The main aim of these tutorials is to allow participants to become familiar with basic principles of the field and receive technical training in the area of digital libraries, and to make them aware of the potential of digital libraries in the current scenario and also for future generations.

Complete tutorials

24 February 2004
0800-9000	Registration
	Track A	Track B	Track C
0900-1100	Tutorial A1 Finding information through the Internet and the WWW Chair Ms Rebecca McDuff USIS, New Delhi* Prof Paul Nieuwenhuysen Head, Information and Documentation, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)	Tutorial B1 Ontologies and Thesauri Chair Prof. S B Ghosh Chairman, Faculty of Library & Information Sciences, IGNOU, New Delhi Dr Nicola Guarino Laboratory for Applied Ontology, National Research Council, Trento, Italy	Tutorial C1 Institutional repositories Chair Ms Agnes Macquin, Director Resource Centre, Embassy of France, New Delhi Dr T B Rajashekar Associate Chairman, National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
1100-1330	Inaugural address Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Hon'ble President of India
1330-1430	Lunch
1430-1630	Tutorial A2 Build Digital Library Using Open Source Software (GSDL) Chair Dr Mohsen Taufik UNESCO, New Delhi* Prof. Ian H Witten Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand	Tutorial B2 Knowledge Management Systems: development and applications Chair Dr Patrizia Raveggi Cultural Counsellor, Italian Institute of Culture, Italian Embassy Cultural Centre Dr Hsinchun Chen Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Director, Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, Management Information Systems, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA	Tutorial C2 Automatic classification of documents, or the automatic generation of metadata Chair Head, Department of Library and Information Science, DU* Fabrizio Sebastiani Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione,Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
1630-1830	Tutorial A3 Dublin Core Chair Dr Pandey S K Sharma, Senior Vice President, Indian Library Association, & Principal Library and Information Officer, UGC, New Delhi* Dr Stuart Weibel Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, USA	Tutorial B3 Web technologies and persistent information and knowledge repositories (XML, RDF, & Co) Chair Martina Bartel Indo-German Cultural Centre, Gothe Institute, New Delhi Dr Erich Neuhold Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Professor, GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Germany