handle the IT services of the Institute. Planning, analysing, designing, implementing and testing of such low voltage IT solutions which covers networking with virtualisation switches and structured gigabit cabling, IP telephony, Building Management System (BMS), sophisticated Data Centre with highend servers, UTM, Public Addressing System, Surveillance System, Video conferencing etc. are challenging tasks. This article introduces the concept of various components required for such a planning, designing and implementation of such a low voltage IT Solution.
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    Recent Trends in Databases and New Technologies for providing Online Library Services to create “Intelligent Libraries”
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2015-01) K, Manoj Kumar
    Library services have gone through phenomenal changes in providing information services by adopting proven technologies for dissemination of information to the users. Due to the fundamental shift in accessing information, latest tools and technologies are developed for meeting the versatility of platform for sharing of information over Internet. Over past few decades, databases played major roles in storing and indexing information in a structured way. Relational databases became important software for storage and management of data in conventional libraries. Various commercial as well as open source database management software have been introduced for various purposes. These software are having structured architecture to query and retrieve information through standard SQL. The compulsion to handle voluminous and structures data such as audios and videos has given birth to unstructured query languages like NoSQL databases. Similarly for the user interfaces, simple HTML and CSS have been replaced with more sophisticated tools like JSP, JSON, XML, XHTML & HTML 5, J-Query, DOM, AJAX, HTML5, built-in Java/PHP framework, etc. Device and browser independent applications are in demand due to the penetration of smartphones, tablets and other hand-held wireless devices amongst masses. These kinds of latest devices are widely used by academic community and users also demand for the applications which can easily run on these devices. Android, Windows Phone, Palm WebOS, Blackberry etc. are commonly used by students and academic community who look for the library services to run on these devices. To reach services and applications to the all strata of the society, the services should be available in vernacular languages also. This paper discussed evolution of databases and library automation software, trends in technological changes in application development, innovation in providing services, semantic web, ontology, recent front-end tools for user interface design and strategies to be adopted to choose such trends and tools.
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    Security for Libraries in the Digital Networked Environment
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-02-02) K, Manoj Kumar; K M, Haneefa
    Libraries are using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for their operations and services by making huge investments and spending vast amounts of staff time for the selection, acquisition, retrieval, and dissemination of digital information. But the proliferation of computers, widespread acceptance of computer networks, explosive growth of Internet, increased reliance on electronic databases and the move from dedicated mainframe environments to client-server environments make libraries vulnerable to security threats. The moment user connects the computer to a Network or Internet, is the moment that the security of data has been compromised. Even the most secure systems, shepherded by the most intelligent and able system administrators, and employing the most up-to-date, tested software available are at risk every day. It is very essential to take all measures to protect the ICT infrastructure from security threats. However, libraries are lagging behind in realizing the need to protect their ICT resources and services from misuse, damage, theft, sabotage, mistake, etc. This paper deals with the issues related to the security of libraries in the present digital networked environment and makes recommendations for protecting ICT resources and services. The paper discusses security risks, strategies for security, security policy, personnel security, physical security, software security, network security, Internet security, access control, protection against computer viruses, protection of public terminals and backup information. This paper also discusses the need for professional assignments for library security and the importance of security training for library professionals.
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    Shodhganga and Deterring Plagiarismin Research Outputs in Indian Universities
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2015-03-12) K, Manoj Kumar; Arora, Jagdish
    Theses and dissertations are known to be the rich and unique source of information, often the only source of research work that does not find its way into various publication channels. The INFLIBNET Centre is entrusted with the responsibility of hosting, maintaining and making the digital repository called "Shodhganga" accessible to all institutions and universities. It is envisaged that the ShodhGanga would overcome serious problem of duplication of research and poor quality resulting from the "poor visibility" and the "unseen" factor in research output. In order to increase quality of research, plagiarism is to be checked before accepting the content in theses and dissertations. Under Shodhganga project, Two plagiarism detection software tools, namely “iThenticate” and “Turnitin”, are being made accessible to 110 universities with funds made available by the University Grants Commission. This paper discusses the model introduced in India for creation of a central repository of theses and dissertations, its current status, guidelines for submission of these, deterring plagiarism under the Shodhganga initiative, criteria adopted by the INFLIBNET Centre for selection of plagiarism detection platform, analysis of usage, recommendation of formulating policies and guidelines to check plagiarism in universities, future plans etc.
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    SMS Interface for A Library Management Package : Soul Experience
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-02-08) K, Manoj Kumar
    Information sharing using wireless medium has picked up momentum in the recent years due to the huge penetration of mobile devices to the critical mass. Cellular phone, Wireless, PDA, and other Mobile Devices are increasing in number among the academic community. Sharing the information by using the latest wireless network technology such as Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, Wireless LAN, Bluetooth and cellular technology such as GSM, GPRS, CDMA, TDMA, WAP / WAP 2.0, WML, WMLScript, XHTML MP, WCSS / WAP CSS and SMS are predominantly becoming most sought after development platform now. Leveraging this development in technology, it is also important to explore the possibility of such technological advantages for the effective management of Library activities. SOUL is a software designed, developed and distributed by INFLIBNET to academic institutions in the country for Library Automation. SMS interface to such a package will be an added advantage for the timely alert for the services rendered by the software. This paper discusses the development paradigm for the SMS interface for the new SOUL software for reminder module, alert for the vendor/publisher, user service, CAS service etc. using standard solutions for information sharing using mobile devices.
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    UGC-Infonet 2.0 and National Knowledge Network (NKN)
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2010-04) K, Manoj Kumar
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    UGC-INFONET : A Cross-Sectional view on Infrastructure
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2006-11-09) Sharma, S K; Parida, Ellora; K, Manoj Kumar
    Indian education system is one of the largest and oldest education systems in the world. now in the Indian education system, universities form the base for success in higher education. Global competition in education system forced the Indian universities to change their curricula frequently and introduce new subjects, which impose a great demand to have good communication network infrastructure so that researchers, scholars and students can tap the most up-to-date information. To bring quality in higher education, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has taken major initiative to modernise the university campuses with the state-of-the-art campus wide networks and has set up its own nationwide communication network named UGC-Infonet. This paper introduces a cross-sectional view of this initiative.