National Digital Library of India Development of National Digital Library of India Towards Building a National Asset WINNER m Billion th South Asia Award 2017: in Learning and Education Category for Android Mobile App NDL: VISION & MISSION Knowledge Sharing With National Digital Library Of Finland N M E I C T : N a t i o n a l M i s s i o n o n E d u c a t i o n T h r o u g h I n f o r m a t i o n a n d C o m m u n i c a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y Prof. PARTHA PRATIM DAS ppd@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in Joint PI, NDL Project, NME-ICT, MHRD Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 04- S E P - 2 0 1 7
NDL India Overview 2
Education System in India India s higher education system is Largest in the world: Over 70 million students Heavily lacks the numbers to accommodate all those who should be educated 3 To educate India through physical infrastructure, we need to build 6 universities and 270 colleges each month for next 20 years FICCI / MHRD Report 2013 Extensive use of ICT is an imperative Quality Content Development SWAYAM MOOCs SWAYAM Prabha NAD National Digital Library of India E-Channels in India Mobile Internet TV
Knowledge Repository: Internet, Mobile Up to 20 credits from MOOCs The Big Picture National Digital Library of India Credit Transfer and Virtual Certification SWAYAM and SWAYAM Prabha School, Certificate, Diploma, UG & PG: Internet SWAYAM: instrument for self-actualisation SWAYAM Prabha: 32 DTH, 24x7 School, UG, PG, Open U, IIT PAL : TV DTH National Digital Initiative in Education
NDL India Vision 5 BUILD UP NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY OF INDIA AS A NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE ASSET THE KEY DRIVING FORCE FOR EDUCATION, RESEARCH, INNOVATION, AND KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY IN INDIA
NDL India Mission 6 TO CREATE A 24X7-ENABLED INTEGRATED NDL AS A UBIQUITOUS DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE SOURCE OF THE NATION CATERING TO IMMERSIVE E-LEARNING FOR ALL LEANERS AT ALL LEVELS IN ALL AREAS TO INITIATE A MOVEMENT FOR INTEGRATED DIGITAL LEARNING ACROSS INDIA TO DEMOCRATIZE EDUCATION IN INDIA
NDL India Motto 7 INCLUSIVE & OPEN
NDL India Objectives 8 Create a 24X7-enabled Infrastructure for NDL with single window search facility To include h/w systems, networks, s/w tools, applications and interoperability standards Harvest IDRs (Institutional Digital Repository) across institutions of the nation to provide integrated access Facilitate select institutes to disseminate existing content and create new digital content Provide support for immersive E-learning environments at multiple levels spanning across All academic levels school to college to university to life-long learning All disciplines Science, Arts, Humanities, Engineering, Medical, Law, and All languages (vernacular) used as medium of instruction. Support interfaces in Indian Languages & for differently abled users
National Digital Library: Service Architecture Content Creation Content Search Learning Content Experience -based Learning Multi- Lingual Content Mobile Apps 9 Authoring Services Acquisition Services Digital Repository Dissemination Services Digital Library Learning Services Personalization Services Localization Services Open Services National Digital Library Content Borrowing Content Access Multifaceted Interface APIs
Presentation Model Not a new library an umbrella Collects and ingests metadata only Presents full-text from source view Provides: Search Browse 10 20/06/2017
Target Users School, College, and University Students Research Scholars Teachers Library Users Professional Users e.g., Legal Community Users Differently-Abled Users Life-long learners 11
Research and Professional Institutions, Central / State University Faculty Publications, ETD (Electronic Thesis & Dissertation): DSc-PhD-Masters- Undergrad, Research Projects Lecture Slides, Videos, Class Notes, Courseware Term Papers, Assignments, Solutions Lab Experiments, Manuals, Case Studies Institutions of School & Higher Education, Boards Question Banks (JEE / GATE / NET / CAT ), Model Answers Books & Periodicals, Open Access Journals, E-Books & Subscribed E- Resource Annual Reports, Project Reports, Convocation, Working Papers, Others Institutional Digital Repository of Contributing Institutes Institutional and Open Contributions. Multi-modal, Multi-faceted Range of Contents Encyclopaedia Dictionaries Directories Others Datasets, Benchmarks, Models, Maps, Software Manuscripts, Painting, Sculpture, Music, Dance, Drama Audio & Video Content
School Vertical Domain Vertical (Medical/ Legal/ ) Competitive Exam Vertical Data Vertical Application Vertical Textbook, Lesson View MCQ / MSQ / App Launcher Content View Architecture Vertical-Specific Custom Interface and Search Content Baseline Generic Interface and Search 13
NDL India Project Status 14
NDL India Status NDL Portal (https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in) Live in Feb 16 with users from selected CFTIs Opened to all in Feb 17 (with release of Mobile App) Daily Hits: ~15K+ User Base Registered: 22M+ Active: 10M Content Items: 10M Sources: 142 Mobile App (Android + Apple): 500K+ download Daily Android Hits: ~25K+ 15
Infrastructure NDL India Status Live portal, Software development, and metadata preparation & ingestion IDR Service for 100 Institutes Disaster Recovery Data Centre Training & Awareness Development IDR Workshops: 20 User Workshops: 8 Indian Language UI (90% population coverage): Hindi & Bengali: Available Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Kannada, Gujarati, Odhiya, Malayalam, Assamese: Currently underway Partner Institutes: Content Partner: ~100 User Partner: 6000+ Regional Partner: 1 16
NDL India Status 17 International Collaborations OECD UNESCO British Library Europeana SpringerNature RightsStatements.org Consortium Exploring FINNA.FI, BASE,
Research NDL India Status NDL Knowledge Graph and Applications Retrieval in Digital Library Enhancing User Experience Development NDL India Virtual Metadata Standard 18 Metadata consistency checker tool / Metadata normalization service Integrated flow automation tool for metadata curation Content identification, acquisition, curation & ingestion processes Processes for metadata and software QA established
Challenges 19
NDL India Challenges 20 Development Users Keeping users engaged Educating library scientists for Digital Library Support processes and infrastructure 24 x 7 / Call Center / Social Media Tracking Legal Issues Copyright, Trademark, Access etc. ICDL, Satyajit Ray, DLI Licensing Plagiarism Deterrence Open Access, Pre-Print Content Sharing (CI s) Data Sharing (for 3 rd party) Sustenance Model Development Research Folksonomical Framework Enhancement of User Experience NDL Ontology and Data Model Knowledge Graph based Recommendation Query Understanding Multimedia Ontology Efficient search with sparse metadata Vertical specific retrieval models Ranking & query structuring for short text retrieval Augmenting video lectures with automatically generated questions Indian Language OCR
Team Prof Partha Pratim Chakrabarti: Thought Leader Prof Partha Pratim Das: Execution Leader Prof Plaban Kumar Bhowmik: Technical Leader Prof Sudeshna Sarkar: Search and NLP Expert Prof Anupam Basu: NLP and DA UI Expert Prof Arobinda Gupta: Networking Expert Prof Subrata Chattopadhyay: Design Expert Prof Mainak Ghosh: Design Expert Prof Sandip Chakraborty: Cyber Security Expert Prof Jiaul Hoque Paik: Pedagogy Expert Dr B Sutradhar: Library Expert Mr Nanda Gopal Chattopadhyay: Project Manager 21
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