BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Midway X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Midway BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-1100 TZOFFSETTO:-1100 TZNAME:SST DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5385115:Event:8816 DTSTAMP:20260414T104241Z SUMMARY:National Workshop on Building Open Access Digital Libraries of PhD Theses Using Nitya D’Arch. November 2 - 3, 2010 DESCRIPTION:Open Access Online PhD Theses is highly connected to the p urpose of universities and the value of scholarship. It advances the u niversity's interest and fulfills its mission to share the knowledge i t produces. In India the first university to take initiative in this r egard is Mahatma Gandhi University. The launching of the Mahatma Gandh i University (MGU) Open Access Digital Archive of PhD Theses (www.mgut heses.org) in 2008 by Former President of India H E Dr. A P J Abdul Ka lam and the live presence of the archive in the web for the last two y ears is a success story among Indian universities. It is accessible fr om anywhere at any time through the URL http://www.mgutheses.org since its launching in 2008.\nWith all the encouragement and instruments pr ovided by UGC during the the last decadeIt MGU Archive is still the on ly successful full text Open Access archives of dissertations hosted i n the web by any Indian University. The archive has been selected as o ne of the Very Best Web Resources for Education and Research by INTUTE , the European Consortium of universities funded by Government of UK†™s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Arts and Humanit ies Research Council (AHRC). MGU has also become the first signatory a mong Indian universities to adopt UGC’s Regulation on E-Theses and c ontribute data to the UGC’s national Open Access archive of theses a t INFLIBNET.\nThe present Workshop is intended to encourage other univ ersities and research institutes in India to bring results of academic research to public domain and also familiarize Nitya D Arch and the m ultilingual technologies for full text archiving used in developing th e MGU Digital Archives of PhD theses that can be easily adopted by any university or research institute for any Indian language. Nitya D’ Arch facilitates multilingual data input, advanced Boolean query build ing, and deep indexing which facilitates retrieval of specific pages/s ections. The workshop will discuss various problems hidden in the proc ess of digitization of dissertations and introduce tetsed techniques a nd solutions. It will be an opportunity for implementers and developer s from Indian universities to gain both technical and theoretical insi ght in Theses Digitaization, technologies for Indian languages, and pr oviding Open Acces to results of public funded research.\nNo registrat ion fee will be charged for the participants who are selected to under go the programme in the first batch. But selection will be based on me rit of the participants benefits of this capability building for the s ponsoring institute. Cost of boarding, lodging, travel and other expen ses are to be born by the sponsoring institution.\n\nFor Registration, Contact: Dr. R. Raman Nair, Mahatma Gandhi University Library, Priyad arsini Hills, Kottayam- 686560. Telephone: 0481 273080, 273018, 938782 6738\nFor related programs and announcements, please visit the blog: h ttp://mgutheses.wordpress.org and also the news section of the MGU the ses Archive at mgutheses.org from where the Workshop brochure and Regi stration Form can be downloaded.\n\nFor more information visit http:// legacy.openaccessweek.org/events/national-workshop-on-building DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20101102T090000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20101103T170000 CATEGORIES:workshop LOCATION:Mahatma Gandhi Univeristy WEBSITE:http://mgutheses.org URL:http://mgutheses.org CONTACT:9387826738 ORGANIZER:Dr. R. Raman Nair, Univeristy Librarian, MGU ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/3057472824?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Dr. R. R aman Nair":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/DrRRamanNair END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR