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Beyond Libraries: Innovation for Knowledge Gateways
open source software using GSDL.4. To help participants developpractical skills in the installationand implementation of open sourcesoftware for creation of digitallibraries.
Topics Covered:
1. Digital Library – Introductionand world scenario
2. Planning and dening your
project ( with Greenstone )3. Converting print to digital -tools and process
4. Different le formats
5. Optical Character Recognition6. Metadata Creation
7. GSDL download , conguration
and installation8. Collection building withGLI (GreenStone LibrarianInterface),designing and creatingstandard metadata sets9. Customization using GLI10. Customization using macro
les and style-sheets
11. Home page customization;
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Workshop 1: Building DigitalLibraries using Open SourceSoftware
Building Digital Libraries UsingOpen Source SoftwareThe workshop is aimed at developingcompetencies among professionalsfor building digital libraries,capitalizing on their own resources.The software to be used in theworkshop will provide detailedknowledge about Greenstone DigitalLibrary (GSDL) which is an OpenSource Digital Library Software.Extensive hands-on practicewill ensure that the participantscandeveop prototype digital librariesin their organizations.
Objectives:
1. To familiarize participants with theconcepts of digital library and usageof open source software.2. To facilitate understanding of digitization and practical knowledgeof the digitization process.3. To offer hands-on-practice fordeveloping digital libraries and using
 
Beyond Libraries: Innovation forKnowledge Gateways
Pre-Conference Workshops
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Collection specic customization
12. Sample Projects for use withGreenstone13. Search and Retrieval exercise 
Who Should Attend:
1. Library and Information professionals2. ICT professionals3. Educators4. Archivists5. Content managers6. Information providers and vendors7. Electronic publishers8. Electronic communities9. Stakeholders in the digitization andknowledge business Participants will be provided CD-ROMscontaining GSDL and DSpace Softwareand other workshop material for furtheruse in their respective organizations.
Language:
English and Arabic
Duration:
4 - 6 April from 8:30 to 1:30(Lunch will be served)
Attendance Requirement:
Ability to use computer and the Internet
Fees:
$ 675 for non-members of SLA$ 600 for SLA MembersWorkshop Presented by Dr.Elizabeth BeaudinManager of International DigitalSpecial Projects - Yale UniversityLibrary 
Elizabeth A. S. Beaudin received herPh.D. From Yale University, writingher thesis on medieval love narra-tives from Muslim Spain. She hastaught language and literature courses
at Faireld University and Yale. Dr.
Beaudin is also a systems architectwith 20 years of information technol-ogy experience, during which timeshe has developed both academic andadministrative systems in a universityenvironment. Her academic back-ground helps balance the demands of technical architecture design with thescholar’s needs for useable content.Dr. Beaudin’s work on the recentOACIS project included developingthe software, interface, and technicalcommunications for a new electronicunion catalog.Beaudin is project manager for twogranted projects at Yale University Li-brary -- Project AMEEL and Iraq ReC-ollection -- that will create a scalabledigital repository on the Middle East.Dr. Beaudin is currently Manager of International Digital Special Projects,Yale University.
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Workshop 2: Library 2.0:Applications and Strategies
This workshop is aimed atintroducing the concepts andapplications of Library 2.0.Hands-on practice will provide LISprofessionals with practical skillsin the applications of Web secondgeneration
Goals:
1. Introducing the concepts of Library 2.02. Developing hands-oncapabilities for using and applyinglibrary 2.0 tools3. Developing skills in marketinginformation services using library2.04. Building social virtual networks,based on Library 2.0
Main Areas:
1. Library 2.0: introduction andconcepts2. Social networking programs(e.g. facebook, myspace)3. Wikis and blogs4. RSS Feeds and applications5. Social Bookmarking social andTagging (e.g. folksonomy)
6. video, image and le sharing(e.g. Youtube, ickr)
7. Communication tools (e.g.Skype)7. Practical applications
Who Should Attend:
1. Library and InformationScience professionals2. Information marketingspecialists3. Collection developmentspecialists4. Library and informationscience teachers and students5. E-publishing specialists
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