Software Portal for Library and Information science

Professionals

Introduction

Software Infrastructure is an umbrella term for many activities. Information technology

infrastructure is usually considered with respect to its main areas such as computer hardware and
software, telecommunication and networking. Software installation is required to create
bibliography, content pages, abstracts and full-text electronic databases and their networking. It
also needed to create various union catalogues and to develop efficient software to handle online
user’s queries. A modern library which wants to be part of the resources sharing network should
have computer, printers, modems, scanners, database creation and its networking, software of
specified standards, telephone connectivity, network access, photocopying machines and fax. The
Information infrastructure is expected to provide the integration of software and still that will make
it easy and affordable to connect people with each other, with computers and with a vast array of
services and information resources.

What is Portal?

A Web site "gateway" that provides multiple services, which could include Web searching
capability, news, free-email, discussion groups, online shopping, references and other services. A
more recent trend is to use the same term for sites that offer services to customers of particular
industries, such as a Web-based bank "portal," on which customers can access their checking,
savings and investment accounts.

Tool or set of tools for organized knowledge discovery that assists identification and selection of
appropriate target resources; provides federated searching and information retrieval of descriptive
metadata from multiple, diverse target resources, including but not limited to commercial or
licensed electronic resources, databases, Web pages, and library catalogs; manages access to target
resources and portal functionalities for authenticated user communities based on various user
classes. This study is focus on portal design for LIS professionals.

Objectives
 To organize software for Library and Information Science Professional like.
o Digital library Software
o Web design software
o Information Retrieval Software
 o Library Housekeeping Software
o OCR and Image Capture Software
o Navigation Software
 To promote Hyperlink to Software URLs.
 To promote the ways for optimizing services to LIS professionals.

Digital Library Software

Eprints Archive Software (EAS)

EPrints is generic archive software under development by the University of Southampton. It is

intended to create a highly configurable web-based archive. EPrints primary goal is to be set up as
an open archive for research papers, but it could be easily used for other things such as images,
research data, audio archives - anything that can be stored digitally by making changes in
configuration. It works on Linux O/s and it needs MySQL, Perl modules and Apache webserver.
(http://www.eprints.org/software/)

Greenstone

Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides
a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone
is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library project at the University of Waikato, and
distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Humanity Libraries Project. It is open-source
software, available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone/

DSpace Durable Digital Depository

DSpace is a digital repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of
MIT. As a joint project of MIT Libraries and the Hewlett-Packard Company, DSpace provides
stable long-term storage needed to house the digital products of MIT faculty and researchers. For
the user: DSpace enables easy remote access and the ability to read and search DSpace items from
one location: the World Wide Web. For the contributor: DSpace offers the advantages of digital
distribution and long-term preservation for a variety of formats including text, audio, video,
images, datasets and more. Authors can store their digital works in collections that are maintained
by MIT communities. For the institution: DSpace offers the opportunity to provide access to all
the research of the institution through one interface. The repository is organized to accommodate
the varying policy and workflow issues inherent in a multi-disciplinary environment. Submission
workflow and access policies can be customized to adhere closely to each community's needs.
(http://www.dspace.org/)

GNUTECA POPULAR

GNUTECA is a Free, Open Source Software for Library Automation, including a Loan System,
Catalog Collaboration, MARC Editing among others. It has a Web and GTK (graphic) interface.
(http://www.gnuteca.org.br/)

CERN Document Server Software (CDSware)

The CERN Document Server Software (CDSware) is the software developed by, maintained by,
and used at, the CERN Document Server. It allows you to run your own electronic preprint server,
your own online library catalogue or a document system on the web. It complies with the Open
Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol (OAI-PMH) and uses MARC 21 as its underlying
bibliographic standard. The CDSware is free software, licensed under GNU General Public Licence
(GPL). (http://cdsware.cern.ch/)

Ibero-american and Caribbean Digital Library Proyect

Ibero-American and Caribbean Digital Library Proyect is an initiative between UNESCO,

University of Colima on and other experts of the region. The methodology that the registry of
resources of information (metadatos) of any type of digital object "books, journals, thesis, music,
images, audio, video, etc. As well as the formats and techniques for the digitalization, Design and
development of the Z39.50 standard for the exchange of information. The objective is to create a
great digital library of the region that this free one of author rights. In order to obtain software
http://bdigital.ucol.mx consults the page or the version in CD-ROM to ask for a copy to the person
in charge(http://bdigital.ucol.mx/)

Koha Open Source Library System

Made in New Zealand by the Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications Ltd the Koha
system is a full catalogue, opac, circulation and acquisitions system. (http://www.koha.org/)

Museolog

Museolog is a web-driven software system for cataloging museum information. It's software for
managing information about museum artefacts collection written using Java/JSP. This software is
licensed by GPL license. Museolog has been initially developed by EUROCLID within UNESCO
HeritageNet project. This system used in museums of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan republics.
Currently Museolog has one developer.(http://museolog.sourceforge.net)

The Open Source Digital Library System Project (PYTHEAS)

PYTHEAS1 (Powerful Yet Tactfully Helpful Electronic Arranger of Sources) is designed to be a

multi-tier ILS (Integrated Library System). The two major building blocks for providing server-
based metadata and information retrieval capabilities in PYTHEAS are MARC (MAchine Readable
Cataloguing) and RDF (the Resource Description Framework), standards that define a format for
describing objects and can package highly structured metadata for describing content and content
relationships in physical and digital objects. The client environment for PYTHEAS can best be
described as "web-centric". The objective is to provide a platform and language neutral
environment for accessing and manipulating the information in PYTHEAS.
(http://osdls.library.arizona.edu/index.html)

 LearningAccess ILS

The LearningAccess ILS is a full-feature Open Source library automation system developed
for use by public and school libraries throughout world. The Institute will make this system
 available free to libraries that, because of cost, have been unable to achieve the benefits of
automation. The system fully supports MARC21, Z39.50, Unicode andother critical lirbary
standards as identified by IFLA.(www.learningaccess.org)

 Avanti Circulation System

The Avanti circulation system is a simple, scalable, networkable, client/server circulation

system that can be deployed in small to medium scale libraries. The end product will be
modular: consisting of a system core, circulation module, minimal OPAC, and network and
user interfaces. The entire system is written in Java. Avanti 0.3.1 was developed using the
Blackdown JDK v1.1.7 on a Linux system with the servlet classes being developed using
the Apache Jserv servlet engine. (http://www.nsls.info/~schlumpf/avanti/)

OCLC SiteSearch Open Source Project

The OCLC SiteSearch™ software provides a comprehensive solution for managing

distributed library information resources in a World Wide Web environment. It offers tools
that integrate electronic resources under one web interface, provide flexible access to
resources, and build text and image databases locally. (http://www.sitesearch.oclc.org/)

Methodology
The focus is on design portal for LIS Professionals using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
and most of the resources collected from Internet and Books. The subject area of coverage Digital
library Software, Web design software, Information Retrieval Software, Library Housekeeping
Software, OCR and Image Capture Software and Navigation Software etc.

Conclusion
 Libraries have the noble mission of imparting education to all the people of the nation
irrespective of case, sex, age, education levels, etc. and to provide a link between past and present
knowledge and thus reshape our future society.

Therefore, it goes without saying that libraries are to be equipped with adequate software
infrastructure to congregate, process organize, store and disseminate information in different forms.
This situation calls for the establishment (designing) of Software Portal in such a way to provide
access to information and knowledge to the entire LIS professionals in order to generate new
knowledge.

Reference:

 http://scigate.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/training/Tutorials.htm#link1
 http://www.infolibrarian.com/ltec.htm
 JAGDISH (Arora) (2001). Web-based digital resources and services: Trends and
Innovations. CALIBER-2001. Pune: 185-211.
SYNOPSIS

ENROLMENT NO : 1360500659

NAME OF THE STUDENT : NAGARAJU B G

COURSE AND YEAR : Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications

(PGDCA)/2005-2006

PROJECT TITLE : Software Portal for Library and Information science

Professionals

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