Installing and Running Harvest on Linux Platform

This paper presents a very brief introduction to installing and running Harvest system. The various steps involved in installing and running are given with simple explanation and it is no substitution to the Harvest Manual

Chaos! Thy name is Internet

Of the recent developments there is hardly anything comparable to the Internet when it comes to the impact on public life. But again, it can at best described as immature. Firstly, it is too slow, has unreliable connectivity and is almost on the verge of collapse with more and more multimedia. (Partly, the World Wide Web was responsible for this, as it had eaten away other services on the Net like Archie, gopher etc.). Secondly, the Net is the best example of chaos. Yes! Internet has a long way to go

A Z39.50 Client for Retrieving MARC21 Records in Batch Mode

The paper presents a Perl program for downloading MARC21 records from a Z3950 compliant target in a batch mode. Also discusses some of the open source software for Z39.50 protocol required for running the Perl program

Creation of Digital Libraries in Indian Languages Using Unicode

Unicode is 16-bit code for character representation in a computer. Unicode is designed by Unicode consortium. It represents almost all the world script including extinct many of extinct scripts like Bramhi and Kharosthi. ISCII is another code developed for to represent the Indian characters in computer but there are problems with character representation using ISCII. It is found that Unicode can solve the problem. This paper suggests measures for creation of Digital library in Indic languages and the problem associated with Unicode

Implementing LOM Schema in DSpace

DSpace facilitates Qualified Dublin Core. There have been attempts to extend DSpace ability to host other metadata schemes e.g. electronic theses and dissertations like Tapir. However, the user community has often expressed the requirement for other metadata formats like VRA core, IMS LOM etc. Support for many metadata formats will greatly enhance the use of DSpace and the type of resources that could be preserved using DSpace. Since version (1.2.2), DSpace comes with much needed input forms with which one can define ones own submission forms. This feature provides additional ability of adding any metadata format to DSpace, in addition to existing Qualified Dublin Core. This papers attempts to provide guidelines for modifying DSpace files to accommodate additional metadata formats like IMS-LOM

Using Multimedia Database with WWWISIS on Win9x/NT

The paper attempts to discuss the various issues in using wwwisis software on win9x/NT platform, with a multimedia database having images, audio and video files

DSpace Administration

This paper describes the various steps involved in administering DSpace, like creating and maintaining Communities and Collections, E-People; authorizing E-People to submit to the Collections; creating and maintaining E-Groups, etc