NDLI: Foreword

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	The 21st Century COE (Center Of Excellence) programs were one of the major projects launched by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan in 2002. Our program "Informatics Research Center for Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure," comprised of members from the Graduate School of Informatics and Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, both in Kyoto University, was selected as one of such programs. This symposium will report our activities in the first two years out of a total five-year program, and receive comments, suggestions, and criticism from the audience, in particular from the evaluators of this program. Our project aims at building infrastructure of the knowledge society, which is considered to be a mature form of the current so-called information society. For this, it is important to study how to transform the abundant information into knowledge that can be easily recognized, shared, and utilized by the people living in this society. We will contribute to this end by integrating research activities of our group, which were traditionally centered around such topics as media, databases, Webs, field work, and basic theories. To execute this, we formed four groups: (1) real world media processing for knowledge society infrastructure; (2) cognitive science and human interfaces for knowledge society infrastructure; (3) knowledge sharing, retrieval, and distribution technologies for knowledge society infrastructure; and (4) algorithms, modeling, and theory for knowledge society infrastructure. In addition to enhancement of research activities, the 21st century COE program encourages the creation of new organizational structures for facilitating academic and industrial collaboration, regional coordination, international exchanges, promotion of intellectual property, and fostering young researchers to take the initiative and perform innovative work. In this symposium, we report our efforts in these directions.
File Size	187528
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769521509
DOI	10.1109/ICKS.2004.1313396
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2004-03-01
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Educational programs Databases Humans Intellectual property Collaborative work Educational institutions International collaboration Cognitive science Informatics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in