CONFERENCE DETAILS
The Conference track of READIT invites submission of papers to deliberate in the following areas:
• Issues in Information Handling & Sharing
• Information science in IT
• Cloud Computing for Libraries
• Semantic Web for knowledge creation
• Information access tools & techniques
• Towards Future infrastructure for Libraries
Contributed papers on any of the above mentioned sub-topics are invited. A separate poster session is planned during the conference for the contributed papers. A souvenir containing abstracts of the invited talks/ contributed papers will be brought out at the time of the conference. It is also proposed to bring out a proceeding of the conference in CD format. Papers received after the due date will not be included in the proceedings.
LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS
S.NO |
Name |
Designation with their Organization |
1 |
Dr. Sundeep Oberoi |
Global Head, Enterprise Security and Risk Management, TCS |
2 |
Dr. Jagdish Arora |
Director, INFLIBNET, |
3 |
Prof. I.K. Ravichandra Rao |
Professor (Retd.,) DRTC, ISI, Bengaluru |
4 |
Prof. A.R.D. Prasad |
Prof & Head, DRTC, ISI, Bengaluru |
5 |
Dr. J.K. Suresh |
Former Vice-President, INFOSYS |
6 |
Prof. G. Sivakumar |
Professor, IIT, Mumbai |
7 |
Prof. T.V. Gopal |
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Anna University |
8 |
Prof. R. Sevukan |
H.O.D., DLIS, Pondicherry University |
9 |
Dr. G. Mahesh |
Principal Scientist, NISCAIR, New Delhi |
10 |
Shri Narayanankutty |
Head, Library, VSSC |
11 |
Dr. G. Thamaraiselvi |
Librarian, NIT, Trichy |
12 |
Shri Darwin Thangappan |
MD & CEO, ASIR Technologies |
Who should participate?
The conference is expected to attract participation from information scientists and professionals from a wide range of disciplines, including those involved in Digital Library research and practice, from all over the country. The following categories of professionals are expected to benefit from the conference.
• Professionals from public, academic, and special libraries
• Information technology professionals
• Knowledge workers
• Policy-makers
• Educationists
• Content and knowledge managers
• Information providers and vendors
• Electronic publishing and virtual electronic communities
• Stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business
• Research Scholars & Students
Venue
The Conference will be held at IGCAR, Kalpakkam, which is located 75 km south of Chennai, the Capital of Tamil Nadu. It is also 10 km south of Mamallapuram, a fabulous South Indian tourist spot which is famous for architecture and sculpture skills of Pallava Dynasty. Kalpakkam is well connected by road and situated in the middle of Chennai to Pondicherry ECR scenic beauty highway and surrounded by temple cities like Kancheepuram & Thirukazhukundram and Vedanthankal bird sanctuary.
How to reach?
It takes about 3 hours to reach Kalpakkam from Chennai by State Transport Bus and about 2 hours by Taxi. Chennai has an airport terminal at Meenambakkam. All north bound trains are terminated at Chennai Central Railway Station and south bound trains at Egmore Railway Station. The State Transport Buses for Kalpakkam (Route No. 108, 119, 118, 188) starts from Koyambedu bus stand.
Exhibition
As a part of this conference an exhibition of latest products and publications is also arranged.
Accommodation
Accommodation for out station participants can be arranged on nominal payment to a limited number in the DAE Guest House/Hostels at Kalpakkam. For others accommodation can be arranged in the hotels at Mamallapuram which is a popular tourist centre, about 10 km north of Kalpakkam on payment basis.
Registration
Registration Closed.