Imagerie dans le brouillard à longue distance

D’une rencontre en 1999 naît une aventure scientifique entre le Raman Research Institute de Bangalore (Inde) et deux laboratoires français autour de l’imagerie en milieux diffusants à longue distance pour l’imagerie en conditions de visibilité dégradées. Mêlant approches polarimétriques et modulation/démodulation temporelle des images, ces travaux ont conduit à développer plusieurs prototypes d’imageurs originaux, permettant des gains en contraste significatifs sur la visibilité de balises lumineuses en conditions de brouillard réelles.

Digital curation practices in institutional repositories in South India: a study

Purpose The purpose of this study was to identify the digital curation practices in institutional repositories (IRs) in South India. Design/methodology/approach A voluntary survey was conducted among the IR managers of 23 South Indian IRs, and the response rate was 87%. Findings This study found that the active participation of South Indian IRs was only seen in a few digital curation activities. However, of the 33 digital curation activities analyzed, the active participation of repositories was only seen in ten digital curation activities. The performance of preservation activities was extremely low, and disagreements were recorded by the survey participants toward several digital curation activities. The most disagreed digital curation activities were emulation and cease data curation. All the participants had assigned metadata and allowed file downloads in their repositories. Raman Research Institute had provided a good number of digital curation services in their IR. Originality/value This is an in-depth study investigating the digital curation practice currently underway in South Indian IRs, and the researcher could not find similar studies in this niche.

Institutional Repository Know-how of a decade in Managing Digital Assets

The advent of the Internet and the mushrooming of information in various digital formats have resulted in looking at the library and its services with newer perspectives for conserving and disseminating scholarly publications. This paper discusses two mechanisms of digitization initiated at Raman Research Institute (RRI) in India, namely 1) the Digital Repository of RRI and 2) the Imprints Collection. The digital repository of RRI is the institutional repository built in 2006 to bring visibility to the scholarly publications of its founder Sir C V Raman. This paper discusses a decade long experience in building and sustaining an institutional repository. A value addition to this repository is the “Imprints Collection”- a bio-bibliographic database of retired scientists of RRI. The design and functionality of the Imprints Collection are also discussed in this paper.

Evolution of Scholarly Publishing and Library Services in Astronomy Its Impact, Challenges, and Opportunities

Scholarly publishing and its procedures have evolved rapidly, forcefully, and incredibly. Technical advances in the production and promotion of science content have dramatically augmented the visibility and reach, deepened the impact and intensified the thrust of science journal content. These changes range from checking text on perforated tapes to pit stop; from hot metal types to CTP; and from Gutenberg to colour digital printers. Intrinsic and inextricable to this revolutionary aspect of evolution in scholarly publishing is the evolution of library services in astronomy which catapulted library resources from preprints on shelves to customised digital repositories and from communicating observational data through postal telegrams to Tablets. What impact does this unique blend of revolutionary advances have on science and society, what are the consequent challenges, and what are the opportunities that can metamorphose from challenges inherent in the power and potential of the ‘published word’?The perspectives expressed in this paper stem from learning experiences of the authors at the Indian Academy of Sciences, publishers of ten science journals including the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, and at the Raman Research Institute Library (in which Astronomy is one of the core subjects for research)

The Raman Research Institute

The Raman Research Institute (RRI) is an autonomous research institute engaged in research on the basic sciences. It is an institute that stands apart from other research institutes in India because of its rich history.

Fifth ASTROD Symposium and Outlook of Direct Gravitational-Wave Detection

From July 11 to July 13, 2012, Raman Research Institute (Bangalore, India) hosted the Fifth International ASTROD Symposium on Laser Astrodynamics, Space Test of Relativity and Gravitational-Wave Astronomy. About sixty persons attended the Symposium including 24 invited speakers, 15 professionals from various fields and 20 students (Fig. 1). The aim of this series of Symposia is to focus on various disciplines related to fundamental physics in space, to foster dialogues and to plan for the future. Previous ASTROD Symposia were held during September 21-23, 2001 (Beijing), June 2-3, 2005 (Bremen), July 14-16, 2006 (Beijing) and July 16-17, 2010 (Bremen).