[Isis-users] GENISIS - BROWSE FEATURE

[Chockalingam Sugumaran]

Thank you Mr. Rajasekharan
C. Sugumaran

On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:35:04 +0530  wrote
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Dear 
Shri Sugumaran/all,

Obviously 
it will work.
You 
can place browsing classifiers such as “1000-1999”, “2000-2999” and so on as 
links on the home page itself, by editing it. If 
you allow your common sense to work well, you can do wonders with Genisis. 
Winisis with Genisis is a wonderful programme. You can add text, image, audio, 
video etc into your collection, develop them into a digital library and get them 
displayed at ease. The advantage of it is that nothing will happen to the 
original documents unlike as in Greenstone or some other applications which 
convert the documents into another format. If something wrong happens in 
between, there is a possibility of losing the original documents if you don’t 
keep them separately right from the original set. Winisis with Genisis does not build the 
collection. It only takes the metadata and works as an interface to display the 
original documents. So 
my remark is that it is the easiest and the most useful prototype digital 
library far useful than any other general digital library application, in a 
sense. But we did not use it properly. That does not mean that Greenstone, 
which I love so much, is bad. It is also another wonder which can be put to many 
potential uses. Every 
application has its own disadvantages. One problem of Winisis-Genisis is that it 
is for the earlier versions of Windows. It does not work on 64 bit computer. 
There are lack of features like 
non-compliance with Unicode, user uploading not possible and such other things 
for Winiss-Genisis.

It 
is my view that many librarians have not been using the potential of many of 
such applications effectively as reasonably possible. In many places, the 
institutional environment remains bad. In some other cases, the librarians did 
not have the ability to use them. In some institutions, they were not exposed to 
the importance and possibilities by senior librarians and library schools. 
Seniors have no chance to learn as Juniors can because of the obvious 
difficulties in going ahead with the technologies that are only a decade or more 
old. Now 
it seems to me that the librarians should keep up with the emerging trends and 
run fast. The technologies have become so simple. A few clicks are enough 
to create so many applications. Greenstone is so easy to use unlike its earlier 
versions. Librarians should go a little ahead too. Content Management Systems 
like “Drupal” and Learning Management Systems like “Moodle” are what librarians 
should familiarize with. Self learning of them is possible with good manuals. 
Many teachers and even computer professionals do not know how to use them. If 
librarians learn and use them, they can become significant partners in education 
– with the help of teachers, but not alone - rather than remaining as mere 
distributors of books in physical form or digital. 

Regards,
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>K 
Rajasekharan
>KILA, Mulagunnathukavu




From: Chockalingam Sugumaran 
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 12:08 AM
To: rajankila at hotmail.com 
Cc: isis-users at iccisis.org 
Subject: Re: GENISIS - BROWSE 
FEATURE

Thankyou Mr. Rajasekharan,
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>I will try your suggestion 
in my database.
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>Ofcourse, Librarians are very much greed in attaining 
their goal
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>Now I am having one more idea by extending your 
suggestion.
>If I am having another extrafield with valaue of 1000-1999 in all 
the records of mfn from 1000 to 1999, I can use the search as "all" and 
"1000-1999" . So the user will browse from mfn 1000 to 1999. 
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>By this 
logic one can attain from a particular mfn to particular mfn, according to their 
user study.
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>Thank you
>C. Sugumaran
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11:07:56 +0530 
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>Dear Shri 
Sugumaran,
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>What I did for browsing the entire collection was that I put a 
word “all” 
>as an indexing term. When the collection being searched with the 
word “all”, the 
>entire documents will be displayed in the order of mfn. 

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>Regards,
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>>K Rajasekharan
>>KILA, 
Mulagunnathukavu
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>From: Chockalingam Sugumaran 
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>To: sureshn at tafe.com 
>Cc: 
isis-users at iccisis.org 
>Subject: Re: [Isis-users] GENISIS - BROWSE 

>FEATURE
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>Thank you for your prompt reply.
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>>When I am 
seeing your 
>screen shots, it is having the search facility. 

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>>My requirement is, if 
>the user does't know any data for 
search, but as he know the document available 
>in the data base, he wants to 
browse the data base from particular mfn to 
>particular mfn. How his approach 
can be satisfied through GENISIS from WINISIS 
>data base through 
network.
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>>Yours
>>C. Sugumaran
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>>Dear 
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>Sugumaran:
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>>We have been successful in doing so. Our 
WinISIS database is 
>being opened out to public (within company) through 
GenISIS and it does have the 
>search facility
>>and works fine. Print 
screen snaps are pasted 
>below.
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>>Regards,
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>>Suresh 
D Nair
>>R&D – TAFE
>>Chenai 

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>>From: 

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>Behalf Of Chockalingam 
Sugumaran
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>>Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 11:43 

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>>Subject: [Isis-users] GENISIS - BROWSE 

>FEATURE
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>>Any genisis users have introduced the browse 
feature. ie 
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>>is it possible to browse the winisis database 
through GENISIS by 
>mentioning the mfn to mfn or from beginning to some 
extent, till user satisfied 
>his 
requirement.
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>>Any body have tried in GENISIS - Any 
suggesting 
>for how to introduce in GENISIS
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>>C. 
Sugumaran
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>>Scientist/ 
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>>C. 
Sugumaran
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>>Scientist / Engr 
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>>Documentation 
Officer,
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>>LPSC / ISRO - 

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>>Trivandrum
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>>email : 
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>C. Sugumaran
>Scientist / Engr 
'SF'
>Documentation Officer,
>LPSC / ISRO - 
Valiamala
>Trivandrum
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>email : c_sugumaran at yahoo.co.in 
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C. Sugumaran
Scientist / Engr 'SF'
Documentation Officer,
LPSC  / ISRO - Valiamala
Trivandrum

email : c_sugumaran at yahoo.co.in ;
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