[Isis-users] First workshop on ABCD in India/Asia

[spinaker]

Congratulations Egbert
you are a pioneer in Asia
500 hundreds applications!! wow

Regards
Ernesto


El 02/06/2011 5:21, Rabisankar Giri escribió:
>
> The national workshop on ABCD has recently been held on May 26-29, 
> 2011 in Birla Institute of Management and Technology (BIMTECH), India. 
> This is the first workshop on ABCD in India even in Asia. The program 
> is jointly organized by BIMTECH and Rangnathan Society for Social 
> Welfare &Library Development (RSSWLD), supported by UNESCO and Indian 
> Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR). BIMTECH with RSSWLD has 
> been organizing a series of knowledge building program on library 
> science based on FLOSS philosophy. This is the fifth in this series. 
> The previous workshops were on the two most popular FLOSS based ILMS 
> [i.e., KOHA and NewGenlib(www.verussolutions.biz 
> <http://www.verussolutions.biz/>) ]in India.
>
> This workshop on ABCD is unique in following sense
>
>    1. About 500 professionals were applied for participating in this
>       workshop. This might be the first workshop for which such a huge
>       application came. Only 50 participants were selected based on
>       their prior experience with ILMS. All the participants were
>       using either any ILMS software or ISIS family software.
>
>    2. India has 28 states and seven union territories (UT). Almost
>       from each state and UT, at least one professional took
>       participation in this workshop. Besides, professionals from
>       neighboring countries of India like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal
>       Bhutan have also participated in this workshop.
>
>    3. The resource person for the workshop was none other than Prof.
>       Egbert deSmet, University of Antwerp, Belgium, one of the
>       developers of ABCD.
>
> Though in India, many of our librarian are using FLOSS based ILMS for 
> managing activities and services of Library (e.g., 
> http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/11555, 
> http://59.176.17.111/, http://www.granthalaya.org/) but, few of us are 
> aware about the development and possibilities with ABCD. Only a very 
> few from India have made some progress with ABCD ( 
> http://124.124.221.16/site/php/index.php).
>
> Unless we attended Prof. Egbert’s workshop in BIMTECH, we could hardly 
> know that we, the library professional can be truly empowered with the 
> enormous possibilities with ABCD. In a real sense ABCD is truly open. 
> In the four days workshop, he taught us every module of ABCD and gave 
> us practical hands on experience with ABCD.
>
> More than this, he has created a wave among the participants with the 
> idea of innovativeness and unlimited possibilities of ABCD. As OSS 
> evangelist, many of us are coping everyday with the issue of data 
> conversion because of variegated underlying structure of different 
> ILMS databases. When he showed us the power mx command and ABCD in 
> data conversion, we were really spell bound.
>
> In simple, Prof. Egbert has just thrown us into a FLOSS knowledge 
> oceangiving only a tiny but powerful ABCD to tide over by igniting our 
> mind. Many of us thus, have already started exploring the ABCD and 
> need the extended collaboration form the ABCD forum family. We also 
> need many of such workshops in different parts of India by experts on 
> ABCD at some gap to contribute positively to the ABCD family.
>
> ABCD also needs to be fully UNICODE compliant at earliest to make it 
> more popular in India as the other two popular ILMS in India namely 
> KOHA and NewGenLib have already did that.
>
> Rabishankar Giri
> Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology
>
> GGS Indraprastha University
>
> http://www.ipu.ac.in/igit/about.html
>
>
>
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