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A separate website shown in Figure 13 is maintained by the Centre that provides detailed information
about SOUL 2.0 along with the updates of software.

Technologies: Visual Studio.Net, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Server Platform

4.1. Customization of SOUL 2.0, Data Conversion and Transfer

Yatrik Patel, Scientist D (CS)
Divyakant Vaghela, Scientist B (CS)
Swapnil Patel, Scientist B (CS)

Bhargavi Kadiya, Project Officer (CS)
Nrutik Prajapati, Project Officer (CS)

The Centre offers customization of the SOUL 2.0 software on payment basis as per the requirement of

libraries. Under this offer, SOUL 2.0 can be customized according to the requirements of a library. The
Centre has customized SOUL software for many institutes including major universities namely, Banaras
Hindu University-Varanasi, Maharaja Sayajirao University-Baroda, Gujarat Vidyapith-Ahmedabad, etc.
The Centre is also providing upgrades to the institutions along with their respective customized version
of software.

The Centre provides SMS Server application that facilitates libraries to send SMS through SOUL 2.0

application using SMS Gateway on payment basis. More than 15 institutions have started using SMS
Server application services integrated with SOUL 2.0 as customised option.

The Centre is also converting client’s existing data (from any format) to SOUL 2.0 compliant format on
payment basis. During the year under report, the Centre has converted data from different format i.e.
MS Excel, MS Access, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, ISO / LibSys, etc. to SOUL 2.0 compliant format. About 2

lakh bibliographic records from 8 different institutes were processed and converted into SOUL 2.0
compliant format.

As a challenging task, bibliographic data compliant was retrieved from Web OPAC of a proprietary LMS
installed at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies Library, Shimla and was successfully converted to SOUL
2.0 compliant format.

The Centre also offers data conversion service to new users of SOUL, free-of-cost, if data volume is less

than 10,000 records.

Technologies: Visual Studio.Net, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Office

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