ADINET e-News Digest

No. 24 September 2016

Contents Page no. Coming Next Feb: `World's largest' student tracker @ Shala 2 Asmita Yojna (SAY), a ready database of 25 crore school- going children Elsevier denies it will force SSRN users on to other services 2 Mumbai police diary: In love with books — the other side of 2 men in khaki Online Courses to count towards college degree, but only 3 up to 20% Inform Others! – Career in Knowledge Management 3 Rare Indian Recordings From 1900s Made Available by 4 British Library India is finally on the path of a truly digital nation 5 ‘With thousands of manuscripts left to be rewritten, it is a 5 race against time’ Now, talk to a doctor online 6

Wearable keyboard lets users Tap to type 7 Study Shows Link Between School Librarians and Higher 7 Test Scores Should All Research Papers Be Free? 7 Web 4.0 is coming – electronic agents will have an answer 8 to everything The Wonderful World of Wiki 9 Food for Thought 10

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Coming Next Feb: `World's Purchase of research repository largest' student tracker @ has horrified open access Shala Asmita Yojna (SAY), a advocates who fear acquisition ready database of 25 crore marks attempt to maintain school-going children control over publishing

Come February 2017 and the The publishing giant Elsevier has government will launch probably insisted that it will not force the world's largest student- academics to sign up to its other tracking programme, Shala services in order to use the newly Asmita Yojna (SAY), that will acquired Social Science Research have a ready database of 25 Network (SSRN) repository. crore school-going children. ASMITA is the acronym for All But Elsevier‘s purchase of SSRN School Monitoring, Individual earlier this week, which has Tracing Analysis. dismayed open access advocates, could be the first of many as the The prime minister's office has publisher looks to build up an given the go-ahead for SAY, online network of scholars as an which intends to use Aadhaar alternative to its publishing numbers to track the educational business. development of students, be it their attendance, enrolment, The company did not disclose on dropping out, mid-day meals, what financial terms it had bought toilets and other related SSRN, which acts as a repository parameters like teacher transfers largely for pre-publication papers and learning assessment of in social sciences and humanities children. The initiative will cover and has more than 2 million 15 lakh schools and 77 lakh members. teachers of government and government-aided schools. Link| http://pralhadfyilibraria n.blogspot.in/2016/05/elsevi ―Having common data will help er-denies-it-will-force- deal with the huge loss to the ssrn.html exchequer,― the official said. The software to evaluate the data will Mumbai police diary: In love be developed by National with books — the other side of Informatics Centre on the basis of men in khaki a matrix provided by the Human Resource Development ministry . With the presence of Amar Source | Times of India | 25 Jawan Jyot, the first floor of May 2016 the commissioner’s building in Crawford Market has a special Elsevier denies it will force library only for the use of SSRN users on to other policemen. services

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AS he removed a book from the University Grants Commission, shelf, constable-cum-librarian the apex higher education Satish Kamble proudly said police regulator, sources said, has officials found time from their agreed to factor in scores routine work to bother him to achieved in official online courses look for a particular book. towards total marks scored and transfer credits for them — a With the presence of Amar Jawan move that will mainstream online Jyot, the first floor of the courses and increase their commissioner‘s building in acceptability and credibility in the Crawford Market has a special Indian higher education system. library only for the use of policemen. IPS officer Arun It will also allow students across Patnaik, who integrated the entire institutions in India to take up small books cluster into a library courses which may not be for police officials in 2011-12, available at their institute and added a new dimension to the life also win credit for them. One of several cops with love for condition is that the online books. courses must be one of the 400 plus courses on offer through the From Sherlock Holmes to history government-backed massive open of western philosophy, the library online course (MOOC) platform has books from several genres SWAYAM . such as law and order, management, economics, politics, Link | http://pralhad- international terrorism, fyilibrarian.blogspot.in/2016/ photography, art and culture, 05/online-courses-to-count- spiritual, short stories, self-help towards-college.html and Marathi literature. Inform Others! – Career in Link | http://pralhad- Knowledge Management fyilibrarian.blogspot.in/2016/ 05/in-love-with-books-other- If you think there‘s a necessity to side-of-men-in.html store information in a systematic and presentable matter in the Online Courses to count digital age, consider a career in towards college degree, but knowledge management only up to 20% SWAYAM Platform | UGC to factor Telecom has not been cheaper in online scores towards total than it is today in India, marks and transfer credits for considering all factors. In fact, them our country offers cheaper rates for telecommunication compared NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi to most of the world, and with government is set to make online that, smart phones have become courses count towards the college a necessity. One effect of that is degree that information is available to

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any person with a smart phone knowledge managers who are and internet connectivity at the equipped with the expertise to push of a button. handle the volumes of knowledge – both, the existing and the newly Did you know, however, that generated. With this theme in there are people who work hard mind, education institutions and behind the scenes so that you can other corporations are focussing retrieve accurate information in on digital libraries, and thus very little time? That is the crux enhancing a career option that is of knowledge management. With essential to today‘s world. the power of knowledge an individual and even a country can If you are remotely interested in go places, and when knowledge is this field, you should know that worked upon to make it relevant, working with technology will be a up-to-date and convenient, huge part of your work profile, several opportunities can be since most knowledge is managed created for it. digitally. Even if there are hard bound volumes of information With the onset of the digital age, which may not be digitised for corporations and other small some reason, their storage and companies soon realised the location and retrieval will be necessity of managing knowledge managed on the computer. effectively, and so transform the physical hard bound knowledge Source| http://www.freepres into its more accessible electronic sjournal.in/ counterpart. For that, professionals are needed to Rare Indian Recordings From create secure systems to not only 1900s Made Available by store the knowledge, but also to British Library retrieve it and make it available as easily as possible. This is The British Library has made necessary because creation of available over 1500 rare Indian multiple copies has become very recordings dating from 1900 – easy in this age, and therefore 1940 on its website. Now, we can security becomes an important listen to the first recordings made issue. Whether one talks of by artists like Abdul Karim Khan, collecting information for storing Bai Sundarabai, and Omkarnath and disseminating it, effective Thakur. ―Khan Saheb‖ of the strategies are necessary for Kirana gharana trained singers knowledge management. who went on to become legendary in their own right, like The sector in which a company Sawai Gandharva and Roshanara operates does not matter – Begum. whether finance or science and engineering or health and In this recording, he sings the medicine to education and thumri still famous beyond, all organisations need today, “jamuna ke teer.” His

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student, Roshanara Begum, sings Democratic Alliance government the hori “khelut nandkumar.” is using technologies like mobility, The recordings are a part of the analytics, cloud and the Internet Odeon Collection, a series that of Things to implement the Digital has been digitised by Mumbai India programme that dovetails record collector Suresh with its other initiatives Chandvankar with funding from like Smart Cities and Make in the British Library. They are also India. available at other institutions including the Sangeet Natak On the surface, we get to see Akademy, the National Film tangibles like the government‘s Archive and the American Digital Locker that allows you to Institute of Indian Studies. store important files and lets you authenticate them online with Link | http://pralhad- your Aadhaar number, e-bastas fyilibrarian.blogspot.in/2016/ (‗basta’ is Hindi for satchel), and 05/rare-indian-recordings- the linking of Aadhaar to bank from-1900s-made.html accounts and availing of subsidies. India is finally on the path of a truly digital nation Link | http://pralhad- fyilibrarian.blogspot.in/2016/ I believe it may take many more 05/india-is-finally-on-path-of- years before India becomes a truly.html truly digital nation like Singapore, but we definitely seem to be ‘With thousands of getting there manuscripts left to be rewritten, it is a race The government appears to have against time’ got its Digital India approach right. It‘s imperative that it does ‗Shrutganga‘, the centre of so, given that the Rs.1.3 trillion rewriting Jain manuscripts, programme envisages a plethora nestles on the third floor of Shrut of e-governance services across Ganga Mandir, situated amidst sectors like healthcare, education the hustle and bustle of the and banking, and promises to commercial hub of Kalbadevi. introduce transparency in the Time itself seems to slow down as system, reduce corruption and a dozen men, seated in an achieve inclusive growth. organised sequence on the floor, work themselves into oblivion. I remain optimistic that this will These are no ordinary men, and happen. Here are some reasons. their work, perhaps, is worth a To begin with, building on the million dollars, for these skilled National e-Governance Plan that artists, in this age of ‗one-touch‘ was approved in 2006 under the and ‗single clicks‘, are rewriting Congress regime, the current ancient manuscripts using the Narendra Modi-led National

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methodology of a long- 100,000 healthcare experts from established religious faith. varied branches of medicine from across India. Thousands of manuscripts, are brought here from the libraries of Investors have been quick to take the old town of Patan in Gujarat. note of this innovative startup. Interestingly, these men, wearing Lybrate raised $10.2m from Tiger traditional white robes and Global, Nexus Venture Partners colourful turbans are either and Chairman Emeritus of Tata Maharashtrian or North Indian Sons Ratan Tata in Series A Brahmins, and not Jains. funding in July 2015. It received $1.23 m in seed funding in Link | http://pralhad- August 2014. Lybrate is also fyilibrarian.blogspot.in/2016/ Indian Medical Association‘s 05/with-thousands-of- digital partner and it has launched manuscripts-left-to.html its service on Facebook Messenger‘s bot platform. In Now, talk to a doctor online addition, it recently debuted its integrated healthcare solution Medical consultation app Lybrate Lab+, enabling users to Lybrate crosses 3 million consult doctors online, get downloads. It relies on all suggested lab tests done and forms of communication—text, continue consultation upon voice and video—to allow automatic sharing of reports with seamless interaction between healthcare experts, without doctors and patients breaking the loop.

This is one simple idea which has ―Our medical app allows users to the potential to have lasting discuss any health issue with consequences. We are talking doctors through text, video and about Lybrate, one of India‘s voice chat while keeping their earliest and fast-growing online identity anonymous,‖ Saurabh doctor consultation platform. Its tells FE. ―More than 100,000 founder & CEO, Saurabh Arora, is doctors and health experts from striving to make healthcare varied branches of medicine from accessible in the country and across India are connected to bridge the demand-supply gap of millions of patients through the healthcare experts by seamlessly technology-driven platform. With connecting doctors and patients such a strong network, Lybrate with the help of technology and acts as the world‘s largest OPD.‖ letting them communicate using mobile phones. The health app Link | http://pralhad- has been downloaded over 3 fyilibrarian.blogspot.in/2016/ million times on mobile devices 05/now-talk-to-doctor- since the company launched the online.html platform in January 2015. The platform now also has more than

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Wearable keyboard lets users Study Shows Link Between Tap to type School Librarians and Higher Test Scores The decline of desktop computing and the proliferation of other The members of the South devices that require text input Carolina Association of School mean that alternatives to the Librarians (SCASL) have always traditional keyboard are now known how important school needed. The Tap Strap wearable librarians and library programs keyboard is one such alternative are to student achievement in that works with Bluetooth devices their state; however, they needed and lets users tap on any surface a way to prove it to to type. administrators, teachers, parents, and legislators who were yet to Worn on the hand, the device is be convinced. similar in concept to the AirMouse wearable mouseand the Gest More Information | Click Here gesture control glove. It is designed to produce more outputs than the former, though, Should All Research Papers Be and is more tailored for purpose Free? than the latter. The startup manufacturer behind the device, ―Realistically only scientists at Tap Systems, says it provides really big, well-funded universities "fast, accurate and eyes-free" in the developed world have full typing for iOS and Android access to published research,‖ phones and tablets, Mac and said Michael Eisen, a professor of Windows PCs and smart TVs. genetics, genomics and development at the University of Users pull the Tap Strap onto the California, Berkeley, and a hand like a glove, with holes for longtime champion of open each finger and for the thumb. It access. ―The current system slows can be worn on either the right or science by slowing communication left hand, or one can be worn on of work, slows it by limiting the each hand for two-handed typing. number of people who can access Three taps of the thumb will information and quashes the switch on the Tap Strap and three ability to do the kind of data taps of the ring finger will switch analysis‖ that is possible when it off. articles aren‘t ―sitting on various siloed databases.‖ Link | http://pralhad- fyilibrarian.blogspot.in/2016/ Journal publishers collectively 05/wearable-keyboard-lets- earned $10 billion last year, much users-tap-to-type.html of it from research libraries, which pay annual subscription fees ranging from $2,000 to $35,000 per title if they don‘t buy

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subscriptions of bundled titles, Web 4.0 is the impending state at which cost millions. The largest which all the information companies, like Elsevier, Taylor & converges into a great ball of Francis, Springer and Wiley, benevolent self-aware light, and typically have profit margins of over 30 percent, which they say solves every problem from world is justified because they are peace to will Jon Snow be alive in curators of research, selecting the next season of Game of only the most worthy papers for Thrones? publication. Moreover, they orchestrate the vetting, editing NB This is a viewpoint by Mohnish and archiving of articles. Bahal, digital marketing manager for Vista Rooms. ―The prices have been rising twice as fast as the price of health Digital marketers, futurists, care over the past 20 years, so radicals – everyone is talking there‘s a real scandal there to be about this new coming wave. exposed,‖ said Peter Suber, Before we get into Web 4.0, it is Harvard‘s director of the office of scholarly communication. ―It‘s useful to look back at all the important that Harvard is iterations of the internet: suffering when it has the largest budget of any academic library in Web 1.0: Read-Only Web the world.‖ Web 1.0 lasted from 1989 to Mr. Suber was quick to add, however, that he didn‘t condone 2005. At its inception Tim Ms. Elbaykan‘s guerrilla tactics: Berners-Lee considered the web ―Unlawful access gives open as read-only. The defining aspect access a bad name.‖ of web 1.0 is search, think about Yahoo in the late 1990s! At this Until the system changes, Ms. stage the web‘s role was very Elbakyan said she would continue passive in nature. to distribute journal articles to whoever wants them. Web 2.0: Social Community Paraphrasing part of the United Explosion Nations Charter, she said, ―Everyone has the right to freely 2.0 is the second generation of share in scientific advancement web. This generation was and its benefits.‖ considered as ―read-write web‖. It E Link | Click Here encouraged community, social interaction and user-generated Web 4.0 is coming – electronic content. This generation also agents will have an answer to gave birth to brilliant digital everything platforms. Social media, blogs, Reddit, Wikipedia and Twitter all emerged during this phase.

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Web 3.0: Immersive and day and I‘m here to remind you virtual web that you‘re going to exercise.‖ And you might say, ―I don‘t know Web 3.0 is a recent phenomenon if I want to exercise today,‖ and and we are at the very end of this It‘ll show you a nude profile of generation. Futurists and digital yourself. And you‘ll say, ―You pioneers call this phenomenon as know what, I think I‘m going to ―3D Web or Semantic Web‖. In exercise today.‖ this phase, everything has a digital footprint, including your The 4.0 wave will not just bring house thermostat! 3.0 built a disruption in the way we pathway for brilliant inovations communicate with the web, but such as VR, 360 Videos, real time also change how we perceive the video streaming and Snapchat! web. The only thing certain is that exciting times lie ahead. Are you Web 4.0: Ultra Intelligent prepared for it? Electronic Agents E Link | Click Here Interaction between humans and machines is the driving force behind 4.0. We might still well be The Wonderful World of Wiki in Web 3.0 but 4.0 is coming and Wikipedia has become our "go it‘s coming fast. Facebook to" place on the internet for recently launched Agent M, an information on practically artificial agent on chat. And we anything. Savio D'Souza and are all aware about Siri. Ashutosh Desai tell you about some fantastic tools that can David Burrus, a futurist, says that further improve your wiki you will be able to give your experience. Welcome to the... agent a personality of your choice. It will say to you things Concise Wikis like this: Wikipedia entries can be quite ―Good morning. You‘re flying to exhaustive, often running into Boston today. Take a raincoat, it‘s thousands of words, and filled with details that might not always raining. By the way, that fight be relevant, or sometimes even you were taking, it‘s already been too complex for most users. In cancelled. Don‘t worry about it. such cases, in the browser There was a mechanical. I‘ve address bar, just replace the ―en― already booked you on a new in the link with ―simple― for a one. I‘ll tell you about it on the shorter version of the entry that way to the airport. But remember carries only the most important parts. you‘re going to exercise every

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Videos in Wiki over links, built-in multilanguage search, and you can customize If you use Google's Chrome colour themes, font and layout. browser, go to the Chrome Web Besides the website, you can also Store and install the WikiTube find the Wikiwand app on iOS extension. After this, whenever (Android app coming soon) and you visit a Wikipedia page, the browser extensions for Chrome, plugin automatically extracts Firefox and Safari. Once you start videos that are related to the using Wikiwand, you won't feel topic you are reading and displays like going back to the boring old them right on the same page for interface of Wikipedia. quick access. Source | Times of India | 12 March 2016 Multiple Wiki Pages in a Single Tab FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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