Browsing by Author "Mariyapillai, J."

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    Islandora: An Open Source Software Solution for Museum Collections of the Library, Eastern University, Sri Lanka
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2020) Mariyapillai, J.; Navitharan, G.
    The long-standing dream and ambition of the library of Eastern University, Sri Lanka [EUSL] are to establish and maintain a museum to conserve and preserve the valuable traditional and heritable materials of the Batticaloa district. The museum at the EUSL library was established under the Conservation and Preservation Unit [CPU] of the library. The CPU aims to acquire, preserve and provide access to rare and unique materials of the cultural and historical value of the Batticaloa district and also the library, EUSL provides entity to document and care of cultural heritage materials collected across the Eastern Province. The established library museum comprises of varietal collections of rare materials such as utensils of our ancestors, some paintings, materials used by farmers and other people, palm leaf manuscripts, ancient coins of Sri Lanka and details of worldwide library science pioneers with their statues. This article is providing useful information about ongoing work related to the development of the Digital Museum Collection with open sources software Islandora. The Islandora is a flexible, customizable digital repository system for the entire institution, not just the library. Therefore, Islandora is decided to use for the museum collections as it is an open-source digital asset management system based on Fedora, Drupal, and Solr applications. With temporary UBUNTU server Islandora was installed and customized for the museum requirements. Till today, the CPU team transferred 50% of museum collection into a repository and it delivering services to the library user via the local area network of the library, EUSL. In conclusion, this new approach will be the long-term preservation of the EUSL museum collection and suggested as a new way to other museums in Sri Lanka as well. Keywords: Digitization, Islandora, Museum, Rare Collection, Repository, Open source
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    Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAIPMH): A Strategy for Sharing Metadata
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2019) Mariyapillai, J.; Gamage, R.
    There are a vast and continually growing number of information resources on the World Wide Web such as text, image, audio, video and so on. Many of these resources remain hidden from commonly used search methods, such as Google or Yahoo search engines. Sri Lanka is not an exception to this scenario as majority of the higher educational institutions in Sri Lanka also seem to operate its information resources with less exchange and retrieval of metadata. The interoperability of Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is an effective way for complete metadata exchange and sharing. The larger repositories in the world such as OCLC OAIster, OpenDOAR, Europeana, etc. bring records using OAI-PMH and allow users to search the records of various institutions in one place. This paper tends to apply the OAI-PMH related process and related outputs among the Sri Lankan institutional information resources. Also, it discusses about the Sri Lankan institutional information resources interoperability with World Wide larger metadata service providers. The findings show that more than 40 online information portals available in Sri Lanka include universities and research institutions. However, all online resource portals have not been configured for OAI-PMH yet. There are only 20 Sri Lankan online portals fully enabled with OAI-PMH out of which only 13 on-line portals have been registered and have shared metadata with other larger metadata service providers. At last, the current research article has additionally proposed the applicable technical framework for sharing metadata within the nation as well as outside the country.
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    Subject Plus: An Information Management Tool for Developing Research Guides in Academic Libraries
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2020) Mariyapillai, J.; Jeyaraj, W.J.
    Library professionals must play a dynamic role in promoting library collection to educate researchers and convince them of the benefit of using resources for their academic and research activities. In recent years, information is generated from every sector of human society. However, managing these huge amounts of information is turning out to be very difficult by the day. The Recent trend amongst information seekers is becoming very specific and they require pin-pointed information. Along with this information explosion, the academic libraries are split into various sections to manage various kinds of information resources such as the reader section, periodical section, automation section, electronic section, digital section, research support section, etc. For the management of all subdivisions of the libraries, the information professionals are using several library management software, management tools, and new technological services as well. Hence, the main aim of this paper was to discuss the experience of creating and managing online subject guides or research guides at the Eastern University, Sri Lanka (EUSL). Subject Plus is a free and open-source tool that enables libraries to create and manage online research guides. And this tool maps to the library resources while simultaneously helping the researchers to find the right information at the right time. This Subject Plus tool can be downloaded from http://www.subjectsplus.com and installed with prerequisite free software such as PHP, MySQL Apache Web Server, and JavaScript along with Windows or Linux operating systems. The installation part is quite the same as other Content Management System (Joomla, WordPress, Drupal) tools but, the customization is quite tailored and lengthy. The EUSL Library has implemented an online Subject Guide project along with the already available Ubuntu server. And this was customized according to the requirements of the University researchers using the available commercialized and openaccess information resources. Consequently, the developed online Subject Guide served as a beneficial tool for researchers for On and Off-campus access, resource access through the subjects or topics, A-Z list of databases access, subject librarian collaboration with faculty staff. etc. As described, Subject Guides/Research Guides create awareness about various digital resources and enhance the information-based services in the academic libraries. Collectively, these implementation and efforts create awareness among all other Sri Lankan university information professionals to adopt Subject Plus open-source tools for their information management services. Keywords: Subject plus, Subject guides, Research guides, Open source software, Information management