National Digital Library of India (NDLI)Towards Building a National Asset

Nanda Gopal Chattopadhyay (nandgc@gmail.com)Ananya Guha (guhananya@gmail.com)

Rajendra Singh (rajendra.singh1310@gmail.com)

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TEQIP-III Training ProgramJune 10, 2019

INDIA’S NEEDQuality education for ANYONE, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE

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*http:/ / www.ficci.in/ spdocument/ 20787/ FICCI-Indian-Higher-Education.pdf

• Over 7 Cr. students in our higher education system:Largest in the world

[Source: FICCI Report 2013 “Higher Education in India: Vision 2030”]

• Through brick and mortar institutions alone, we need to build 6 universities and 270 colleges each and every month for 20 years: Impractical

[Source: FICCI Report 2013 “Higher Education in India: Vision 2030”]

• Need effective use of Digital technology to handle the situation

• MHRD acted timely through NMEICT- Large volume of e-Contents got created- Options like SWAYAM, SWAYAM Prabha, ePathshala, eAcharya

emerging- Various nation-wide digital infrastructure like BADAL coming up- Virtual University vision is going to be realized

Overview

Content

Development

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Digit al Learning: The Scenar io

An integrated, Open & Inclusive, National Digital Library of India

is an enabler of the Digital Learning eco-system

NDLI VISION

Build up National Digital Library of India as a National Knowledge and Cultural Asset:

The key driving force for Education, Research, Cultural heritage, Innovation, and knowledge-sharing in India

NDLI MISSION

“IT IS HIGH TIME THAT INDIA SPEAKS FOR ITSELF, TO HIGHLIGHT, OFFER AND SHARE ITS OWN CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL, ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE ON ITS OWN TERMS”

To create a 24X7-enabled integrated ubiquitous digital knowledge source

1 2To protect and preserve India’s cultural, academic and scientific heritage

NDLI MOTTO

1 OPEN

2 INCLUSIVE

WINNER mBillionth South Asia Award 2017: in Learning and Education Category for Android Mobile App

Object ive• Create a 24X7-enabled Umbrella Digital Library

Infrastructure with single window search and access facility

• Cover all academic levels, all disciplines and all Indian languages used as medium of instruction

• Harvest IDRs (Institutional Digital Repository) across institutions of the nation to provide integrated access

• Facilitate institutes to disseminate e-contents• Provide User Interface in Indian languages• Provide User Interface for differently abled

users• Provide support for immersive E-learning

environments at multiple levels• Initiate a movement to inculcate digital learning

culture

METADATA: THE HEART OF NDLI

● Metadata Is primarily textual information relating to Content.

● It Includes information that enables users to identify, discover, search, browse, interpret, or manage Content

● Includes hyperlinks that direct users to Content on the Source

● May include an expressive description of the Content

NOTE: NDLI does not store all contents, it only ingests metadata for Search & Browse. The content (Full-text) is delivered from Source.

PRESENTATION MODELS

● Not a new library – an umbrella● Collects and inges ts metadata

only● Pres ents full-text from s ource

view

Provides:● Search● Brows e

RANGE OF CONTENTS

Institutional Digital Repository of

Contributing Institutes

Institutions of School & Higher Education, Boards

Lecture Slides,Videos, Class Notes, Courseware

Term Papers, Assignments, Solutions

Lab Experiments, Manuals, Case Studies

Question Banks (JEE / GATE / NET / CAT ), Model Answers

Institutional and Open Contributions.Multi-modal, Multi-faceted

Datasets,Benchmarks, Models, Maps, Software

Manuscripts, Painting, Sculpture, Music, Dance, Drama

Audio & VideoContent

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Faculty Publications, ETD(Electronic Thesis & Dissertation): DSc-PhD-Masters-Undergrad, Research Projects

Books & Periodicals, Open Access Journals , E-Books & Subscribed E-Resource

Annual Reports, Project Reports,Convocation, Working Papers,Others

Encyclopaedia, DictionariesDirectories Others

Total: 212

• School Boards: 14• Educational & Research

Institutes (IDR): 115• NMEICT Projects: 5• Competitive Exams: 22• Medical: 7• Legal: 4• Global Educational Portals: 15• Publishers: 7• Others: 47

Som e Cur rent Cont ent Cont ibut ors

WHO IS THIS FOR?

The NDLI platform is for ALL learners.

SCHOOL

COLLEGE PROFESSIONALS

LIFELONG LEARNERS

Uniqueness and Reach ● Single window mult i-lingual search and access

○ No need to visit individual sites

● Covers ent ire spectrum of learners○ Primary to highest level including life-long learners○ All domains of educat ion

● Mult i-media contents

● User interface for different ly-abled users

● Personalizat ion○ Search results filtered/ ranked as per user profile

● Collaborat ive learning environment○ Enabler for virtual inst itut ion/cert ificat ion

● Nat ional license○ Democrat izat ion of educat ion

• Participating Institutes: 10,000+• User Base

- Registered: 50 lakh+- Active: 20 lakh+

• Mobile App Downloads: 10 lakh+• Average daily hits:

- Website: ~30k- Mobile App: ~20k

• Content- Items: 299 lakh+- Sources: 212- IDR Sources: 115

WINNER mBillionth

South Asia Award 2017: in Learning and Education Category for Android Mobile App

CONTENT VIEW ARCHITECTUREVertical-Specific Custom Interface and Search

Generic Interface and Search

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NDLI INITIATIVES AND FUTURE SCOPE

NATIONAL LEVEL POLICY ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

2

REJUVENATING THE PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICE THROUGH DIGITAL REFERENCE SOURCES

3

OCR FOR INDIAN LANGUAGES4

NDLI READER’S CLUB5

TRAINING AND REPOSITORY SERVICE6

1 PAN INDIA WORKSHOPS FOR USERS, INSTITUTES AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS AND INTEGRATION ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING

7

The Big Pict ure

NATIONALDIGITALLIBRARYOF INDIA

SWAYAM,SWAYAM Prabha,GIAN

CREDIT TRANSFERAnd VIRTUAL

CERTIFICATION(NAD)

Knowledge Repository:Internet & Mobile

Upto 20 creditsFrom MOOCs

School, Certif icate, Diploma, UG & PG:Internet

SWAYAM:instrument for self-actualisation

School, UG, PG, Open U, IIT PAL :TV – DTH

SWAYAM Prabha:32 DTH, 24x7

NDLI Dedicated to the Nation on 19-June 2018

By Shri Prakash JavadekarHon’ble ex-Minister of HRD

THE INTERFACEHTTPS:/ /WWW.NDL.GOV.INHTTPS:/ /NDL.IITKGP.AC.IN

The NDLI portal is available as Website, android and iOS mobile app and on UMANG.

NDLI WEBSITE: Landing page

NDLI M-SITE:Landing page

UMANG APP

NDLI: The Library

NDLI: Landing Page

HOW TO REGISTER?

● Registration to NDLI is OPEN FOR ALL

REGISTRATION TYPE:

● Individual : Register directly ● Bulk: It is available for Institution handled by an

nodal person nominated by the Institution and the process is facilitated by NDLI

VISIT: HTTPS:/ /WWW.NDL.GOV.IN

orHTTPS:/ /NDL.IITKGP.AC.IN

or

INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION PROCESS

1. Go to https:/ /www.ndl.gov.in or https:/ / ndl.iitkgp.ac.in

2. Register (free) using email ID

INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION PROCESS

3. An automated mail goes to e-mail id of the Registrant with a link

3. Registrant needs to click the link to activate and complete registration

5. Login and enjoy NDLI on the web

6. Alternatively, download the NDLI mobile app

BULKREGISTRATION

PROCESS

1. Institute identifies a Nodal person

2. Nodal person lists all users of the Institute (First Name, Last Name and e-mail id) in a CSV file and sends the file to NDLI at ndl-support@iitkgp.ac.in

3. NDLI Support person uploads the CSV file in NDLI site

4. Automated mail goes to each Registrant with a link

5. Registrant clicks the link to activate and complete his/her registration

NDLI WEBSITE: Browse

NDLI WEBSITE: Search

REFINE SEARCH: By author (168 results)

REFINE SEARCH: By content type : video (323 results)

REFINE SEARCH: By source: MIT Open Courseware (23 results)

REFINE SEARCH: By language: Malayalam (4 results)

ACCESS OPTIONSOpen

Full-text available to all (Example: NCERT)

NDLI Users

Full-text available through NDL, not directly from Source (Example: South As ia Archive)

Limited Access

Part of text available but full-text requires authorization by Source authority (Example: IISER, Bhopal)

Subscribed

Full-text available from ins titutions that have s ubs cribed to the Source (Example: Springer)

Restricted

Full-text acces s requires authorization by Source authority and s eparate login to the Source (Example: IIT J odhpur)

REFINE SEARCH: By Access Restriction

FULL-TEXT: CONTENT PAGE - Sample 1

FULL-TEXT: FURTHER PAGES - Sample 1

FULL-TEXT: METADATA PAGE - Sample 1

FULL-TEXT: CONTENT PAGE - Sample 2

FULL-TEXT: ACTUAL PAGE - Sample 2

NDLI BENGALI

NDLI HINDI

NDLI GUJARATI

INDIAN LINGUAL INTERFACE: EXPLORE IN PREFERRED LANGUAGE

Kannada

Tamil

Marathi

Oriya

INDIAN LINGUAL INTERFACE: EXPLORE IN PREFERRED LANGUAGE

Cont ent Acquisit ion & Access Model: IDR

Open Limited Subscribed Authorized NDLI

Access is controlled by the respective institutions

No restriction of usage => Enhances visibility, usage and citationLimited => Embargo is set by the institute to limited accessAuthorized => Embargo is set by the institute in terms of access

Cont ent Acquisit ion & Access Model: Publishers

Open Limited Subscribed Authorized NDLI

Access is controlled by National or Institutional policies

No restriction of usage => Enhances visibility, usage and citationSubscribed => Access is controlled by subscription policy the user belongs to

NDLI => Access is granted for NDLI users only

Cont ent Acquisit ion & Access Model: Ot hers

Open Limited Subscribed Authorized NDLI

Content Available

Computer science, information & general works 4,914,005

History & geography 487,657

Language 88,959

Literature & rhetoric 584,272

Natural sciences & mathematics 7,784,050

Philosophy & psychology 537,627

Religion 203,042

Social sciences 2,054,220

Technology 9,996,007

The arts; fine & decorative arts 282,709

Some Major Content Contributors

WORLD eBOOK LIBRARY 4,021,805PubMed Central 3,879,626IEEE Xplore Digital Library 3,314,809WHO-Global Index Medicus 2,628,502SpringerLink 2,139,729CiteSeerX 1,992,220

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) 1,850,100Paperity 1,635,663arXiv.org 1,460,277State Library of Massachusetts 707,378CERN Document Server 488,358JAMA Network 447,825ACM Digital Library 432,387British Medical Journal (The BMJ) 404,429Internet Archive :: JSTOR 260,094

Internet Archive :: NASA Technical Reports Server 240,578CORE 234,046EDP Sciences 230,150

Librivox 206,672Inflibnet :: Shodhganga 201,193Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) 188,242Science Supercourse 176,968Project Euclid 174,004EconStor 168,500OMICS International 161,095Internet Archive :: Library of Congress 155,166Internet Archive :: National Agricultural Library 143,962MDPI 126,532CSSSC EAP :: Jugantar 124,618Springer :: E-books 105,362OECD iLibrary 102,017Taylor & Francis Online 100,877

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection 94,867Indian Academy of Sciences 88,596Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India) 86,607OpenStax CNX 78,541Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) 77,119

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 72,049CSSSC EAP :: Amrita Bazar Patrika 62,632Project Gutenberg 55,123MedIND 52,578PBS LearningMedia 50,575Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 49,373WatchKnowLearn 44,278IISc :: Institutional Repository 40,120

CSIR :: National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources 38,605StemEZ 34,370

West Bengal Public Library Network 30,654South Asia Archive 29,969

The Indian Law Institute, New Delhi 27,987University of Oregon :: Institutional Repository 20,943NPTEL 10,335Indiana University :: Digital Library of the Commons 10,321Annual Reviews 9,360Bloomsbury 9,221Khan Academy 6,191Microsoft Research 5,005NCERT 4,511NDLI Tutor :: IIT JEE 3,000Sikkim University 2,699MIT OpenCourseWare 2,466Spoken Tutorial 719PhET Interactive Simulations 131Satyajit Ray Society 38Joint Admission Board of IITs 37

Teacher Researcher

Self-LearnerAdministrator

Learning Material

Flipped Mode Instruction

AssessmentResearch

Publications

Datasets

Tools & Softwares

Casual Reading

Institutional Nodal Person

Exploratory Search

Partnering in Growth

NDLI in Educat ional Cont ext

NDLI RESEARCH

Appl icat ion Domains in NDL

Data Curation

Search & Recommendation

User Data Analytics

Enhancing User Experience

System Analytics

NDLI Research Areas

Data Curation

Data CurationAuthor Normalization

Already normalized author data

Automatic Metadata Extraction

LRT identification

Subject Classification

Grade Level Prediction

Fine-grained metadata

Duplicate/Surrogate Detection

Metadata Knowledge

Graph

Data Curation Workflow

Research on Dat a Curat ion

Search & Recommendation

Search & Recommendation

Multi-lingual retrieval model

Search under sparse metadata

Learning-to-rank

Benchmark data

Query Intent Analysis

Metadata Knowledge

Graph

Resource Recommendation

User Experience

Tracking

Vertical Specific Retrieval Model

Research on Search & Recom m endat ion

Enhancing User Experience

Enhancing User Experience

Integrated Learning Material

Automatic Assessment in

Learning Resources

NDL User Interface Evaluation

Augmenting Poor Quality Resource

Interface for Specially-abled

User Data Analytics

Eye-Gaze-Tracking

Online Community +

LM

Research on Enhancing User Exper ience

User Data Analytics

User Data Analytics

Generating Retrieval

Benchmark Data

Personalized Search and

recommendation

Adaptive User Interface

Personalized Notifications

Retrievability Analysis

Research on User Dat a Analyt ics

NDLI & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF LIBRARY

WHAT WILL MAKE A 21ST

CENTURIAN VISIT A LIBRARY?

INTERNET ACCESS

SKILL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

COMPETITIVE EXAM TRAINING

LIKE-MINDED COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS

OPTIMAL MODEL?

Libraries need to undergo a digital transformation whilst still keeping the benefits of having community interactions and intellectual engagement.

Our experience prompts towards a physico-vir t ual model, which is currently

under implementation as ‘NDLI CLUBS’

SHODHGANGA(Thesis)

DIGITAL LIBRARY24x7 REMOTE

ACCESS

PHYSICAL LEARNER COMMUNITY

PHYSICAL LEARNER COMMUNITY

PHYSICAL LEARNER COMMUNITY

PHYSICAL LEARNER COMMUNITY

NDLI Club: Vision

Realize the

Read India Mission by inculcating reading and content sharing habit among learners

LEARN

Community

NDLI Club Mission

Dissemination: Learn Participation: Share Creation: Grow

NDLI –Club: Plat form Archit ect ure

NDLI Core

NDLI Club

Educational Institute

NDLI Core

NDLI Club Governance

Institute Level Club

Theme specific activities

Them at ic Areas

● Reading and Recreation ● Academic Development● Career Development● Capacity Building

Act ivit ies

● Reading Challenge● Lecture Series● Story Talk Session● Go Fish Session ● Write On Session● Role Play Session● Draw Session

● Quiz● Hackathon● Question / Solution

Creation● Translation● Annotation● Digitization

Reward Mechanism

● Participation in activities earn points ● Points vary on type of activities ● Accumulated points based periodic rewards

Club St ruct ure

● Each Club tied to an Institution○ Students, teachers, librarian, staff, administrators,

parents/guardians of students may be members● Club Structure○ Patron: Head of the Institute ○ President: Teacher In-charge of Club○ Secretary: Student In-charge of Club○ Executive Members: Volunteering students○ Members: Volunteering students, teachers, librarian, staff,

administrators

Event Creat ion & Organizat ion● NDLI Club portal contains a repository of Collections for conducting various Activities around the Thematic areas. These Collections are formed using NDLI contents. ● NDLI Club portal also contains a repository of Activities using which the respective Club executives need to create and schedule Events● Events then will be conducted at individual Clubs respective Club executives● Events may be physical (off line) or online (through the portal)● Some events may involve multiple Clubs which may be at regional level or national level● All outputs/outcomes of each Event shall also be uploaded/captured in the portal● Dashboard for different level of stakeholders are available in portal for monitoring of Club functioning

Club Por t al Key Funct ionalit ies

● Club Registration● Club Member Registration● Club Page● Collection Creation● Activity Creation● Event Creation● Event Conduction● Event Outcome Upload● Dashboard for various levels of Stakeholders● Platform Support for Online Events

Club Council

MHRD & NDLI

AICTE UGC CBSE

Regional Lead

Executive Leads

Regional Lead

Executive Leads

Regional Lead

Executive Leads

Executive Lead

Institutes/Clubs

Executive Lead

Institutes/Clubs

Executive Lead

Institutes/Clubs

National Nodal AgenciesChief Manager (CM)Regional Managers (RM)

Regional Leads (RL)Executive Leads (EL)

Executive LeadsInstitutes/Clubs`

Governing Body

Organizat ion Form at ion t o run t he Council

● Bottom up approach● Executive Leads coming up from Club members

of the Institutions based on Reward Points earned in activities carried out at Club

● Regional Leads coming up from Executive Leads based on Reward Points earned from number of Clubs set up and performance of these Clubs

● Initial seeding operation by Management teams from National Nodal Agencies (AICTE, UGC, CBSE etc.) or NDLI Executive

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