The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) is going to organize an International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software at its campus in Kerala during November 23 to 28, 2009. To facilitate the workshop, IIMK has come into technical collaboration with Greenstone Support for South Asia, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and UNESCO New Delhi office.
The objective of the Workshop is to propose a six-day long high-end training programme on digital libraries on the open source software 'Greenstone'. The Workshop shall facilitate the participants in creating state-of-the-art digital libraries using the Greenstone open source software, which include software installation, configuration, customization, digitization and other related workflow operations, content development and management, designing and creating standard metadata sets to describe digital objects and encoding it in standard mark-up formats.
Participants attaining the workshop, which will be conducted as a Faculty Development Programme (FDP), are expected to develop professional capacity in their respective countries. Each participant will be provided a PC supplemented with LCD project demos, and will receive a CD-ROM comprising of the latest version of Greenstone Software, other related software packages and faculty presentations.
Registration is open for interested professionals from India and other countries on first-come-first-served basis. Nomination forms duly filled in, along with the Course Fee, should reach the FDP Office at IIMK latest by 12 November 2009.
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