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Congratulations Egbert<br>
you are a pioneer in Asia<br>
500 hundreds applications!! wow<br>
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Regards<br>
Ernesto<br>
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El 02/06/2011 5:21, Rabisankar Giri escribió:
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"
class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New
Roman">The national workshop on ABCD has recently
been held on May 26-29, 2011 in Birla Institute of
Management and Technology (BIMTECH), <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
This is the first workshop on ABCD in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> even in <st1:place
w:st="on">Asia</st1:place>. 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(</font><cite><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-IN"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.verussolutions.biz/">www.verussolutions.biz</a><font
color="#0e774a">) ]</font></span></cite><font
face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-IN"> </span>in
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>.</font></font>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"
class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">This
workshop on ABCD is unique in following sense</font>
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size="3">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
<st1:place w:st="on">ISIS</st1:place> family
software.</font></li>
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class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New
Roman"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
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 <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
like <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sri Lanka</st1:country-region>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
Nepal Bhutan have also participated in this
workshop.</font></font></li>
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class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="3">The resource person for the workshop was
none other than Prof. Egbert deSmet, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of
Antwerp</st1:city>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
one of the developers of ABCD. </font></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt
0.25in;" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3">Though in India, many
of our librarian are using FLOSS based ILMS for
managing activities and services of Library (e.g., </font><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/11555"><font
color="#800080" face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/11555</font></a><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"> , </font><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://59.176.17.111/"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://59.176.17.111/</font></a><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"> , </font><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.granthalaya.org/"><font face="Times
New Roman" size="3">http://www.granthalaya.org/</font></a><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"> ) but, few of us are
aware about the development and possibilities with
ABCD. Only a very few from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
have made some progress with ABCD ( </font><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://124.124.221.16/site/php/index.php"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://124.124.221.16/site/php/index.php</font></a><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"> ). </font>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt
0.25in;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="3">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.</font>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt
0.25in;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="3">More than this, he has created a wave among
the participants with the idea of innovativeness and
unlimited possibilities of ABCD. As <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">OSS</st1:city></st1:place>
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.</font>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt
0.25in;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="3">In simple, Prof. Egbert has just thrown us
into a FLOSS knowledge ocean<span style=""> </span>giving
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.</font>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt
0.25in;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="3">ABCD also needs to be fully UNICODE compliant
at earliest to make it more popular in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> as the other
two popular ILMS in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
namely KOHA and NewGenLib have already did that.</font>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt
0.25in;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0,
127); font-weight: bold;">Rabishankar Giri</span><br
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127); font-weight: bold;">Indira
Gandhi Institute of Technology</span>
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0.25in;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0,
127); font-weight: bold;">GGS Indraprastha University</span>
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127); font-weight: bold;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ipu.ac.in/igit/about.html">http://www.ipu.ac.in/igit/about.html</a></span>
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