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 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 2 4 S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 Page 1 2 2 2 0 1 6 2 0 1 5 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 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 2 4 S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 Page 2 2 2 2 0 1 6 2 0 1 5 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 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 2 4 S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 Page 3 2 2 2 0 1 6 2 0 1 5 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 A D I N E T e - N e w s D i g e s t N o . 2 4 S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 Page 4 2 2 2 0 1 6 2 0 1 5 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.