Regional (Central – 1) workshop on institutional digital repository for national digital library (NDL)

Abstract

The objective of the workshop is to develop awareness about the National Digital Library (NME-ICT Project) of Ministry of HRD among various institutions through the participants and provide hands on training to develop an Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) in each institution. National Digital Library (NDL): The NDL project aims to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. NDL is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for leading vernacular languages (currently Hindi and Bengali). It is being arranged to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently-abled learners. The pilot project is devising a framework suitable for future scale up with respect to content volume and diversity to become a full-blown National Digital Library of India over time. It is being developed at IIT Kharagpur.