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{{Short description|Indian information scientist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox scientist
| honorific_prefix = Dr.
| name = Shalini R. Urs
| image = Dr. Shalini Urs.jpg
| nationality = [[India]]n
| alma_mater = [[University of Mysore]]
| known_for = [https://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/html/shaliniurs.htm Vidyanidhi], [[International School of Information Management|ISIM]], [[MYRA School of Business|MYRA]]
}}
'''Shalini R. Urs''' is an information scientist who pioneered the digital library movement in [[India]], particularly the Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETD). She was awarded the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations–Adobe Leadership award in 2004 for her initiatives.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ndltd.org/a/ndltd.org/ndltd/ndltd-awards/leadership-awards/award-details/2004ndltdleadershipawards|title=2004 NDLTD Leadership Awards - ndltd|website=www.ndltd.org|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref> She built a multilingual online digital library called Vidyanidhi in 2000, long before the digital era captured the imagination of many in India.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2003/07/25/stories/2003072502261300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040306025452/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2003/07/25/stories/2003072502261300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2004-03-06|title='Vidya Nidhi' project puts Indian doctoral theses online|access-date=2019-02-15|date=2003-07-25|last1=Parthasarathy|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|first1=Anand}}</ref>

==Career==

Dr. Urs started her career with [[University of Mysore]] in 1976 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://citytoday.news/after-distinguished-service-shalini-urs-retires/|title=After distinguished service, Shalini Urs retires|date=2016-12-31|website=Mysuru Today|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref> and was a [[Fulbright scholar]] and a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science, [[Virginia Tech]], USA during 2000 -2001.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://myra.ac.in/beforelive/shalini-urs|title=shalini-urs|website=myra.ac.in|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref> She was awarded the [https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/lectures/2010-2/ Mortenson Distinguished Lecturer 2010] by the [[University of Illinois Urbana Champaign]], USA and was invited to deliver their annual lecture series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/lectures/2010-2/|title=20th Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture – Mortenson Center for International Library Programs – U of I Library|website=www.library.illinois.edu|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>

==Research==

Her areas of research include Information Retrieval, Ontology Development, and Social Media and Network Analysis. As a leading digital library expert she was commissioned to carry out studies and projects by [[UNESCO]], Educational Development Council, Washington, DC, USA and others. Some of her well known projects/studies include the following:
* 1. UNESCO Guide to Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs),2002 <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/brasilia/about-this-office/single-view/news/unesco_guidelines_for_electronic_dissertations_published/|title=UNESCO Guidelines for Electronic Dissertations Published | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|website=www.unesco.org}}</ref>
* 2. UNESCO Directory of Open Access Education and Training Opportunities, 2011 <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/pdf/UNESCO-OA-ET-Report-WithAppendix-final-Urs.pdf|title=UNESCO-OA-ET-Report with Appendix-final-Urs.pdf|website=www.unesco.org}}</ref>
* 3. UNESCO sponsored Training Program called UN4IM Training Library and Information Professionals in India.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.isim.ac.in/html/professional.htm|title=Shalini R Urs-Professional Endeavors|website=www.isim.ac.in}}</ref>
* 4. UNESCO Workshop on eBooks, ISiM. September 2004 <ref name="auto1"/>
* 5. Digital Library of Learning Educational Development Council, Washington, DC, USA Project the Dot-EDU digital library of audiovisual learning materials for the underprivileged school children developed under the project 'Technology Tools for Teaching and Training in India
* 6.Unicode Implementation for Indian Scripts funded by Microsoft <ref>{{Cite journal | url=https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/1815 |title = Vidyanidhi - the evolving Indian Digital Library of Electronic Theses Initiative|date = 2003-05-24|last1 = Urs|first1 = Shalini}}</ref>

She has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and prestigious academic conferences and also edited five books published by Springer.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319035987|title=Digital Libraries: Social Media and Community Networks: 15th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2013, Bangalore, India, December 9-11, 2013. Proceedings|date=2013|publisher=Springer International Publishing|isbn=9783319035987|editor-last=Urs|editor-first=Shalini R.|series=Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI|language=en|editor-last2=Na|editor-first2=Jin-Cheon|editor-last3=Buchanan|editor-first3=George}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/in/book/9783642136009|title=Intelligence and Security Informatics: Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2010, Hyderabad, India, June 21, 2010 Proceedings|date=2010|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=9783642136009|editor-last=Chen|editor-first=Hsinchun|series=Security and Cryptology|location=Berlin Heidelberg|language=en|editor-last2=Chau|editor-first2=Michael|editor-last3=Li|editor-first3=Shu-hsing|editor-last4=Urs|editor-first4=Shalini|editor-last5=Srinivasa|editor-first5=Srinath|editor-last6=Wang|editor-first6=G. Alan}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/in/book/9783540002611|title=Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology: 5th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2002, Singapore, December 11-14, 2002, Proceedings|date=2002|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=9783540002611|editor-last=Lim|editor-first=Ee-Peng|series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science|location=Berlin Heidelberg|language=en|editor-last2=Foo|editor-first2=Schubert|editor-last3=Khoo|editor-first3=Chris|editor-last4=Chen|editor-first4=Hsinchun|editor-last5=Fox|editor-first5=Edward|editor-last6=Shalini|editor-first6=Urs|editor-last7=Thanos|editor-first7=Costanino}}</ref> Her Google Scholar profile has more than 500 citations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=siRKADUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra|title=Shalini Urs - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2019-08-20}}</ref> She received the Emerald Research Fund Award 2007/2008 for her research "Networks and Turning Points: An Exploration of the Dynamics of Academic Networks and Social Movements in India".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/research/awards/2007_2008_lis_winners_india.htm|title=2007/2008 Emerald Research Fund Awards: Indian LIS category|website=www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>

==Vidyanidhi==

Vidyanidhi, the digital library project that was conceptualized and developed by Dr. Shalini Urs was funded by Government of India, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research under their National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT). After further funding from the [[Ford Foundation]], Vidyanihi became a national initiative. Vidyanidhi project was featured as an innovative case in the book - Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Digital Libraries|last=Tedd|first=Lucy A.|last2=Large|first2=J. Andrew|date=2004-01-28|publisher=Walter de Gruyter – K. G. Saur|isbn=9783598440052|location=Berlin, New York|doi = 10.1515/9783598440052}}</ref> Vidyanidhi was an endeavor to establish a national repository and a collaborative consortium of participating universities and academic institutions for the creation, submission, archiving and accessing of Indian theses and dissertations.<ref>{{Citation|last=Urs|first=Shalini R.|title=A Multilingual Multi-script Database of Indian Theses: Implementation of Unicode at Vidyanidhi|date=2002|work=Lecture Notes in Computer Science|pages=305–314|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|isbn=9783540002611|last2=Harinarayana|first2=N. S.|last3=Kumbar|first3=Mallinath|doi=10.1007/3-540-36227-4_36}}</ref><ref name="auto2">{{Cite journal|last=Urs|first=Shalini R.|last2=Raghavan|first2=K. S.|date=2001-05-01|title=Vidyanidhi: Indian digital library of electronic theses|journal=Communications of the ACM|volume=44|issue=5|pages=88–89|doi=10.1145/374308.374361|issn=0001-0782}}</ref>

==Conferences==

Dr. Urs was instrumental in bringing the International Conference on Asian Digital Library (ICADL), one of the biggest digital library conferences to India and organized it in [[Bangalore]] in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/fox/01fox.html|title=The 4th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2001) Digital Libraries: Dynamic Landscapes for Knowledge Creation, Access and Management, December 10-12, 2001, Bangalore, India|website=www.dlib.org|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref> She also initiated and has organized a well-known Academia-Industry Summit series called the [[Infovision|InfoVision]]-Knowledge Summit in collaboration with industries such as Rediff.com, Microsoft Research, and industry bodies such as CII and BCIC since 2005 and has brought speakers from across the globe including star speakers such as [[Jimmy Wales]] (founder of Wikipedia) and [[Prabhakar Raghavan]], Vice President of Engineering at Google and others.

==Educational institutes==

Based on her vast experience in academia, research, administration and international linkages, she was successful in setting up two educational institutes – [[International School of Information Management|International School of Information Management (ISIM)]] and MYRA. The International School of Information Management (ISiM) is the first Indian i-School and is an autonomous constituent institute of the University of Mysore, located in Mysore in Karnataka State, Southern India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.isim.ac.in/|title=ISiM - International School of Information Management|website=www.isim.ac.in|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/international-school-information-management-isim|title=International School of Information Management (ISIM)|website=www.uni-mysore.ac.in|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref> [[MYRA School of Business|MYRA]] is a business school located in Mysore, India and was founded in 2011. MYRA offers AICTE approved PGDM, PGPX and PhD.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.myra.ac.in/|title=MYRA, Top MBA, Best Management Colleges, B Schools in Mysore Karnataka|website=www.myra.ac.in|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>
She is currently on board of directors of Gooru <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gooru.org/about/team|title=Our Team|website=gooru.org|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref> and serving as the Chairperson of [[MYRA School of Business|MYRA]].<ref name="auto"/>

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