Tata Institute of Social Sciences – TISS Mumbai offered .G. Diploma in Digital Library and Information (PGDLIM) with Intake capacity of 50

Admission Eligibility:
Students must have bachelor’s Degree in any discipline ( Arts, Science, Commerce, etc.,).

Medical degrees ( Allopathic, Aurvedic, Homeopathy, Dentistry etc), BSc Nursing, Post BSc Nursing, paramedical and allied health courses like pharmacy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, etc.

Work Experience :
Minimum of 3 years in hospital / public health facilities in the areas of managerial or supervisory position.

Syllabus

DL05-Digital Library Architecture for 2015-2016
Unit-1:

Architecture Overviews, Principles and Types: Distributed, Federated, Service Oriented and Component based Architectures


Unit-2:

Digital Library Components: Identifiers - Handles - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL) Interoperability, Security



Unit-3:

Digital Library Software: Open Source - EPrints, DSpace, Fedora, GSDL and Proprietary/Commercial



Unit-4:

User Interfaces - Multilingual, Personalization and Visualization

DL06-Information Access and Services for 2015- 2016

Unit-1:

Information Access - Data Models, Text and Multimedia - Object retrieval, Querying; E-Governance: Architecture, Language Technologies


Unit-2:

Information Discovery - Open Archives Initiatives (OAI Model), Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH), Open URL, Subject Portals/ Gateways/Virtual Libraries, Web 2.0


Unit-3:

Users and Use of Digital Library - Usability Assessment, Information Literacy; Online Information Services: Search and Retrieval Strategies


Unit-4:

Legal Issues - Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Copyright, Licenses - GNU, Creative Commons, Network, Information and Data Security

DL07-Digital Preservation and Archiving for 2015-16
Unit-1:

Digitization Process: File Formats, Images, Multimedia Formats, Open Standards and Content Migration



Unit-2:

Approaches to Digital Preservation: Policy, Strategy, Tools, Evaluation and Cost Factors


Unit-3:

Preservation Metadata Maintenance Activity (PREMIS) and Preservation Projects


Unit-4:

Archiving: Concepts, Methods and Procedures

Address
Assistant Registrar ( Academics ),
Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
VN Purav Marg, Deonar,
Mumbai – 4000088,
Maharastra.