Provide a vivid and candid perspective of the already perfected, and fast upcoming revolution in the Academic / Scholarly Communication System;

Impart the knowledge and skills (conceptual as well as technical components) required for strategy formulation for leveraging information technology for the publishing community, information intermediaries, and the information science/technology professionals, so as to equip them to face the challenges proactively and to position themselves at the cutting edge of technology, profession and business;

Portray the potential of Web Technologies and the Internet Information Infrastructure for scholarly communication.

For: The program would be of interest to publishers and the publishing Industry; information vendors and suppliers; content buyers and content sellers; researchers, managers, developers, and users; and information science/technology professionals.

Contents:

New and upcoming publishing models;

Information objects in the digital landscape;

The diminishing supply chains of information;

New services for the Web, The Semantic Web, Multimedia and Multimodal Web;

Perfected as well as the upcoming Architectures, Standards, Protocols, Resources and Formats;

Old Actors - New Roles: Scholars, Publishers, Information Professionals, Journalists and Teachers;

Electronic Publishing in the trade, scholarly communication, E-commerce, digital libraries and distance learning;

New scholarly publishing paradigm - Open Access Publishing and Open Access Archiving;

Institutional Repositories, Author Archives and the Open Archives Initiative - "GNU Eprints" and "DSpace";

Metadata - its usage and interoperability;

Multilingual Systems and translators;

Accessibility; Copyright and other rights issues;

Security, and reliability/quality assurance on the information sources;

Business strategy for E-Publishing;

Change management imperatives.

Mail your queries to
Dr. M. G. Sreekumar : mgsree@iimk.ac.in

For any clarification or further information related to the programme, please contact: -
The MDP Office,
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode,
Kunnamangalam P. O.,
Kozhikode - 673 571, Kerala, India.
Phone: +91-495-2803001-9 Ext. 121
Fax : +91-495-2803010-11
Email: mdp@iimk.ac.in
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