REPORT ON
TRAINING PROGRAM
"WEB - BASED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT"
28TH AND 30TH NOVEMBER, 2002, HYDERABAD
Sponsored by
The Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India
( A World Bank assisted Environment Management )
Capacity Building Technical Assistance Project (EMCBTAP))
ENVIS Secretariat sponsored the 1st training program
on "Web - Based Systems Development and Database Management" under the
EMCTAB - World Bank Project at Hyderabad between 28th and 30th November,
2002. The Environment Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI),
Hyderabad has been entrusted to organize the event. There were be 10 technical
sessions altogether. A summarized report of the training program is given
in the following pages.
The training programme commenced with a welcome address
by Mrs. Uma Maheswari who cordially invited all the participants. The
training programme was inaugurated by Dr Indrani Chandrashekaran, Director,
Ministry of Environment and Forests. Addressing to all the participants
Dr. Chandrashekharan envisioned the diverse characteristic the entire
Network and of each Envis node under the Envis family and announced that
a new ENVIS portal site will be hosted by January 2003.
Session I
Presentation on Web as a platform for knowledge and
information access and dissemination by Mr. L. J. Haravu.
Mr L.J Haravu, information Consultant spoke on the Web
as a platform for knowledge and information access and dissemination.
The session was an overview of the web-based database that is present
in the public for global access. He emphasized on the importance of having
a common network for linking the database among all Envis nodes and explained
how and why the wide access to data which is not in the public domain
can be shared between different Envis centres located across the countries
and it other users.
Session II
Presentation on Digital Library by Dr. E.Rami Reddy.
Dr. E.Rami Reddy, Librarian, university of Hyderabad,
spoke on the importance of Digital Libraries an emerging technologies:
initiatives at university of Hyderabad. During the session the technology
and their advantages and disadvantages to other technologies was discussed.
This was followed by looking at the web-based systems from the point of
users and Liberians. The session also looked at a hypothetical script
on how web-based library automation can help promote the network.
Session III
Presentation on Practical aspects of web domain designing,
uploading and maintenance by Mr S Manohar Reddy and Mr P. Lovaraju, Saven
Technologies
Mr S Manohar Reddy and Mr P. Lovaraju, Saven technologies,
presented on the practical aspects of web domain designing, uploading
and maintenance. The session covered topics of the basic question one's
ask about what is internet and its various application applications.
Session IV
Presentation by the participants - their information
resources and how they can be web-enabled
Presentations were made by representatives from ENVIS
Nodes of
Anna University,
NIOH,
STEM,
Department of Environment - Tamil Nadu
Annamalai University
This interactive session made a point of the problems
statements faced by the Nodes, which were handled by the officials from
the ENVIS Secretariat.
Session V
A visit was made to EPTRI's ENVIS centre to observe the
database and web-links maintained by the centre. A small presentation
was made by Mr. Baquaer on their ENVIS website. It was followed by refreshment
and on behalf of EPTRI Mr. Baquaer presented all the participants with
a copy of the proceedings of the National Seminar on Conservation of Eastern
Ghats.
Presentation on Web-based library automation and Networking
by Mr. L. J. Haravu.
The presentation can be summarised as follows:
Web-based Library automation system provides on-line
catalogue and other library services which the user need.
The system integrates principles of librarianship
with the web's global network to help create a dynamic, user-driven
front-end to any library's set of material.
It support a framework for libraries to provide enhanced
access to local and remote sets of data, information and knowledge.
Session VII
Presentation on Knowledge Management and Networking
by Dr. P. Vyasamurthy
Knowledge Management is an emerging set of processes,
organizational structures, applications and technologies that aim
to leverage the ability of the able, responsible, autonomous individual
to act quickly and effectively.
Knowledge Management & Knowledge Networking are two
different terms.
Knowledge Networking is a tool or means to achieve
Knowledge Management in a larger scale among institutions of similar
nature through greater synergy of operations.
ICICI Knowledge Network is a network of premier academic
and industrial R & D Institutions which share ideas, knowledge, information
about facilities, instruments, expertise, library resource with ICICI
Knowledge Park Community
Session VIII
Hands on Training (Front page) at Department of LIS,
Osmania University coordinated by Mr S Manohar Reddy and Mr P. Lovaraju,
Saven Technologies
A user friendly Web Tool To Design a Web Page. One can
easily learn how to design a web site without much assistance. An assignment
was given for the participants to try their hands on creating their own
web page.
Presentation on "Technologies for we-enabling of databases"
by Mr. L. J. Haravu
Explaining the importance and advantages of database
development and management in the present era, Mr. Haravu described
the different softwares available for database development and management.
Provided a brief review of the technologies available
for web-enabled databases. Some of the technologies described by him
are as follows:
HTML
DGTML
CGI
DLLs
Microsoft Technologies such as Active Server
Pages (ASP) etc.
Cold Fusion
IntraBuilder
Visual Café Pro
File-Maker Pro
Concluded the presentation by explaining the problems
a database developer and manager face while developing and maintaining
a database.
Session X
Database Management at MANAGE - Presentation by Lakshmi
Murthy Assistant Director (Documentation) Manage
Presentation on digital library
Presentation on web based knowledge networking at
MANAGE
Major emphasis on discussion forum. Described Majordomo
software for managing the database generated in the discussion forum.
Presentation on video conferencing
Presentation on some web based initiatives taken
by MANAGE for the rural women.
Concluding Session
Measures suggested by the participants to make the
ENVIS network more effective during the concluding session are as
follows:
Need for having same kind of platform in all the
ENVIS Nodes, Centers and Secretariat for developing and maintaining
the database was expressed.
Subject areas should be well defined
Training programmes like this should be more practical
oriented.
Next training programme should be a follow up of
the present training programme.
The training programme ended with the felicitation of
all the participants.
