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India's neglected museums

It is not enough to just talk about Indian culture and history. Governments must help to preserve it too. India’s shamefully neglected museums might finally be getting some attention, as a few committed individuals fight to save them

It is not enough to just talk about Indian culture and history. Governments must help to preserve it too. India’s shamefully neglected museums might finally be getting some attention, as a few committed individuals fight to save them.

India's neglected museums
The UNESCO report and a 14-point museum reforms agenda put together by the Ministry of Culture in 2010-11 served as a wake-up call.

Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
The museum is working on an ambitious expansion plan with a Modern Gallery, an auditorium, a children’s centre, more libraries and archives.

CSMVS, Mumbai
Now, CSMVS gets over a million visitors a year, despite charging more than other museums.

NGMA, Bengaluru
The five-acre campus with its stunning but crumbling colonial structure was restored to house the National Gallery of Modern Art, and celebrated its sixth anniversary last February.

National Museum, New Delhi
The museum has also been organising collateral events such as talks, workshops, performances and activities for children.

Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
The Victoria Memorial Hall (VMH), launched by Lord Curzon in 1906, has a collection of over 28,000 artefacts.

'Culture cannot be a punishment posting’
Eka Resources, museum consultancy company, MD Pramod Kumar K.G. talks about the tragedy of Indian museums and what can make a change.

Read the full feature published in The Hindu dt. 12th Apr 2015

Wired 20th anniversary: 1993-2013

In his very first editor's letter, Louis Rossetto wrote, “There are a lot of magazines about technology. WIRED is not one of them. WIRED is about the most powerful people on the planet today: the Digital Generation.” On this, our 20th anniversary, the time has come to reflect on this generation of leaders, thinkers, and makers. These people, their companies, and their ideas have shaped the future we live in today. Below, we've gathered stories for, by, and about the people who have shaped the planet's past 20 years—and will continue driving the next.

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Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving

Enterprise information archiving is contributing to organizational needs for e-discovery and compliance requirements, and reducing primary storage costs. Gartner evaluates vendors offering products and services that provide archiving for email, files and other content types.

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Online Handbook: Standards for Archival Description:

A Handbook describes technical standards, conventions, and guidelines used by archivists in describing holdings and repositories. They are applied in a variety of systems and products, including automated information systems, manual and automated catalogs, in-house finding aids, book and serial publications, and filing and storage systems. Detailed entries are provided for 86 standards, while another 157 are identified in summary lists. Introductions to each chapter discuss the historical development and interrelationships among standards used for particular applications. Detailed entries identify the developer(s) of the standard, describe how and why it is applied in archival practice, supply information on how to obtain copies of the standard, and provide sources for additional information or guidance on its use. When further information or the standards themselves are available online, a link is provided. Appendix A contains a list of standards developers, their addresses, links to their World Wide Web Sites when available, and the titles of the standards relevant to archival practice. Appendix B provides several tables to clarify the relationships among standards both within the U.S. and internationally.

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Using Archives: A Guide to Effective Research

This guide outlines the functions and procedures of archives, and is designed both for first-time archives users and scholars who have already conducted research in archives. The content covers how archives function, how to identify appropriate archives for your research, and how to access historical materials and research at an archives. Repositories and their collecting scopes and practices may differ, but the principles in this guide should assist you in accomplishing your research goals at any archival institution. Access it

Five easy-to-use archiving/compression tools

You’re not stuck using the built-in archiving/compression app that comes with your OS. Here are a few alternatives to consider.

Where would we be without archiving and compression tools? We’d be knee deep in full drives and unable to pass along folders as easily as we can. Archiving is deeply embedded in the world of the PC, making it an indispensable tool.

Now most platforms have their own built-in tools for archiving and compressing. But in some cases, those tools aren’t enough. So it’s good to know that there are other applications to pick up the slack. Some of those applications are familiar and some are not. Let’s dive in and examine several of these, so you can enjoy an alternative archiving and/or compression tool.

1: 7-Zip
2: PeaZip
3: WinRAR
4: File Roller
5: Ark

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ERCIM News

ERCIM News: It is the magazine of ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. It reports on joint actions of the ERCIM partners, and aims to reflect the contribution made by ERCIM to the European Community in Information Technology. Through short articles and news items, it provides a forum for the exchange of information between the institutes and also with the wider scientific community. ERCIM News is published quarterly. Each issue is focused on a theme. Some of the recent themes (2012) include: Big Data, Software Evolution, Ambient Assisted Living, Unconventional Computing Paradigms, Cloud Computing, Computational Biology. For archives from the first issue (1988), Pl. visit