1DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, 560 059, India. E-mail: raghavan@isibang.ac.in, anm2002@vsnl.net
2Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, 560 010, India. E-mail: srels@dataone.in
*Based on a paper contributed to the National Conference on Role of Open Source Software in Libraries, 24–25, Nov. 2009, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala.
Based on an ongoing project at the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, a collaborative approach to developing South Asian language interfaces as also test collections in Greenstone has been elaborated. Some of the novel features of the work that has been carried out so far are explained with illustrations. Some of the issues that need to be addressed as also strategies that could be adopted for enhancing the utility and value of digital libraries are briefly examined.
Digital library, Software development, co-creation, collaboration
