Amit Tiwari

Indian Statistical Institute | ISI · Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC)

Learning is an ongoing process. Human beings learn in a variety of formal and informal ways throughout their lives. These modes of learning have undergone tremendous changes. The learning and teaching process has entered a new era of learning called e-learning. E-Learning is the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) to increase acce...

This Essay was Submitted and Awarded First Position in the International Essay Competition 2022 on Relevance of Ranganathan's Approaches to the Modern-Day Information World. DLIS Central University of Haryana organized the competition in collaboration with other associates CSIR NIScPR (New Delhi, India), IFLA Section on Education and Training (The...

Progress in education and research, which go hand in hand, are the two key variables to determine the societal impact and ensure the future sustainability of an academic discipline. Since the inception of Library and Information Science (LIS) as an accredited academic discipline, the Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore, has...

The objectives of the study- • It highlights the recent topical trends in the GIS domain, providing the upcoming researchers and students with an idea about the hot topics of research. • The institutes most actively contributing to the field are also noted down in this paper. Hence, it can act as a guideline for people wanting to join the domain....

Ontological knowledge modelling of epics, though being an established research arena backed by concrete multilingual and multicultural works, still suffer from two key shortcomings. Firstly, all epic ontological models developed till date have been designed following ad-hoc methodologies, most often, combining existing general purpose ontology deve...

This paper explores the openly available DMP tools and forms a comparative analysis aimed at assisting researchers and data managers to formulate effective data management plans. Based on a literature review 14 DMP tools were selected and were evaluated using 45 selected parameters. The study enlists and enunciates the features of DMP tools, spots...

A maturity model represents a pre-planned evolution path for a class of objects composed as discrete stages or levels. Thereby, the maturity model is an effective tool to assess the current capabilities and the future needs of an organization, process, or group. This study had two phases. The first phase identified the core literature on maturity m...

Twenty-first century has witnessed enormous growth of domain-specific information and information resources. The emergence of new domains has posed a significant challenge in information organization and management. Though available in abundance on the Internet, the required information is scattered and may not be represented using standard metadat...

Data is a new factor of production in this era. A huge volume of data production is leading to the situation of data deluge. The challenge is how to manage such data? Data curation is the data management activity which aims to enable the accessibility and reusability of the data. Data is managed in the layers of curation, preservation, archiving an...

To build an information society, there has to be progress from the traditional infrastructure e.g. transport, communication to the non-traditional infrastructure i.e., environmental and intellectual infrastructure. Brett Frischmann defines intellectual infrastructure as “nonrival input into a wide variety of outputs.” The need for the intellectual...

Data are like crude oil, so as to generate some value from data, it needs to undergo further processing. This further processing is the analytics, which adds value to the crude data. Libraries and information centres generate data through its usual activities. Library data analytics is a scientific way to make decisions out of the data. Libraries a...

Libraries generate data by its usual activities. Library data analytics is a scientific way to make decisions out of the raw library data. R is an analytics and visualization tool, which can perform the analytics activity in libraries. R can be introduced in library and information science (LIS) curriculum. R packages like “bibliometrix”, “scholar”...

Digital India Initiative (DII) is a front-runner project with the motto of "Power to Empower", from the Government of India to provide government services to the people digitally and in affordable prices. To make an India Tomorrow (IT) that will be digitally empowered, there should be an aggregation of Indian Talent (IT) and Information Technology...

Music is not only for entertainment and pleasure but has been used for a wide range of purposes due to its social and physiological effects. At the beginning of 21st century, due to permeation of internet in daily life, the world is facing ever increasing growth of digitised music. Some of the music platforms having a collection of more than 30 mil...