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Subject: [bytesforall_readers] E-PUBLISHING – The New Digital Frontier
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:59:17 +0000
From: Sunil Abraham <sunil@mahiti.org>
To: Bytesforall Readers <bytesforall_readers@yahoogroups.com>
CC: projects@mahiti.org

Dear Friends,

Please note Free / Open Source Software such as Dspace and GNU E-Prints
is will be covered. Also Open Access Publishing and Open Access
Archiving. Sounds very exciting :)

Thanks,

Sunil

http://intranet.iimk.ac.in/epublishing.htm

E-PUBLISHING – The New Digital Frontier
(Sep. 06-08, 2004)

INTRODUCTION

The current mainstream publication process, scholarly as well as trade,
has been significantly influenced by the endless possibilities offered
by personal computers, Internet, World Wide Web and its suite of
technologies. Electronic-first as opposed to the traditional paper-first
systems has been emerging aggressively, and of course technology offers
the way forward. E-publication offers a way to bring a new equilibrium
to the scholarly publication ecosystem. SGML, RDF, XHTML, XML, XSLT,
Metadata standards, … all go together to revolutionise the movement.
Recent developments such as the OpenURL Framework, CrossRef, DOI …
mostly remarkable efforts from publishers and the scholarly world, offer
a variety of opportunities for e-publishing. Presently there is a fast
growing interest displayed across the world on open publishing
initiatives and open access initiatives towards free and unrestricted
online availability of the scholarly literature, taking advantage of the
latest technology, especially the Internet. The ‘open access’ philosophy
promotes and ensures the free availability of scholarly content on the
public Internet, and it is all set to reverse and entrust the
‘publishing control’ back to the creators of the thought content. The
Internet has also revolutionized businesses across the globe by
streamlining their supply chains, thereby achieving instant (value
added) information access and substantial cost reduction. Yet the
situation is complex as a result of the proliferation of formats, media,
and channels of distribution, changes in copyright laws and intellectual
property practices, and changes in the economics of publishing. The main
objective of today’s business is to develop a working strategy for
developing "agile" systems that are quick and flexible, to respond to
the changing needs of the end user. However, the contention that
“printed books and journals will soon be replaced by electronic
documents that are malleable, mutable and mobile� is a matter of debate
involving the interaction of psychological, sociological, economic,
political, and cultural factors that influence the consumption of
information at large.

FOR

The program would be of interest to publishers and the publishing
Industry; information vendors and suppliers; content buyers and content
sellers; researchers, managers, developers, and users; and information
science/technology professionals.

OBJECTIVES

This programme is designed to:

* Provide a vivid and candid perspective of the already perfected,
and fast upcoming revolution in the Academic / Scholarly
Communication System;

* Impart the knowledge and skills (conceptual as well as technical
components) required for strategy formulation for leveraging
information technology for the publishing community, information
intermediaries, and the information science/technology
professionals, so as to equip them to face the challenges
proactively and to position themselves at the cutting edge of
technology, profession and business;

* Portray the potential of Web Technologies and the Internet
Information Infrastructure for scholarly communication;

COVERAGE

* New and upcoming publishing models;

* Information objects in the digital landscape;

* The diminishing supply chains of information;

* New services for the Web, The Semantic Web, Multimedia and
Multimodal Web;

* Perfected as well as the upcoming Architectures, Standards,
Protocols, Resources and Formats;

* Old Actors - New Roles: Scholars, Publishers, Information
Professionals, Journalists and Teachers;

* Electronic Publishing in the trade, scholarly communication,
E-commerce, digital libraries and distance learning;

* New scholarly publishing paradigm - Open Access Publishing and
Open Access Archiving – Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)
and other major initiatives;

* Institutional Repositories, Author Archives and the Open
Archives Initiative - “GNU Eprints� and “DSpace�;

* Metadata - its usage and interoperability;

* Multilingual Systems and translators;

* Accessibility; Copyright and other rights issues;

* Security, and reliability/quality assurance on the information
sources;

* Business strategy for E-Publishing;

* Change management imperatives

PROGRAMME FACULTY

* Prof. K. Krishna Kumar
Director, IIMK

* Prof. V. Rajaraman
IT adviser, IIMK & IBM Professor of Information Technology
IISc, Bangalore

* Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam
Distinguished Fellow, M.S. Swaminathan
Research Foundation, Chennai

* Dr. T. B. Rajashekar
Associate Chairman, National Center
for Science Information, IISc Bangalore

* Dr. A.R.D. Prasad
Associate Professor, Documentation
Research & Training Center, ISI, Bangalore

* Dr. Saji Gopinath
Associate Professor, IIMK

* Dr. M. Harishankar
Professor, IIMK

* Dr. Radhakrishna Pillai
Associate Professor, IIMK

* Dr. M.K. Nabeel
Lecturer, Academy of Medical Sciences
Kannur, Kerala

* Sh. Ashok Pathak
Manager – Computer Center, IIMK

* Mr. M G Sreekumar
Librarian & Head, Center for
Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL), IIMK

FEE

Category
Residential
Non-Residential
Industry/Corporate
Rs. 12000
Rs. 9000
Government/Academia/NGOs
Rs. 6000
Rs. 4000

For NRIs or Foreigners the participation fee is US $275. The fee is to
be paid by Demand Draft in favour of "Indian Institute of Management
Kozhikode", payable at "Calicut". The fee includes course material,
breakfast, working lunch (and dinner for residential participants).

Payments to IIMK are exempted from deduction of Tax.

COORDINATORS

Mr. M G Sreekumar and Dr. R Radhakrishna Pillai

DATES AND VENUE

This programme will be organized in Calicut during Sep. 06-08, 2004.
Twin sharing accommodation shall be provided to the residential
participants from Sep. 5th, 2004 evening to 8th evening. Single room
accommodation shall be provided at Rs. 750/- extra per day.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

The MDP Office
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
Kunnamangalam (Post),
CALICUT - 673 571, Kerala, India
Phone: +91-495-2809208, 2809116, 2803001
Fax: +91-495-2803010 or 11
Email: mdp@iimk.ac.in
Web.: http://www.iimk.ac.in
Thanks,

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