Yatrik Patel

• Information and Library Network

The ICSSR Data Service emerged as an answer to persistent demand across the globe for open availability and sharing government and research data collected or developed through public funding. Objectives of the open data movement are perfectly aligned to other “open movements” such as open source, open access, open standards, open hardware and open...

Wide range of indexing techniques exists in the world of relational database. Speed of data insertion & retrieval depends on the type of query and available Indexing mechanism. Prevalent mechanisms lack in terms of space-time efficiency and simple structure, for real time applications where the database system needs to handle queries like equality...

The paper is about REST (Representational State Transfer) patterns URI using various new web technologies. This paper discusses use of REST URI with several Semantic Web components, along with Semantic Web and Ontology technology implementation approaches along with theory concepts in mind so the practical implementation can be further carried out...

The technological advances today make it possible to think in terms of storing all the knowledge of the human race in digital form and several organizations worldwide are experimenting with less-expensive ways to create Institutional Repositories. For long-term preservation of our knowledge base and cultures, we have to find out an economical way t...

Reports on INFLIBNET’s annual convention International CALIBER – 2004 that was held at Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university in New Delhi on 11-13 February. States that the theme of the convention was “Road Map to New Generation of libraries using emerging technologies” and papers were presented which emphasized the importance of the architect...

Content in Distributed servers, located at various locations, mostly non homogenous in nature with different platforms, different OS, different format becoming a big challenge for information professionals. This paper proposes a model for how to map relational bibliographic databases such as library databases/catalogues and bring these content in t...

The INFLIBNET Centre has SOUL software developed for the automation and management of the Indian academic libraries, which has presence across the country in around 1500 libraries. INFLIBNET Centre being a nodal agency for Indian universities and keeping in view the requirement of the modernization of the their libraries with ICT facilities, Centre...

Concept of Globalization of Software can be boom to advancement of projects related to Digital libraries and associated software. Much need is felt in the Indian context where support is to be provided for many languages to take care of diversified regional requirements and complexity of INDIC script. In this paper we have presented an approach and...

Internet is one of the valuable and probably most used information resources in the libraries present days. Information Technology have made data retrieval easier and faster, giving rise to a substantial industry providing access to professional, business and scientific information. In Indian context a little progress has been made towards increasi...