{"id":105,"date":"2020-06-16T14:24:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/?p=105"},"modified":"2020-06-17T06:07:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T06:07:51","slug":"prof-ard-prasad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/16\/prof-ard-prasad\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. ARD Prasad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
CV-Prof. ARD Prasad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Profile<\/td>\nFormer Professor and Head
\nDocumentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC)
\nIndian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bengaluru<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Address<\/td>\nE-mail: ardprasad@gmail.com; ard@drtc.isibang.ac.in
\nMobile: +91 944 902 6528<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Experience<\/td>\n37 years (29 years of teaching & research; 9 yrs as Head, DRTC, ISI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Educational qualifications<\/td>\nPh.D. in Library Science; M.A. and M.Phil in Philosophy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DSpace related contributions:<\/td>\n\uf0b7 Was a Member of DSpace Governance Advisory Board, MIT, USA
\n\uf0b7 Launched the first Digital Repository using DSpace in India.
\n\uf0b7 Hosting a Ubuntu based LiveDVD preconfigured with DSpace, Koha, VuFind. Drupal
\nMore than 30,000 downloads from about 100 countries
\nhttps:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/liblivecd\/
\n\uf0b7 Conducted ~50 training workshops in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, Samoa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other distinctions:<\/td>\n1) Guided 13 Ph.Ds
\n2) Published 4 books, about 80 papers
\n3) Member, Project Evaluation committee on E-Infrastructure, European Commission,
\nBrussels
\n4) Consultant, UNFAO, Rome
\n5) Consultant,UNESCO, Paris
\n6) Consultant, Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada
\n7) Mentor, Google Summer of Code, Google Head Quarters, USA
\n8) Member, High Level Committee, National Mission for Libraries, Govt. of India
\n9) Member, Working Group on Libraries, National Knowledge Commissionof India
\n10) Member, University Grants Commission (UGC) of India Curriculum Development
\nCommittee on Library and Information Science
\n11) Member, Electronic Theses and Dissertations Committee, INFLIBNET(Information Library
\nNetwork of India)
\n12) Fulbright Scholar, Visited University of Maryland, College Park; Iowa State University
\n13) Member of Retroconversion Committee, National Library of India<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Completed Projects:<\/td>\n1) Living Knowledge: Funded by European Commission. Area: Semantic Web
\n2) AgInfra, Funded by European Commissionfunded. Area: Agriculture Data
\n3) Project Leader: India-Trento Programme for Advanced Research (ITPAR-2). Area:
\nOntology
\n4) Integration of AGRIS-AP metadata schema for DSpace (UN-FAO)
\n5) NGO Portal for UN-AIDSprogram
\n6) Submitted evaluation report on National Library, INFLIBNET & CRLto NKC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CV-Prof. ARD Prasad Profile Former Professor and Head Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bengaluru Address E-mail: ardprasad@gmail.com; ard@drtc.isibang.ac.in Mobile: +91 944 902 6528 Experience 37 years (29 years of teaching & research; 9 yrs as Head, DRTC, ISI Educational qualifications Ph.D. in Library Science; M.A. and M.Phil in Philosophy DSpace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.vufind.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}