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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEXT GENERATION COMPUTER APPLICATIONS ISSN 2319-524X

( IJNGCA ) Volume 1. Issue 1 www.ijngca.com September 2012

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Usage of Digital Technology in Next Generation Libraries a Revolution

Ajit Sagaji Sonawane#1, N B Dahibhate#2

#1 M.E.S College of Engineering Wadia College Campus, Indian, Pune.

[email protected] #2 NCL, India, Pune,

[email protected]

Abstract— In this paper I would like to elaborate on the

digitization of information and the formation of digital world for

a library. Libraries have been an integral part of information

dissemination. Information is available across the globe and it is

very difficult to access that information to make information

available to every one it needs to be digitized so that it can be

accessed from any where in the world. As we have seen a

revolution in the personal computer era we will also see a

revolution in digitization of information taking place at a

tremendous speed. The technology is changing from that PC era

to the handheld device era we need to change the way

information can be accessed in this era of handheld devices like

to pam-tops and tablets. Digitization of information is important

an should be achieved so that the end user of the information

should have his information on any device he wants his

information to be available. So digitization in next generation

libraries should change accordingly to the way the users wants

the information to be accessed.

Keywords— Digital Library, Post PC era, Handheld Tablets, XML form of information, IPEVO.

I. INTRODUCTION The information that is available today is scattered across

the globe some information is digitized but most of it is not

yet digitized. We need to digitize all the information available

across the globe so that it can be accessible to every individual

across the globe. The technology is changing day to day and

the method of information access and retrieval is also

changing and libraries access methods still remains the same.

We should revolutionized the way information is disseminated

to the end user who would like to access the library books

information. The end user who would like to access the E-

Books from the library is coming up with latest gadgets and

the user wants his books available on that gadgets.

Information that was available in the olden days was in the

form of hardbound books where the user who would like to

access the information has to walk down to the library and

then take the book. So if the book were not available on the

shelf then he would waste his time, effort and money to get

small peace of information. But due to the information

digitization today we are fortunate enough to access that

information on our computer systems. But I still think that in

the Post PC era today information is still not available because

the devices that are coming up are not supporting the formats

of the digitized information. So we need information to be

digitized in such a format that it can be accessible to every one

across the globe irrespective of the device that they are

requesting the information.

II. SYSTEM DESIGN

The technological changes in the computer are tremendous so

to keep the libraries updated and working in sync with the

next generation computer requirement is very much important

the next generation era is called the Post PC era where the

handheld devices are taking over the PC (Personal Computers).

As we all know that Microsoft is coming up with its new

operating system called Windows 8. Which will be shipping

with its own hardware the table pc for windows 8 it will be a

challenge for all the libraries and the librarians to develop and



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deploy the currently running application for libraries on the

table machines. On the other hand Apple computers has also

come up with the Ipad New but apple is having an application

called IBook’s which actually holds the books in the digital

shelf. So in the modern days the book shelfs are also digital as

we can see in the figure1 below.

Figure 1: Apple IBook Book Shelf.

The fundamental element behind my research is to develop

cloud based application software that can be used to store the

digital information over a private cloud infrastructure which

will be located inside the campus and students, staff and other

employees will be allowed to access the digital resource from

this cloud server that will be created by me at my campus.

Currently I have developed an infrastructure where I have a

2TB of digital information on a external USB HDD this HDD

is connected to the Intrant via IPEVO Mini network storage

adaptor which is a device which actually allows the USB

HDD to connect to the LAN network in our campus this

technology Usage has reduced the power consumption

required to run huge servers for information storage and

access over the LAN network previously we were using the

NAS storage Box to store this data and also to make it

available over the network. But as the technology has

advances the IPEVO has solved the problem of information

exchange over the network now I can allow my students and

the staff to access the NPTL lecture notes and the videos over

the LAN with minimum cost required to deploy the resource

for making the content available over the network. There is a

web application that has been developed by me where

students, staff and the other members can login and connect to

the network information and access it. The IPEVO device is

as shown in figure 2.

Figure 2: IPEVO Mini Network Storage Adaptor.

III. TECHNOLOGICAL USAGE The technology that I have used to develop the web based

application where all the users of the organization can come

and login and access the relevant information that they want.

The technology is Windows Azure which allows us to develop

cloud based application and allows cloud deployment and

storage all the API’s have been used to make this application

to access the resource that I have shared over the network

using the IPEVO device. The application that has been

developed can run across multiple devices and multiple



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servers so this application is basically a cross platform

application, which runs on all the web browsers that are

supported by most of the devices all the relevant information

that the end user of the library wants can be accessed on his

device. The application which is developed is not device

centric nor is it OS centric as it runs on various browsers can

the user of this application software can access the

information from his own device. In my campus we have

implemented the WIFI LAN in the library the user who would

like to access the digital information stored on the network

can connect to a specific IP e.g. 192.168.0.111/libserver/login

Where the Login page of the software appears this login page

is same across the devices which the users are using there is

no change in the login page this page is hosted on a cloud

server, which I have purchased from Godaddy.com URL

provider. The application is hosted on the windows Azure

server which is provided by the Microsoft which is a cloud

server as this application has multiple web services hosted

over the cloud each service performs various operations and

access various data repository where data is located and grants

access to the end user as shown in figure 3.

Digital Information Management System (MESCOE )

User Name:

Password:

Submit

Figure 3: User Login Portal

This Portal is basically used by our users to access information across the WIFI network that we have at our campus .

IV. ADVANTAGES

Reliability

Software reliability, unlike many other quality factors, can be

measured directed and estimated using the historical data.

Software reliability is defined in terms as “the portability of

failure-free operations of a computer program in a specific

environment for a specified time “ the software product that is

developed is highly reliable in terms of the portability which

will operate properly anywhere and at any time the system

will provide a highly reliable solution to the client as all the

current and the previous history of the digital data will be used

which will be visible to the user of the system.

Availability

In addition to a reliability measure, we must develop a

measure of availability. Software availability is the portability

that a program is operating according to requirements at a

given point in time and is defined as

Availability = [meantime to failure/ (meantime to failure +

meantime to repair)]*100%.

The availability measure is somewhat more sensitive to

MTTR, an indirect measure of the maintainability of software

system will be available to use whenever or wherever the user

goes he will be able to access the information effectively and

efficiently.

Security

The software provides a high level of security to the sensitive

data of the user as only the authenticated persons will be

allowed to access this data. The user accounts are different

any user that logins will be identified according to his

designation also the spyware protection will be provided so

that the illegal access to the system cannot be made security

verifies that protection mechanisms built into a system will, in

fact, protect it from improper penetration. Also the system

will be protected from the vulnerability that may occur the



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system and the software worms that attack so a total security

measure will be taken to protect the users data.

Maintainability

Software maintenance accounts for more effort than any other

software engineering activity. Maintainability is the ease with

which a program can be corrected if any error is encountered,

adapted if its environment changes, or enhanced if the user

desires a change in the requirement. There is no way to

measure maintainability directly; therefore, we must use

indirect measures. A simple time-oriented metric is mean-

time-to-change (MTTC), the time it takes to analyze the

change request, design an appropriate modification,

implement the change, test it, and distribute the change to all

users. This software that is developed is having a lower

MTTC the system is easily maintainable without any errors if

any error is encountered then immediate help will be provided.

Portability

The system which is designed is highly portable that means

that it can be easily transposed from one environment to

another. As we are using Cloud for deployment.

V. CONCLUSIONS Last but not the least this system is equipped with all the

features and facilities that are required in the modern day library system and is a next generation system which will cater to the needs of every increasing digital usage scenario of the end user.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like to thank Dr. Prof. N B Dahibhate for giving

me the guidance for implementing and thinking in this direction where information can be accessed across platforms and devices.

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