Achievements

Achievements

• • Initiated and implemented Digital Library of important documents such as technical reports, slides, old publications, audio/video collections, GMRT related drawings available at NCRA/GMRT library.

  • Maintaining group publications of NCRA as well as papers published using GMRT.  Open Source software tools such as MySQL/PHP is used to maintain database of NCRA Publications, Slides collection, Technical Reports collection, GMRT Publications etc. http://ncralib.ncra.tifr.res.in/

  •  Created an educational material for the science day which is held every year on 28th February at NCRA/GMRT. The material contains big posters, which explains in detail, what is Astronomy, Different areas of astronomy, Types of Telescopes, Details about GMRT, National/International activities in Astronomy etc. There are around 42 posters and they are displayed every year during the Science Day. 

  • Initiated institutional repository with DSpace Open Source Digital Library Software. DSPace is an open source software tool for creating digital libraries/institutional repositories/digital repositories/digital archives. Successfully installed and implemented DSpace based repository at NCRA. Currently the repository contains a collection of digital documents of thesis, technical reports, publications, lecture notes, image collection, annual reports etc. The repository is launched during early 2006 and repository is now available to all users through http://ncralib1.ncra.tifr.res.in:8080/jspui. Currently the repository holds around 419 documents with full text access.

  • Initiated audio/video/powerpoint recordings of talks which are delivered at NCRA using an open source software called as "OpenEYA". The software works on Ubuntu Operating System and is easy to install and use. The software supports to record audio,video and powerpoint or black board presentations together. NCRA SIRC has been archiving all the talks that are delivered at NCRA and these talks are archived.

  • Initiated library web site using Drupal an open source content management software. Drupal has been heavily used all over the world one of the popular content management system. Have configure library web site with Drupal which has lot of features such as users can create their own blogs, initiate discussions, participate in poll, write books/reviewes etc. All the features in Drupal are activated in the SIRC web site.

  • Have vast experience on using  Linux Operating System as well as any Open Source software for creating digital libraries/content management system/e-learning systems/library automation. Can initiate Institutional Repository with any open source digital library software. Have vast experience on installation, customization, upgradation, maintenance, administration, customization etc. of any open source software either DSpace/EPrints/FEDORA/Greenstone/DOKS/MyCORE/CDS-Invenio/SOPS/Drupal/Joomla/OpenEYA/Koha etc.

• Initiated converting data from Libsys to Koha open source software. NCRA SIRC holds now all records in Koha where each record is downloaded from Library of Congress to avoid any data loss/mistakes. The Koha is running as a test server currently in NCRA.

• Organized an International Conference "Library and Information Services in Astronomy VI" jointly with IUCAA and NCRA during February 2010.