SDC sponsored participants for IIndshort-term & attachment training programme are learning DSpace. DSpace is an open source software for creation and development of digital library. A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. A digital library is a type of information retrieval system.
DSpace is an open source software package that provides the tools for management of digital assets, and is commonly used as the basis for an institutional repository. It supports a wide variety of data, including books, theses, 3D digital scans of objects, photographs, film, video, research data sets and other forms of content. The data is arranged as community collections of items, which bundle bitstreams together. DSpace is also intended as a platform for digital preservation activities. Since its release in 2002, as a product of the HP-MIT Alliance, it has been installed and is in production at over 800 institutions around the globe, from large universities to small higher education colleges, cultural organizations, and research centers. It is shared under a BSD licence, which enables users to customize or extend the software as needed.
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During the inauguration of the Indo-Nepal Literary and Cultural Festival, SAARC Secretary General Fathimath D Saeed informed that SAARC had created a facebook page to reach out to the general public and also for creating a stronger South Asian identity particularly among the youths.
More than 60 people from the field of art, literature and culture are attending the three day festival being organised at the initiative of Foundation of SARC Writers and Literature, an apex body of SAARC, in collaboration of Indian Embassy, Kathmandu and BP Koirala India Nepal Foundation. The festival will feature poems recitation by noted literary personalities from Nepal and India, paper presentation on tourism, culture, art and architecture and music and dance presentation.
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Now-a-days, SDC sponsored participants are learning basics of webpage designing in the Short-term / Attachment Training Programme at NISCAIR.
A web page or webpage is a document or information resource that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a monitor or mobile device. This information is usually in HTML or XHTML format, and may provide navigation to other web pages via hypertext links. Web pages frequently subsume other resources such as style sheets, scripts and images into their final presentation. Web pages are requested and served from web servers using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Web pages may consist of files of static text and other content stored within the web server's file system (static web pages), or may be constructed by server-side software when they are requested (dynamic web pages). Client-side scripting can make web pages more responsive to user input once on the client browser.
Participants are learning basics of HTML skill and MS-FrontPage.
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The SDC sponsored participants are learning Koha - Open Source Integrated Library Management Software in the Short-term / Attachment Training Programme at NISCAIR (on 17-18 Oct. 2011). Koha is an open source Integrated Library System (ILS), used world-wide by public, school and special libraries. The name koha comes from a Māori term for a gift or donation. Koha is the first free software library automation package. In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of users collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. Koha is web-based ILS, with a SQL database backend with cataloguing data stored in MARC and accessible via Z39.50. The user interface is very configurable and adaptable and has been translated into many languages. Koha has most of the features that would be expected in an ILS.
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The SDC sponsored participants are learning ABCD - Library Automation Software in the Short-term / Attachment Training Programme at NISCAIR (on 13-14 Oct. 2011). ABCD, as an integrated package for library automation (both traditional but also digital/virtual libraries !) and a tool for documentation centers, is the culmination of several technologies developed by BIREME (OPS/PAHO, Brazil). The package contains an advanced database management (both creation/definition and data-entry/cataloging) module, an OPAC integrated into a 'library portal' page with meta-search functionality for either local or remote databases (iAH), a Serials Control module (SeCS), a module for Circulation and Statistics, a Thesaurus Manager and - to be added later - an Acquisition module. The software heavily relies on ISIS-database technology (developed by UNESCO).
ABCD is the acronym for a software suite for the automation of libraries and documentation centres. In Spanish this is, in full 'Automatisación de Bibliotécas y Centros de Documentación', which keeps the same acronym valid also for French (Automation des Bibliothèques et Centres de Documentacion) or Portugese (Automatização das Bibliotecas e dos Centros de Documentação). Even in other non-latin languages, with some slight but quite acceptable variations, -e.g. Dutch : 'Automatisering van Bibliotheken en Centra voor Documentatie' -the acronym can still be maintained.
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The Charter (Article III) of SAARC provides that the Heads of State or Government "shall meet once a year or more often as and when considered necessary by the Member States". However, the Summit has generally been convened at an interval of one and half year or so. The next i.e. Seventeenth Summit of the Heads of State or Government is scheduled to be held at Addu City, Maldives on 10-11 November 2011. Addu City or Seenu Atoll is the southernmost atoll of the Maldives. Most inhabited islands in Addu are in the western reef and these are Hithadhoo, Feydhoo, Maradhoo, Gan while the islands of Meedhoo, and Hulhudhoo share a large island in the east. One of the most populated atolls in the Maldives, with over 30,000 people, the islands are connected with each other through a ‘link road’ and the islands are comparatively larger than that of other islands in the Maldives.
“SAARC Summit 17: Building Bridges”, has been chosen by the Government of Maldives as the theme for the Seventeenth SAARC Summit to be held in Maldives in November this year. The theme has been selected as a visionary thought to link past, present and future of SAARC without undermining the achievements of 26 years of building SAARC.
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The second short-term & attachment training programme for the year 2011 were started on 3rd October 2011 at SDC. Participants from various SAARC member states are attending the programmes. The programmes are being organized by NISCAIR and SDC sponsors SAARC nominated participants. The short-term training programme is a one-month programme on "Information Technology for Information Management", while the Attachment training programme is a three-month programme. During this period, participants will learn Open Source Software in Library Areas, Digital Library, DSpace, Green Stone Digital Library (GSDL), WINISIS, Koha, SQL etc. The participants will be introduced about the e-consortia system also.
