Public Library based Web-enabled Community Information System for Rural Development in India: Designing A FLOSS based Multilingual Prototype

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to develop software framework for public library based and Web-enabled multilingual community information services by utilizing open standards and open source software. It uses GSDL as DL software, PERL, PHP and Java as programming environment, Unicode as character encoding standard, SeamlessUK Application Profile as metadata schema, RFC-2731 as metadata encoding standard, and an array of FLOSS based multilingual tools for designing Bengali script based user interface, processing and retrieval environment.