{"id":2986,"date":"2017-02-16T11:48:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T11:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2017-02-16T11:48:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T11:48:54","slug":"national-digital-library-breed-new-segment-start-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/national-digital-library-breed-new-segment-start-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"National Digital Library to breed new segment of start-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Digital Library (NDL) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, aims to breed a new segment of start-ups to not only help students, teachers and parents but also bolster management of educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe idea was explored during the recently-held Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 at IIT Kharagpur under &#8216;Edupreneurship&#8217; (entrepreneurial venture targeting the education segment), the institute said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is true that we can Google any information today, but NDL can fetch resources according to your educational need,&#8221; said Partha Pratim Das of the Computer Science and Engineering department, who is leading the Ministry of Human Resource Development&#8217;s NDL project.<\/p>\n<p>Das said that apps, services and platform scan be built not only to help students, teachers and parents but also for the school, university and college managements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Start-ups can use NDL resources, which are free to access. Once the product is up and running, the start-ups winll have to give NDL usage-based royalty. NDL too would showcase the start-up on its website as content-sharing partners, thereby giving them mileage,&#8221; Das added.\u2014IANS<\/p>\n<p>Image:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Digital Library (NDL) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, aims to breed a new segment of start-ups to not only help students, teachers and parents but also bolster management of educational institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}