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NISCAIR is the implementing institute for three major netw ork projects, namely Tradit ional Knowledge DigitalLibrary, N ational Science Digital Library and E-Journal Consortium. The progress of these projects dur ing the year

is highl ighted here.

T ra di t io na l K n ow l e dg e digi t a l L ibrary(TKDL ) of Medicine were ini tiated i n June,

2004. An interdiscipl inary team of13 Unani Experts, 18 Junior Unani

Experts, one IT Expert, one PatentExaminer and a Scientist is involvedin the project. The transcripti on of

targeted 77,000 formulations, from42 Unani books, which are in Urdu,

Arabic and Persian languages is

being carried out in the patentapplication format and in 5languages, as has been done forTKDL Ayurveda. Approximately

73,000 formulations have beenidentified, 56,000 formulations

transcribed and 14,500formulations scanned from the

original texts. Transcription,scanning and verif icati on and

validation of entire 77,000formulations is l ikely to be

completed by December 2006.

Ayurveda Phase II Activities under the second phaseof TKDL Ayurvedawere ini tiated in

August 2004. An interdiscip linaryteam of 12 Ayurveda Experts, 8

Junior Ayurveda Experts, 1 ITExpert, 1 Patent Examiner and a

Scientist is engaged in the project.

The second phase involvesidenti fication of 65,000 formulations

from 45 Ayurveda texts, checkingfor dupl icates and transcript ion of28,000 new formulations. So far,

more than 34,000 formulationshave been identified from the

Ayurveda texts and checked for the

dupl icates. Transcript ion of 24,000formulati ons has been completed.Work on transcripti ons of targeted

28,000 formulations, theirverification and validation andscanning covering entire 65,000

formulations is likely to be

completed by December 2006.

Siddha Traditional Knowledge Resource

Classification (TKRC) has been

developed for Siddha System ofMedicine. Twelve Siddha Experts

have been recrui ted for the project.The transcription of Siddha

formulations has been done for 800formulations and the project is

likely to be completed by March2007. TKDL Siddha targets 10,000formulations from 45 Tamil texts.

Y o g a Draft Task Force report and

Traditional Knowledge ResourceClassification on Yoga have been

completed and sent to the Task forcemembers and sixteen other YogaExperts identi fied by Morarji Desai

National Institute of Yoga andDepartment of AYUSH.

So far in the TKDL project,about 13 mi ll ion pages (A4 size) of

information have been created. This

The Traditional Knowledge Digital

Library (TKDL) is a collaborative

project of NISCAIR, Department of

Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy,Unani, Siddha and H omoeopathy

(AYUSH) and Department ofIndustrial Policy & Promotion, beingimplemented at N ISCAIR. The main

objective of this globally renowned

project is to preventmisappropriation of Indias richheritage of tradi tional knowledge.

Following the completion ofTKDL Ayurveda Phase I, which

involved 36,000 formulations from14 authentic Ayurveda texts in fi ve

international languages, namelyEnglish, French, German, Spanishand Japanese in patent appli cation

format, the activi ties of TKDL projecton Indian Systems of Medicine have

been diversif ied to include Unani,Siddha and Yoga Systems of

Medicine, besides Ayurveda.Activ it ies undertaken in these areasduring the year are summarized

below:

U na n iActivities under TKDL Unani System


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(ITRC), Lucknow; Institute ofHimalayan Bio-resource

Technology (IH BT), Palampur;

Central Food TechnologicalResearch Institute (CFTRI), Mysore;Uni t for Research and Developmentof Information Products (URDIP),

Pune; Regional ResearchLaboratory (RRL), Jammu; Regional

Research Laboratory (RRL),Bhubaneswar; and Central

Building Research Institute (CBRI),Roorkee. Al l the networking Labs/Institutes are contributing to the

TKDL database based on their corecompetencies.

The contr ibutions of NISCAIRto the TKDL Network Project are

summarized as follows.

Books on Indian System of Medicines Thirty books on Indian Systems of

Medicine, part icularly onAyurveda, w il l be brought out. The

titles of these books have beenidenti fied. Work has been init iatedfor the following four books which

are li kely to be brought out in 2006,

(i) Pl an ts U sed i n I nd i an

Systems of Medicine

(i i) Prevent ive and Curat ive

Remedies of Ayurveda

(iii) Treasury of Ayurveda

(iv) Herbo-Mineral Preparationsin Ayurveda (Rasa-Yogas)

Database on Disease: Causes and Symptoms Work on the database, Disease:Causes and Symptoms is in progress

and is likely to be completed byDecember 2006. Five original

Ayurveda texts, namely AshtangaHrdya, Caraka Smhita, KashyapaSamhita, Sushruta Samhita and

Madhava Nidana will be used forcollecting the data. Of these, the

Table 1

Sl. Indian No. of No. of No. of Pages(A4)

No. System of Books Formulations of information

Medicine (Vols.) (in millions)Target Current Current

Status Status

1. Ayurveda 64 books

(90 Volumes) 64,000 60,000 10.0

2. Unani 19 books

(67 Volumes) 77,000 56,000 3.0

3. Siddha 45 books

(53 Volumes) 10,000 800

4. Yoga 10 books

(10 Volumes) 1,500

Total 138 books

(220 Volumes) 1,52, 500 1,16,800 13.0

number is li kely to increase to 31 mi ll ion pages, covering a total of approx.

1,50,000 traditional drug formulations by December 2006. The target numberof formulations and the progress achieved so far i s summarized in Table 1

above.

Comprehensive TKDL(CTKDL) Netwo rk Project The CTKDL Netw ork Project (SMM 09) was approved by the Expenditure

and Finance Commi ttee in February 2004.

NISCAIR is the Nodal Insti tute for this project, which has nine otherCSIR Labs/ Insti tutes as networking partners. These are : National Botanical

Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow; Central Insti tute of M edicinal andAromatic Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow; Industrial Toxicology Research Centre

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three books that are being usedinitially for collecting the data are

Ashtanga Hrdya, Caraka Smhitaand

Kashyapa Samhita. Data have beencollected for creating TKRC for1143 causes (target: about 5000

by Department of Legal A ffairs andLegal and Treaty Division of

Ministry of External Affairs. The

Agreement has also been vetted byMr Soli Sorabjee, senior A dvocateand M/ s Anand & AnandAdvocates, a leading IPR firm, who

have found the agreementenforceable. The agreement is, at

present, being examined by Govt.of India.

Impact andRecognit ion ofTKDL Traditional Knowledge Digital

Library is based on Ayurveda

which is one of the oldest systemsof medicine(2500 B.C.). The Googlesearch results for Ayurveda showsabout 4,400,000 references/

cit ati ons/ documents, whereasreferences/ citations/ documents for

TKDL (established in 2003), areabout 31,400,000, i.e almost eight

times than Ayurveda on whichTKD L is based. Sim il arly ,

Traditional Knowledge ResourceClassif ication (TKRC) recognized inFebruary 2002 is based on

International Patent Classification(IPC) System (1971). Google search

resul ts show about 10,600,000references/ citations/ documents for

IPC and 28,400,000 citations forTKRC which is more than two-and-a half times to that for IPC. The

search results are shown in the tablebelow:

causes) and 5157 symptoms(target: about 10,000 symptoms)

from the books mentioned above and

also from 1953 personal healthrecords.

ArogyaHealth Mela 2005 NISCAIR participated in the Arogya Health Melas held at :

i) Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, 23-27 September 2005

ii) Necklace Ground, Hyderabad, 11-13 November 2005

iii) Convention Centre, Chennai Trade Centre, N andam-bakkam,Chennai, 26-28February 2006, organized by Ind ian Trade Promotion

Organization (ITPO) and Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health

and Family Welfare

A c c e s s t o T K D L Da t a b a s e Access to TKDL database is to be given only to Patent Officesto prevent the misappropriation of Traditional Knowledge of

the country, under non-disclosure agreement. Mr. GerardGiroud, Principal Director, Tools Documentation, European

Patent Off ice (EPO), has requested for access of TKDL vi de

his letter dated 15th

July 2005, wherein i t has been mentionedthat EPO examiners wi ll be using unique tool called EPOQUE

access search collections which may not allow patents to beunduly granted and avoid expensive post-grant invalidation

procedures. He has also assured all guarantees ofconfidentiali ty and proper usage control .

The TKDL database will be provided to InternationalPatent Offices, particularly to EPO, under non-disclosure

agreement. The Access Agreement on TKDL has been vetted

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Technology Acquisitions and

Promotion, Abuja, Nigeria;Dr. T F Okujagu, Di rector/ Chief

Executive, Nigeria NaturalMedicine Development Agency,Victoria Island, Lagos; and M r. S.O.

Etatuvie, Chief Research Officer,Niger ia Natural Medicine

Coverage of TKDL by National and International Media TKDL and Nat iona l Media TKDL has been covered on newschannels such as Aaj Tak, StarNews, Asianet, India TV and

NDTV. Hindustan Times (12 Dec.2005) covered TKDL in its edi torial.

Other newspapers, which coveredTKDL recently are: The Economic

Times, The Business Standard, TheFinancial Express, The H indu and

The Statesman. In addit ion, several

regional newspapers al so hadextensive coverage on TKDL.

TKDL and In ternat iona l Media Table below refl ects coverage ofTKDL in International media in the

month of December 2005 alone.

Sl. Country Covered

No. by News-papers

(No.)

(December2005)

1 USA 50

2 India 8

3 UK 5

4 Canada 4

5 Europe 2

6 Italy 2

7 South Africa 1

8 Australia 1

9 Brazil 110 Dubai 1

11 Bangladesh 1

These are evidenced from the

following figures:

Development Agency, VictoriaIsland, Lagos, vi sited NISCAIR on

6th February 2006. Nigerian

delegation showed keen desire tocollaborate with NISCAIR in

repli cating TKDL for N igeria. TheNigerian delegation proposed to

work out a plan of action in thisregard.

( I I I)Japanese Delegat ion A three-member delegation comprising Associate Professor Hiroshi

Kato, National Graduate Insti tute for Policy Studies, Tokyo; Mr. H irokazu

Nakano, Deputy Di rector, Japanese Patent Off ice (JPO), Tokyo; and M r.Hitoshi Amano, Director, Intellectual Property Department, Japan External

Trade Organization, Bangkok, visited NISCAIR on 6th March 2006 todiscuss on Traditional Knowledge Digital Library and Intellectual Property .The delegation expressed the keenness of JPO to have access to the TKDL

database for the purpose of search and examination. A formal request foraccessing the TKDL database would be submi tted shortly by them.

Japanese Delegation at NISCAIR

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to implementation of thisproject.

2. The post agreement monitoring

for all the above 11 publi shersis going on. Usage statisti cs of11 publishers are being

regularly organized andloaded on Search Interface &

Monitoring System Gateway sothat user labs may see it.

3. The project had organizedtrainers training workshops atsix locations of CSIR labs, vi z.

Delhi, Lucknow, Hyderabad,Chennai, Kolkata and Pune,

during 28th July to 31st Aug,2005. In all, one hundred and

twenty tw o participants fromall CSIR labs were trained over

a period of sixteen days. Theparticipants of these trainerstraining programmes are

organizing trainingprogrammes for respective lab-

to-lab based users.

4. 15000 pri nt copies of CSIR

News Supplement a Quick

Search Reference Guide,printed and d istributed amongCSIR users and other S&Tpersonnel of the country to

enhance usage and awareness.

Major activities during the yearinclude the follow ing :

1. The project had concluded

agreements with 11 internationalpublishers, viz. Elsevier Science,Spri nger & Kl uw er, A merican

Instit ute of Physics, Blackw ell ,American Society of Civil

Engineering, American ChemicalSociety, John Wiley, Cambridge

University Press, Oxford UniversityPress, Am eri can Society ofMechanical Engineering and Royal

Society of Chemistry, and CSIR labsare accessing 3300+ journals vis-

-vis 20 to 200 pri nt jour nals prior

E-journals consortium has been established by NISCAIR to provide

electronic access to 4500 international S&T journals to CSIR scientists andthereby strengthen the facil it ies for pooling, sharing and electronicall yaccessing the CSIR information resources and also for nucleating the cul ture

of electronic access with a view to catalysing the evolution of digital libraries.

Project Allocation:

Capital : Rs. 11.69 Crores

Recurring : Rs. 0.10 Crore

Total : Rs. 11.79 Crores

Expenditure up to

31st March 2006 : Rs. 5.28 Crores


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5. A poster designed and 2200

copies of it got printed fordisplay at prominent places in

CSIR labs.

6. All the nodal off icers/ head

(li braries) have been appri sedabout WALK-IN-USERSfacility and accordingly

requested to allow the walk-in-users to use the CSIR e-journals

Consortium facil ity from library

premises of CSIR labs. Thenodal officers/ head of l ibrarieshave been also requested to

publ ishers. The monitor ing

system also has a built-insystem to manage and record

the problems of the users whileaccessing e- journals of variouspublishers.

9. Revised EFC for seekingaddit ional funds to add

remaining three morepubl ishers, vi z. M/ s IEEE,

M/ s Taylor & Francis and M/ s

A CM/ Emerald , has beensubmitted to RDPD.

10. An EFC to add databases li ke

Web Of Science and patentdatabases is underway for

submission.

NationalScienceDigital Library(NSDL) National Science Digital Library(NSDL), the fir st of i ts kind i n the

country, envisages to provide e-access to digital resources to

students, particularly in the remoteareas. The basic aim of the projectis to contribute to the national

maintain a proper record of

these users.

7. The hard copy of Agreements

has been sent to the Director,Finance Officer and Nodal

Off icer of all CSIR labs to dealas per the provisions of theagreements.

8. NI SCAIR has developed aSearch Interface Gateway and

Complaint M onitoring System,

intended for user-fr i endl yaccess to journals available inconsort ium from various

Dr R.A. Mashelkar, DG, CSIR, Speaking on the Occasion of

CSIR e-journals Consortium Meeting

Dr Mashelkar Releasing the CSIR News Supplement on CSIR

e-journals Consortium

Director, NISCAIR and Prof. R.S. Sirohi, VC, Barkatullah University, Bhopal at the

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development by reaching the un-reached students in the remote

areas, by providing them e-learningfacilities and access to quality

curriculum-based material at alevel similar to that available tostudents in metros.

Approved as a core networkproject under the Tenth Five-Year

Plan (TFYP) in April 2004 with a

budget outlay of Rs 44.23 crore,NSDL is being implemented withthe active participation of

University Grants Commission(UGC) and Ministry of Human

Resource Development (MHRD). Inthe fi rst phase of the project, NSDLtargets students of undergraduate

level and above in Indianuniversities and colleges. It is

proposed to create original andtargeted contents by identified

panels of experts/ authors for

about 600 e-books forundergraduate students by the end

of 2006-07. Contents will be subjectspecific, location specific and

university specif ic.

A number of activities were

undertaken during 2005-06. Theseincluded the constitution of the

Work ing Groups in tw elve subject

discipl ines, identi fication of e-booksand their contents, identification of

authors for writing chapters invarious e-books, finalization of the

technical documents includingSoftware RequirementSpecifications (SRS) for NSDL

Portal, Detailed Project Report(DPR) of NSDL, Request for

Proposal (RFP) for Data Centre,

Project Management Plan (PMP)and Quali ty A ssurance Plan for theproject. However, the tw o majoractivi ties during the year pertained

to content creation and softwaredevelopment.

Content Creat ion Twelve Working Groups wereconstituted for as many subject

disciplines as identified based onthe UGC Model Curriculum for

creation of e-courseware atundergraduate level.

Seventeen meetings of thevarious Working Groups were held

to finalize the topics on whiche-books are to be wr it ten and also to

identify the authors to whom the

work could be allocated. Consentwas sought from the identified

authors for writing the chaptersand subsequently chapters were

allocated to the authors. A total of484 chapters in 65 books for seven

disciplines were allocated duringthe year.

The NSDL team also createdsample mult imedia learning objectsto help in evolving guidelines for

the important stake holders inmul timedia content creation. The

team has also finalized theGuidelines for Multimedia Content

Creation to aid the authors,

Dr Shobhit Mahajan with Director, NISCAIR in a Meeting of NSDL

From left: Shri Madhukar Sinha, Prof. Arun Nigavekar and Director, NISCAIR

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validators and mult imediaspecialists in content creation.

The process of empanelment of

reti red scienti sts/ academi cianswas also ini tiated. The empanelledscientists will be involved in the

verification, validation and other

activi ties of e-book creation.

NSDL In f ras t ruc t ure Infrastructure which includes

hardware, software and non-IT

aspects is also a major componentof the pr oject. A tender w as

f loated for the sof tware

development and the bidsreceiv ed w ere evaluated. Theaward of work based on theexercise carr ied out w il l be done

during 2006-2007.

The team also developed aWeb-based Content Creation

Management System (CCM S) forNSDL. The softw are is being usedat the NISCAIR level and is

proposed to be extended to theauthors also.

The draft Request for

Proposals (RFPs) for Data Centreand non-IT Infrastructure andSite Preparation were prepared

during the year. It i s proposed tofinalize and f loat the RFPs during

2006-2007.

Meeting of NSDL in Progress at NISCAIR

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