Prof. Partha Pratim Das

ppd@cse.iitkgp.ac.in, ppd@see.iitkgp.ac.in, partha.p.das@gmail.com

Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,

Head, Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship,

Professor-in-Charge, IIT Kharagpur Research Park, Kolkata,

Joint Principal Investigator, National Digital Library of India Project

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

16 May 2019

NDLI VISION

Build up National Digital Library

of India as a National

Knowledge and Cultural Asset:

The key driving force for

Education, Research, Cultural

heritage, Innovation, and

knowledge-sharing in India

NDLI MISSION

“IT IS HIGH TIME THAT INDIA SPEAKS FOR ITSELF, TO HIGHLIGHT, OFFER AND SHARE ITS OWN CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL, ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE ON ITS OWN TERMS”

To create a 24X7-enabled integrated

ubiquitous digital knowledge source

1 2 To protect and preserve India’s cultural,

academic and scientific heritage

NDLI MOTTO

1 OPEN

2 INCLUSIVE

WINNER mBillionth South Asia Award

2017: in Learning and Education

Category for Android Mobile App

May’15: Metadata Schema & Portal PoC Jul’15: Metadata Curation & QA process set up

Nov’15: Infrastructure set up for Live portal Feb’16: Made Live for CFTIs

Nov’16: IDR Service

Feb’17: Portal opened to all & Mobile App release

Mar’18: IDR Site operational Jun’18: Surrogator Mar’19: UI in 7 Indian languages

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF INFORMATION AND ITS

IMPACT ON SOCIETY:

ROLE OF LIBRARIES IN SOCIETY:

Throughout the course of human history, libraries have been the prime platform for seeking knowledge.

SOCIETAL NEED FOR A KNOWLEDGE PLATFORM

LIBRARIES

ACADEMIC

SCHOOL

PUBLIC

SPECIAL

LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE,

FUNDING, FOOTFALLS

However, with India’s burgeoning population, such institutions are facing constant economical, infrastructural and human resource hurdles.

*http://www.ficci.in/spdocument/20787/FICCI-Indian-Higher-Education.pdf

DIGITAL LIBRARIES: BANE OR BOON?

PRO:

• ADDRESSES INFRASTRUCTURAL LIMITATION

• ALLOWS MULTI-

MODAL LEARNING

• MAKES WAY FOR

KNOWLEDGE CREATION FROM THE CURATION

CON:

• FURTHER DECREASES FOOTFALL

• LACKS ‘HUMAN

TOUCH’

WHAT WILL MAKE A 21ST

CENTURIAN VISIT A LIBRARY?

INTERNET ACCESS

SKILL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

COMPETITIVE EXAM TRAINING

LIKE-MINDED COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS

OPTIMAL MODEL?

Libraries need to undergo a digital transformation whilst still keeping the benefits of having community interactions and intellectual engagement.

Our experience prompts towards a physico-virtual model, which is currently

under implementation as ‘NDLI CLUBS’

SHODHGANGA (Thesis)

DIGITAL LIBRARY

24x7 REMOTE ACCESS

PHYSICAL LEARNER COMMUNITY

PHYSICAL LEARNER COMMUNITY

PHYSICAL LEARNER COMMUNITY

PHYSICAL LEARNER COMMUNITY

SO HOW DID WE GO ABOUT SETTING UP A

DIGITAL LIBRARY BASED ON THE NEEDS OF

MODERN DAY LEARNERS?

GOOGLE VS. NDLI : HOW IS IT DIFFERENT?

This is Shamik.

● Shamik is a 3rd year engineering student. ● Shamik is interested to apply for the PhD position. He

needs references on nanostructured materials to build his paper.

● Shamik has an iPhone7. ● It has Google, YouTube and the NDLI iOS app!

This is Payel.

● Her native language is hindi. Payel is now in class VIII. ● Her final exams are next month. She is particularly scared of Physics. ● Payel has a MOTO-G5 with 4GB RAM. ● It is her pride and joy. ● It has Google, YouTube and the NDLI Android app!

Search Keyword: Magnetism

Results: 2,23,00,000 results

NORMAL SEARCH:

*DATA RECORDED ON 28/11/2018

Search Keyword: Magnetism

Results: 5,06,552 results

Educational level: V-VIII (56 results) Language of choice: Hindi

Search Keyword: Magnetism Search filter: Career/Technical Paper

NDLI SEARCH:

*DATA RECORDED ON 28/11/2018

NDLI WEBSITE: Browse NDLI WEBSITE: Search Result page

MULTI-LINGUAL INTERFACE: BROWSE IN PREFERRED LANGUAGE

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CONTRIBUTORS:

CFTI, State and Central

Universities, R & D Labs, Govt.

Depts, Free Portals,

Publishers, etc.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

The NDLI platform

is for

ALL learners.

SCHOOL COLLEGE

ACADEMICS/ RESEARCHERS

PROFESSIONALS

LIFELONG LEARNERS

EDUPRENEURS

HOW TO REGISTER?

● Registration to NDLI is OPEN FOR ALL.

REGISTRATION TYPE:

● Individual : Register directly

● Institutional: Bulk registration managed by

Institution overseen by authenticated nodal

person as appointed by NDLI.

LOG ON TO : HTTPS://NDL.IITKGP.AC.IN

THE BIG PICTURE

NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY OF INDIA

SWAYAM, SWAYAM Prabha,

GIAN

CREDIT TRANSFER And VIRTUAL

CERTIFICATION (NAD)

Knowledge Repository: Internet & Mobile

Upto 20 credits From MOOCs

School, Certificate, Diploma, UG & PG: Internet

SWAYAM: instrument for self-actualisation

School, UG, PG, Open U, IIT PAL : TV – DTH

SWAYAM Prabha: 32 DTH, 24x7

NOW THAT WE HAVE A TECH SETUP, HOW DO WE CONNECT IT TO COMMUNITIES TO INCREASE

FOOTFALL TO PHYSICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS?

● E-learning environment for schools

● Involving all K-12 Stakeholders

● Single point of access for unified academic

resources

● Aimed at building active learners among

users - NDLI club newsletters, quiz,

workshops on themes like STEM, e-

commerce, IoT etc.

NDLI CLUBS: EDUCATION HUBS FOR ALL

LEARNERS, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE

NDLI CLUBS

● Clubs can provide insights on learning outcomes and cognitive abilities to better curriculum

● Will allow development of concept-based questions modelled on learning behaviour

● Student profiles and performance will allow school management to make better decisions

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SOME NDLI INITIATIVES TO TRANSCEND THE ROLE OF A

DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY…

VIRTUAL LIBRARIES ARE MORE THAN A PASSIVE COLLECTION OF BOOKS...

● Like with all other things digital, users expect a lot more customization and interaction from digital libraries - the digital library hence needs to evolve into a bouquet of services instead of just a storage platform

● Apart from collating data and connecting them meaningfully, the end-success of the library will always lie with its users. NDLI clubs encourages the active involvement of users with the content as well as each other to Learn, Share, Grow.

UNDERSTANDING THE MODERN KNOWLEDGE SEEKER:

● Technology and hence technology-enabled access have led to users becoming virtualized

● As a data aggregator, digital libraries can not only facilitate search and browse, but also bring together content libraries and algorithm libraries to compute big-data solutions remotely and real-time!

● So not only can the library store knowledge for its users, it can also evolve to create/compute knowledge by cross-linking programs with data-sets

SERVICE ARCHITECTURE:

Cloud Storage Data Storage Computer

Server

Compute and Storage Infrastructure

Internal

Cloud AWS

Cloud Computer

(Back-End) Processing

Units

Cloud Setup Interface and Services

Metadata Storage

Structured Attributes Knowledge

Graph Representation

Ontology and Classification

Access

Mechanisms

and Policies

Query Result

(Front-End)

Search-Compute

Query Processing

User-1

User-2

PERSONALIZED LEARNING

Experience Tracking

● To offer customized search results

Multi-lingual Support

● Reduce cognitive load for native use

Personalization

● Customized UI to suit user grade

• Multi-Aspect and Multi-Level Structured

Prediction for Questions

• Knowledge Tracing to estimate the level of knowledge of a student

• Concept Ecosystem for Addressing

Knowledge Gap

• Cognitive Load Index of Concepts

PH-1 PH-2

SURROGATOR

● Makes available pre-print copies of academic

resources that are otherwise unavailable to

learners

● A customizable application that can identify

surrogates for access-restricted publications

in digital libraries

● Surrogator can make a case for the evolution

of specific subject matters through pre-print

indexing and open up a whole new realm of

research

● Application is being tested through NDLI, can

easily be extended to other digital libraries

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3. RESULTS

6. CITATION

4. RESULTS + ACCESS RIGHTS

5. FIND SURROGATES

8. SURROGATES

7. ARTICLES

+RELATED_ARTICLES + CITED_BY

DATA-DRIVEN CANCER RESEARCH

● India currently does not have the

infrastructure for dedicated bio banks to aid medical research

● This prevents the Indian medical system to learn of and from trends to prepare for subsequent treatment

● NDLI has tied up with TATA MEDICAL CENTRE in Kolkata to develop a prototype for bio-banks that will aid cancer-research

CHAVI COMPREHENSIVE DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF CANCER IMAGING

● Dedicated image banking service

● Will provide annotated images with associated information of cancer patients

● Furthering India’s data banking initiatives

● Library migrating to create a database for bio-banks

PRESERVATION

INTERNATIONAL LEARNINGS ON DIGITAL PRESERVATION:

• National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS):

https://nhds.ca/ Canadian memory institutions are working together to find ways to improve access to digital collections and better preserve cultural heritage

• Tour of Gatineau Preservation Centre

• Co-Lab : A collaboration tool used to transcribe, tag,

translate and describe digitized records from the collection. Also, has a number of open challenges in Transcription, Translation, Tagging and Description

• Library of Congress: International Image Interoperability

Framework (IIIF) is the way to go

INTERNATIONAL LEARNINGS ON DIGITAL PRESERVATION:

• National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS):

https://nhds.ca/ Canadian memory institutions are working together to find ways to improve access to digital collections and better preserve cultural heritage

• Tour of Gatineau Preservation Centre

• Co-Lab : A collaboration tool used to transcribe, tag,

translate and describe digitized records from the collection. Also, has a number of open challenges in Transcription, Translation, Tagging and Description

• Library of Congress: International Image Interoperability

Framework (IIIF) is the way to go

NDLI PRESERVATION CENTRE:

• NDLI IS POISED TO SET-UP A PRESERVATION CENTRE

WITH WORLD LIBRARY FOUNDATION We have already started work on digital preservation of the archives of PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY, Kolkata.

2 3 1 DIGITIZE MAKE SEARCHABLE (OCR)

DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS

POLICY + PRIVACY

ACCESS OPTIONS

Open

Full-text available to all (Example: NCERT)

NDLI Users

Full-text available through NDL, not directly from Source (Example: South Asia Archive)

Limited Access

Part of text available but full-text requires authorization by Source authority (Example: IISER, Bhopal)

Subscribed

Full-text available from institutions that have subscribed to the Source (Example: Springer)

Restricted

Full-text access requires authorization by Source authority and separate login to the Source (Example: IIT Jodhpur)

NDLI INFRIGEMENT CASES:

16MAY’16

Satyajit Ray archives

11MAY’17

ECDL Foundation

17MAY’17 DLI

NDLI’S APPROACH TO COPYRIGHTS

● Vast Majority of Metadata on NDLI is not subject to Copyright Restrictions

● NDLI’s Partners share NDLI’s Commitment ● NDLI Asserts No Rights Over its Database of

Metadata and Dedicates its Contributions to the Public Domain

● Users have free and unencumbered access to Metadata

● NDLI strives to provide India with its own geographical definition of copyrights at par with international standards

RIGHTSSTATEMENTS

● NDLI is a member of rightsstatements.org at the Steering Committee level

● Develop standardized copyright summaries for digital libraries

● Facilitate learners with access to knowledge without boundaries

Copyright and Intellectual Property has been a major learning through our two years of operation.

NDLI conducted the National Workshop on Copyright Issues in 2018, in collaboration with imminent IP lawyers, librarians of premier institutes across the nation as well as govt policy makers to come up with a Manual of Copyright Best Practices, the very first of its kind, for India

NATIONAL LICENSING

An initiative by eSS:

● e-ShodhSindhu: Consortium for Higher Education Electronic

Resources

Licensing being negotiated with Publishers

● Institutional License:

Accessible from within designated institutional network: IP filtered

● NDLI Supported License:

Accessible if requested from NDLI: Concurrent use-basis

A GLOBAL PRESENCE

Representatives from National Digital

Library of India regularly participate in both

national and international workshops with

the aim to:

Collaborate with institutions and

organizations that are leaders in the field of

library science and technology

Learn from existing knowledge portals and

integrate key lessons into further

developing NDLI

Share India’s culture, knowledge and

technology inheritance with the world

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NDLI OUTREACH 360

NATIONAL LEVEL POLICY ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

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REJUVENATING THE PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICE

THROUGH DIGITAL REFERENCE SOURCES 3

OCR FOR INDIAN LANGUAGES

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NDLI CLUB

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TRAINING AND REPOSITORY SERVICE 6

1 PAN INDIA WORKSHOPS FOR USERS, INSTITUTES AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS AND INTEGRATION

ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING 7

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