6-Day International Workshop on Greenstone at IIMK, 23-28 November 2009

Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) is organizing a six-day International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software at IIM Kozhikode during November 23-28, 2009.

FOR WHOM

The programme would be of interest to librarians, information professionals, IT faculty and software professionals belonging to the Academia, Government and NGOs in India and those from other countries.

OBJECTIVES

The objective of the Workshop is to conduct a 6-day high-end training programme on Digital Libraries on the Open Source Software 'Greenstone' at IIM Kozhikode. Greenstone is a top of the line and internationally renowned Open Source Software system for developing digital libraries, promoted by the New Zealand Digital Library project research group at the University of Waikato. Greenstone is now promoted worldwide, especially among developing countries, by the UNESCO. IIMK hosts the Greenstone Support for South Asia region .

COVERAGE

The Workshop shall facilitate the participants in creating state-of-art digital libraries using the Greenstone Open Source DL software, which include software installation, configuration, customization, digitization and other related workflow operations, content development and management, designing and creating standard metadata sets to describe digital objects and encoding it in standard markup formats

PEDAGOGY

The workshop will be conducted at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) which is equipped with world-class lecture rooms and computing laboratories with high speed Internet link. Each participant will be provided a PC supplemented with LCD projected demos. The pedagogy will be a mix of Lectures, Discussions, Case studies and Hands - on Sessions. Each participant shall also be provided with a CD-ROM comprising of the Greenstone Software, faculty presentations, and other related software packages. Extensive hands-on labs will be a hall mark of this programme.

FEE

For Participants from AICTE approved institutions : Rs. 4,000.00
From Industry/Non-AICTE approved institutions : Rs. 8,000.00

DATE & VENUE

This programme will be held during November 23 - 28, 2009 at IIMK Campus, Kunnamangalam, Calicut. Accommodation will be provided on a twin sharing basis in the IIMK Guest Houses.

LAST DATE

Nomination forms duly endorsed by the Head of the Institution along with DD should reach the FDP Office latest by November 12, 2009. DD will be returned to those who are not selected for the programme.

Programme Director : Dr. M G Sreekumar

The details of the programme, along with the Brochure and the Registration form are available at

http://www.iimk.ac.in/fdp/fdp09/FDP10.php

You can also find the details in the Greenstone Support for South Asia site

http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/DL-Workshop-09.htm

For any further information please feel free to contact our FDP Office (E-Mail : fdp at iimk.ac.in).

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