Biography:Shalini Urs

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Shalini R. Urs
Dr. Shalini Urs.jpg
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Mysore
Known forVidyanidhi, ISIM, MYRA

Shalini R. Urs is an information scientist who pioneered the digital library movement in India, especially the Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETD) and was awarded the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations- Adobe Leadership award in 2004 for her initiatives.[1] She built a multilingual online digital library called Vidyanidhi in 2000, long before the digital era captured the imagination of many in India.[2]

Career

Dr. Urs started her career with University of Mysore in 1976 [3] and was a Fulbright scholar and a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, USA during 2000 -2001.[4] She was awarded the Mortenson Distinguished Lecturer 2010 by the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA and was invited to deliver their annual lecture series.[5]

Research

Her areas of research include Information Retrieval, Ontology Development, and Social Media and Network Analysis. As a leading digital library expert she was commissioned to carry out studies and projects by UNESCO, Educational Development Council, Washington, DC, USA and others. Some of her well known projects/studies include the following:

  • 1. UNESCO Guide to Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs),2002 [6]
  • 2. UNESCO Directory of Open Access Education and Training Opportunities, 2011 [7]
  • 3. UNESCO sponsored Training Program called UN4IM Training Library and Information Professionals in India.[8]
  • 4. UNESCO Workshop on eBooks, ISiM. September 2004 [8]
  • 5. Digital Library of Learning Educational Development Council, Washington, DC, USA Project the Dot-EDU digital library of audiovisual learning materials for the underprivileged school children developed under the project 'Technology Tools for Teaching and Training in India
  • 6.Unicode Implementation for Indian Scripts funded by Microsoft [9]

She has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and prestigious academic conferences and also edited five books published by Springer.[10][11][12] Her Google Scholar profile has more than 500 citations.[13] She received the Emerald Research Fund Award 2007/2008 for her research "Networks and Turning Points: An Exploration of the Dynamics of Academic Networks and Social Movements in India".[14]

Vidyanidhi

Vidyanidhi, the digital library project that was conceptualized and developed by Dr. Shalini Urs was funded by Government of India, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research under their National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT). After further funding from the Ford Foundation, Vidyanihi became a national initiative. Vidyanidhi project was featured as an innovative case in the book - Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment.[15] Vidyanidhi was an endeavor to establish a national repository and a collaborative consortium of participating universities and academic institutions for the creation, submission, archiving and accessing of Indian theses and dissertations.[16][17][17]

Conferences

Dr. Urs was instrumental in bringing the International Conference on Asian Digital Library (ICADL), one of the biggest digital library conferences to India and organized it in Bangalore in 2001.[18] She also initiated and has organized a well-known Academia-Industry Summit series called the InfoVision-Knowledge Summit in collaboration with industries such as Rediff.com, Microsoft Research, and industry bodies such as CII and BCIC since 2005 and has brought speakers from across the globe including star speakers such as Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) and Prabhakar Raghavan, Vice President of Engineering at Google and others.

Educational institutes

Based on her vast experience in academia, research, administration and international linkages, she was successful in setting up two educational institutes – International School of Information Management (ISIM) and MYRA. The International School of Information Management (ISiM) is the first Indian i-School and is an autonomous constituent institute of the University of Mysore, located in Mysore in Karnataka State, Southern India.[19][20] MYRA is a business school located in Mysore, India and was founded in 2011. MYRA  offers AICTE approved PGDM, PGPX and PhD.[21] She is currently on board of directors of Gooru [22] and serving as the Chairperson of MYRA.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "2004 NDLTD Leadership Awards - ndltd". http://www.ndltd.org/a/ndltd.org/ndltd/ndltd-awards/leadership-awards/award-details/2004ndltdleadershipawards. 
  2. ↑ Parthasarathy, Anand (2003-07-25). "The Hindu : 'Vidya Nidhi' project puts Indian doctoral theses online". The Hindu. https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2003/07/25/stories/2003072502261300.htm. 
  3. ↑ "After distinguished service, Shalini Urs retires" (in en-US). 2016-12-31. https://citytoday.news/after-distinguished-service-shalini-urs-retires/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "shalini-urs". http://myra.ac.in/beforelive/shalini-urs. 
  5. ↑ "20th Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture – Mortenson Center for International Library Programs – U of I Library". https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/lectures/2010-2/. 
  6. ↑ "UNESCO Guidelines for Electronic Dissertations Published | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". http://www.unesco.org/new/en/brasilia/about-this-office/single-view/news/unesco_guidelines_for_electronic_dissertations_published/. 
  7. ↑ "UNESCO-OA-ET-Report with Appendix-final-Urs.pdf". http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/pdf/UNESCO-OA-ET-Report-WithAppendix-final-Urs.pdf. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Shalini R Urs-Professional Endeavors". http://www.isim.ac.in/html/professional.htm. 
  9. ↑ Urs, Shalini (2003-05-24). Vidyanidhi - the evolving Indian Digital Library of Electronic Theses Initiative. https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/1815. 
  10. ↑ Urs, Shalini R., ed (2013) (in en). Digital Libraries: Social Media and Community Networks: 15th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2013, Bangalore, India, December 9-11, 2013. Proceedings. Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783319035987. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319035987. 
  11. ↑ Chen, Hsinchun, ed (2010) (in en). Intelligence and Security Informatics: Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2010, Hyderabad, India, June 21, 2010 Proceedings. Security and Cryptology. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9783642136009. https://www.springer.com/in/book/9783642136009. 
  12. ↑ Lim, Ee-Peng, ed (2002) (in en). Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology: 5th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2002, Singapore, December 11-14, 2002, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9783540002611. https://www.springer.com/in/book/9783540002611. 
  13. ↑ "Shalini Urs - Google Scholar Citations". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=siRKADUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra. 
  14. ↑ "2007/2008 Emerald Research Fund Awards: Indian LIS category". http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/research/awards/2007_2008_lis_winners_india.htm. 
  15. ↑ Tedd, Lucy A.; Large, J. Andrew (2004-01-28). Digital Libraries. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter – K. G. Saur. doi:10.1515/9783598440052. ISBN 9783598440052. 
  16. ↑ Urs, Shalini R.; Harinarayana, N. S.; Kumbar, Mallinath (2002), "A Multilingual Multi-script Database of Indian Theses: Implementation of Unicode at Vidyanidhi", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer Berlin Heidelberg): pp. 305–314, doi:10.1007/3-540-36227-4_36, ISBN 9783540002611 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Urs, Shalini R.; Raghavan, K. S. (2001-05-01). "Vidyanidhi: Indian digital library of electronic theses". Communications of the ACM 44 (5): 88–89. doi:10.1145/374308.374361. ISSN 0001-0782. 
  18. ↑ "The 4th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2001) Digital Libraries: Dynamic Landscapes for Knowledge Creation, Access and Management, December 10-12, 2001, Bangalore, India". http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/fox/01fox.html. 
  19. ↑ "ISiM - International School of Information Management". http://www.isim.ac.in/. 
  20. ↑ "International School of Information Management (ISIM)". http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/international-school-information-management-isim. 
  21. ↑ "MYRA, Top MBA, Best Management Colleges, B Schools in Mysore Karnataka". https://www.myra.ac.in/. 
  22. ↑ "Our Team". https://gooru.org/about/team. 




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