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Designing Digital Library Of Perso-Arabic Script: An Experiment., Nadim Akhtar Khan, Rosy Jan, Sheikh Shazia Dec 2009

Designing Digital Library Of Perso-Arabic Script: An Experiment., Nadim Akhtar Khan, Rosy Jan, Sheikh Shazia

NADIM AKHTAR KHAN

The Greenstone digital library software is a comprehensive system for building and distributing digital library collections providing a new way for organizing and publishing information on the Internet. The paper describes how multilingual digital library collections can be created and customized using various features available in Greenstone Digital Library Software. It is an attempt towards creating and managing digital library collection in different scripts for M. Phil and Ph. D theses submitted to University of Kashmir in Arabic, Persian, Kashmiri and Urdu.


Knoor: Knowledge Repository Open Network., S M. Shafi, Nadim Akhtar Khan, Rosy Jan Dec 2009

Knoor: Knowledge Repository Open Network., S M. Shafi, Nadim Akhtar Khan, Rosy Jan

NADIM AKHTAR KHAN

The paper discusses KNoor (Knowledge Repository Open Network) which aims at harvesting and aggregating the scholarly products emanating from research and scientific institutions of Jammu & Kashmir. The paper highlights genesis, significance, cooperation and various modules of access etc with screen shots as a unique cooperative, multilingual repository of research papers, ETDs and conference proceedings of three premier institutes of valley (University of Kashmir, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical sciences, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences) in the first phase. It also discusses challenges and lessons learnt in the process with a view to help other institutions to advance the mission of …