I was invited to make a presentation on “Digital Resource Management and Information Outreach” to a group of of researchers, environment journalists and web content managers, attending a brief course at the Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) university.

The presentation was agreed to take CSE’s Environment Knowledge Portal initiative as a Case Study for the presentation. The Knowledge Portal is a brilliant initiative by CSE to free up its 15-20 years of digitally stored data, so far hidden inside their Library Management System (several of them over the years). The content is from various sources – articles and news from their premier Science and Environment magazine called Down to Earth, news clippings from over 200 journals, government documents, unpublished theses, database of books, and stock images.

Here’s the presentation I quickly made. People had access to the portal under development, which the readers here would not, a the moment. The portal, being built on Drupal, should be up within the next 45 days.

The interaction with the group at the end, turned into a discussion on open source philosophy and anti-software-patents movement and its related fallout on the drug and pharma industry.
The portal will be a one its kind resource on environment and climate change related subjects. Stay tuned!

Digital Resource Management Information Outreach (PDF)