WebInformation services Contest

[S Raghuraman, IIT Kharagpur Phone: (03222) - (55221 - 4) - 3060]

 Dear Sir,
 
     I would like you to visit the following site.
 
     I would like to humbly inform the following things which we
      are doing to Integrate its Webservices with our limited
      knowledge in this vast progressing area.
 
      Hope since this site is from India , It would be appreciated
      as a first of its kind in the country for /Hosting/Integrating
      Library services on the web.
      (If any site available with Library database on the web in
        India, Kindly excuse me and post the same URL to me)
 
 WorkDone
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     (Library OPAC (contains all Library collections)
      User Awareness Services, Electronic library Services
       etc.,
       Infact recently we have integrated CD-ROM Networking Product
       with WindowsNT, (this has been tested successfully and to be
       put into Userservices shortly)
 
     We are trying to integrate our SDI service Webbased.
     otherthings in the pipe line on
 
 To access this website one has come through
  http://144.16.192.1   (or) http://www.iitkgp.ernet.in
 
     and select Services  Menu (in that Central Library to be selected)
     our URL http://144.16.192.18 (or) http://libweb.iitkgp.ernet.in
 
 Work Progressing
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  SOCIS: Social Care Information Systems for Information Age
 
     this we are trying to integrate with (Http,mSQL,Java etc.,) 
      this work related got published in recent FID '98 conference.
      I can send the abstract of this work, which is al following.
 
 Abstract of the Work
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 Decision  making  at the highest level for  socio-economic  problems 
 involves specialists and many a time, social leaders face tremendous 
 pressure  to  identify experts on "Social Care  Information  Systems  
 (SOCIS)   which  will  take  care   of   all   health,    education,   
 psychological    and  future  developmental  aspects  for  empowered 
 citizens. A seed for such a system can  be grown  on   the  existing 
 database   products   &   In-house    generated   information,    by  
 appropriately  integrating with  new  Information Technology   tools  
 like  web,  e-mail,  multimedia   etc.   In   Indian  Institute   of  
 Technology,  we  are  planning  to  research   and implement    such  
 a   system  using  faculty  experts database, IKED -  IIT  Kharagpur 
 Expert  Database   and other commercial products. The offshoots   of  
 this attempt will create the following probable products:
 
 1)   Government or industry can identify suitable  faculty   members 
 pursuing a particular problem.
 
 2)   Automatic  delivery of personalized information   services   to 
 members    when   the   databases   are   updated,    leading     to 
 webcasting /push technology based products. 
 
 3)  A database of articles from Journals subscribed by  the  Central 
 Library   since  its  inception will be  made  available   to   help 
 resource    sharing/   document  delivery/  Inter    Library    Loan 
 arrangements. 
 
 This   paper  attempts  to  report a  part  of  the   research   and 
 implementation  of  SOCIS prototype, which can be extended later  to 
 cover experts in other institutions.
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    Other work we are trying is
 II) P/RESERWE on the Web:
 (i.e) Print/Reprint services on the Web this is to integrate faculty
 publications on the web.
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 Thanks
 
 warm regards
 Raghuraman S
 Fri Dec 04 09:46:48 IST 1998
  
  This message is being sent to several groups; please excuse duplicate postings.
  
  The Local Systems and Services Committee (of the American Library 
  Association/Reference and User Services Association/Machine Assisted Reference 
  Section) is beginning work on a directory of innovative and creative Web-based 
  reference services in various categories such as
  
  	*expert systems
  	*reference menu organization
  	*reference FAQ databases
  	*reference department intranets
  	*locally produced bibliographic and full-text databases
  	*tutorials
  	*others?
  
  Do you know of any libraries that have done innovative or creative work in such 
  areas?  Perhaps your own academic, public, or special library?  If yes, please 
  send me a *short* description of the project and a URL or sample.
  
  The Local Systems and Services Committee will review your suggestions and 
  develop criteria over the upcoming months to use in identifying a few 
  outstanding examples in each category.  The final result of this project will 
  be a Web site
  with descriptions and links for three to five sites in each of the various 
  categories.
  
  Thank you!
  
  Stan Lyle
  Local Systems and Services

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