The course of human development has taken new dimension with the introduction of information and communication technology

(ICT)

 For

India, the rise of Information and Communication Technology is an opportunity to overcome historical disabilities and to become the master of one's own national destiny

 The

GOI has recognised the potential of ICT for rapid and all-round national development. The National Agenda for Governance, which is the Government's policy blueprint, has taken due note of the ICT Revolution that is sweeping the globe

Indian Libraries also have taken up the Challenge

Develop the machine readable catalogue and make it available on the network for wider accessibility; Develop machine readable full text documents to provide greater accessibility to full text databases of different nature; Standardize such development by adopting international standards; Explore ways and means to preserve the machine readable information in a way that can sustain the future requirements of ICT.; Changing the focus of government libraries from providing library services to the fulfilling the long pending focus of right to information.

GOVERNMENTAL PUBLICATIONS IN INDIA

The

sphere of governmental activity in India has expanded considerably. Many burning issues like population control, health management, economic and social condition of rural and urban masses, education, basic requirements. In every field the government has intervened

Types of documents published by the Government Organisations

Administrative

Reports Governmental Notifications Statistical Reports Budget Documents Committee and Commission Reports Research Reports

 Bills,

Acts, Laws, Codes, Rules and Regulations, Law Reports, Digests and Parliamentary Debates Reports of various Parliamentary Committees

TECHNOLOGICAL INITIATIVES BY GOVERNMENT

Initiatives

have been taken by National Informatics Centre to provide most of the information through a portal where in different kinds of digital documents on the governmental activities can be accessed. But these efforts also have not been properly coordinated and digital documents brought out by many of the departments do not form part of the Web site.

CENTRAL SECRETARIAT LIBRARY MISSION

take an Indian Initiative to ICT through its libraries to promote, facilitate the development of Indian tangible heritage from printed form to machine readable collections and provide services for optimal utlisation of resources and provide life long accessibility of information through vast library resources.

Central Secretariat Library : Types of Machine Readable Database

Machine

readable catalogue of bibliographical information for its document resources; Creating digital documents of the annual reports, budget documents of the parent Ministry; Creating digital documents of the Government of India Gazette from inception to date; Developing machine readable annotated bibliography of rare books; Developing Digital documents of selected government publications

CONCEPTUALISATION
PILOT

PROJECT

ANNUAL

REPORTS; PERFORMANCE BUDGET; DEMANDS FOR GRANTS; EXPENDITURE BUDGET OF DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE 1990-91 TO 2000-2001

OBJECTIVES
TO

DEVELOP CD BASED FULL TEXT ENGLISH DATABASE IS HIGHLY INSTINCTIVE AND IS 100% SEARCHABLE, NAVIGABLE AND CAN BE BROWSED ON ALL GRAPHICS, TABLES, FIGURES AND PHOTOGRAPHS

DATABASE

OBJECTIVES

DEVELOP INTERFACE FOR WEB ENABLING TO HOST ON CSL SERVER COLOCATED AT NIC

TO

SECOND PHASE CONCEIVED

ANNUAL

REPORTS, ETC. OF DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, 1970-71 TO 1989-1990

SECOND PHASE CONCEIVED

GOVERNMENT

OF INDIA (CENTRAL GOVERNMENT) GAZETTE

COMPLETE SETS ARE AVAILABLE FROM 1950 ONWARDS. MORE THAN 70% QUERRIES OF THE TOTAL USAGE OF INDIAN OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS PERTAIN TO GAZETTE OF INDIA

UNIQUENESS OF GAZETTE
ORGANISED

INTO DIFFERENT SECTIONS

AND PARTS
SEARCH

REQUIREMENTS ARE ON ANY ONE OR COMBINATION OF SUBJECT, PART NUMBER, SECTION, SUBSECTION, DATE, GSR NUMBER, AND S. O. NUMBER

OBJECTIVES
DEVELOP

VALUE BASED PRODUCT USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGY

SCANNING DATABASE GENERATION CONTENT ANALYSIS CONTENT MANAGEMENT

OBJECTIVES
CONCERVATION

AND PRESERVATION

WEB

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION

PORTAL

ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES
OPEN

TENDER SYSTEM
PROCESS

EVALUATION

TECHNICAL

EVALUATION

FINANCIAL

EVALUATION

TECHNICAL EVALUATION
CONSTITUTION

OF HIGH POWER TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

SPECIALIST

IN THE FIELD OF IT

SPECIALIST

FROM NIC

TECHNICAL EVALUATION
CONSTITUTION OF COMMITTEE.
SPECIALIST

FROM DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST FROM LIBRARY PROFESSION ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL SPECIALIST

TECHNICAL PARAMETERS

TWO PART EVALUATION

1.

2.

CREDIBILITY, TURNOVER, WORK FORCE,SIMILAR WORK EXPERIENCE TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

TECHNICAL DETAILS

ELEVEN PARAMETERS

Digitizing technique : scanning, OCR, Proofing or any other with technical specifications;

TECHNICAL DETAILS ..
ELEVEN

PARAMETERS

Format

for metadata creation; File format : TIFF and PDF or any other Organization of Images and the corresponding metadata in DBMS

TECHNICAL DETAILS
ELEVEN

PARAMETERS ..

Standard

DBMS used or it is a proprietary software Retrieval interface with standard search strategy Provision for Web enabling of data

TECHNICAL DETAILS .
ELEVEN

PARAMETERS

Resolution

: Scanning and Output/Display Portability from one platform to another Platform used Work flow

PROTOTYPES

ANNUAL

REPORTS

GAZETTE

DOCUMENTS

TECHNICAL RESULTS
COULD

SHORTLIST TWO AGENCIES

COULD

ACHIEVE BEST PRACTICES TO BE FOLLOWED UNDERTAKE BENCHMARKING OF THE BEST PRACTICES

COULD

BENCHMARK

SCANNING OCRing PROOFING FORMATING CONTENT ANALYSIS

BENCHMARK..
METADATA

CREATION USING UNIMARC AND DUBLIN CORE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PLATFORM PORTABILITY WEB ENABLING DELIVERABLES PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION

PORTAL DEVELOPMENT
Training-

cum-Workshop on Portal Application conducted by C-DAC;

the Core Group professionals Questionnaire for Content Collection

Identified

Developed

PORTAL DEVELOPMENT.
Web

based Portal for CSL and Libraries under the Department of Culture; Gateway for Government of India

Information

Libraries

DELIVERABLES

TIFF images to PDF with text ; PDF on CD-ROM after OCRing in RTF ( Rich Text Format) for full text search; TIFF on CD-ROM in raw form;

DELIVERABLES.
XML

based ODBC compliant database archives on CD-ROM; Installation of Portal Application Infrastructure; Hand over the Portal to CSL; Deliver the tools required for managing and updating the Portal;

 MAPPING

THE TAGS OF DUBLIN CORE WITH UNIMARC TECHNIQUE USED BY CSL : BASE IS THE WORK FLOW - STAGES OF WORK

COSTING

As we move into the electronic era of digital objects it is important to know that there are new barbarians at the gate and that we are moving into an era where much of what we know today, much of what is coded and written electronically, will be lost forever. We are, to my mind, living in the midst of digital Dark Ages; consequently, much as monks of times past, it falls to librarians and archivists to hold to the tradition which reveres history and the published heritage of our times.
Terry Kuny, Consultant, National Library of Canada 1998

THANKS