Anirban Dutta ¹, Sibsankar Jana ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia (W.B.), IN

Abstract

This write-up represents the fundamentals of SCImago Journal and Country Ranking in terms of its scope, role in scientometrics study, and the important elements of different types of scientometrics indicators. It attempts to achieve some fundamental objectives of scientometrics, like: 1. ensure access to articles published in different R&D literature at national and global level, 2. reflect and represent true picture of scholarly contribution, research, scientific productivity at national and global level, and 3. have an authentic tool/ground for effective, efficient and rigorous evaluation of scholarly works. The SJR2 indicator takes into account not only the prestige of the citing scientific journal but also its closeness to the cited journal using the cosine of the angle between the vectors of the two journals’ co-citation. To eliminate the size effect, the accumulate prestige is divided by the fraction of the journal’s citable documents, thus eliminating the decreasing tendency of this type of indicator and giving meaning to the scores.

Keywords

Academic Literature, Asia, Country Ranking, India, Journal Ranking, Scopus, Scholarly Literature, SCImago.

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Anirban Dutta ¹, Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay ¹

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1 Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741235, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

This work starts with a background study of serendipity, its meaning in the context of information discovery, its interrelation with bibliographic relationships, and the technical possibilities for practical implementation of a relationships based visual navigation in a library discovery interface to achieve serendipitous resource discovery. The methodology for developing the prototype consists of two components – theoretical base and practical steps. The theoretical framework includes an indepth study of the concept of bibliographic relationships as proposed by experts, as reflected in bibliographic data models and as included in bibliographic formats and metadata schemas. The practical sides deal with the application of the theoretical framework in designing a prototype that, in addition to other typical retrieval features, supports visual navigational facility driven by bibliographic relationships. The components, tools and standards of the entire software architecture are all open source and open standards.

Keywords

Bibliographic Relationships, Creative Browsing, Information Visualization, Information Search, Relationship-based Navigation, Serendipity.

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Anirban Dutta ¹, Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani − 741235, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

This paper reports the development of a digital indigenous or aboriginal cultural heritage archive prototype to understand more specifically how to manage cultural heritage resources for local needs, for traditional and indigenous communities, and in libraries, archives, and museums as they seek to manage, preserve, strengthen, develop, and reuse these resources. The tribes who are the earliest inhabitants of India are economically and socially the least advanced, as they live in isolated and self-contained groups, and are distinct culturally and ethnically from mainstream societies. Historically, colonization, ignorance of mainstream societies, etc., have dominated thousands of indigenous cultures that have ceased to exist or have been marginalized to the brink of extinction. This exploratory study is an attempt to find the tools and techniques that can assist in building an information system for indigenous culture. It considers the need for integration of such a system with a library retrieval system, and the prototype includes the indigenous cultural resources of the Rabha tribe of North-East India to illustrate the idea and suggest a prototype based on open source software and open standards.

Keywords

Cultural Heritage, Digital Archive, Indigenous Cultural, Mukurtu, Resource Management, Rabha Tribe, Tribal Culture.

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