INDIAN NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC INTERNET SERVER (INOIS) INOIS is Sponsored by NISSAT, DSIR, New Delhi.

National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, India is proud to commission and dedicate INOIS to the oceanographic community in Indian Ocean region. Indian National Oceanographic Internet Server (INOIS) is an important milestone in Indian Oceanography.

National Information Systems for Science & Technology (NISSAT) of the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR) has funded this ambitious project. Funded under its Sectoral Information Centre (SIC), programme INOIS has received a total grant of Rs.31.40 lakhs from NISSAT during the financial year 1996-97.

OBJECTIVES

• Highspeed Internet link for the Indian Oceanographic community
• Hosting Indian oceanographic information/knowledge
• Platform for online oceanographic marketing/business

ACHIEVEMENTS

• INOIS has been commissioned on Feb.27, 1997
• Oceanline - Search engine for accessing NIO Library Holdings
• Project Information System (PIS) - Search engine for viewing the past and current projects at NIO undertaken at NIO
• Site Search - Search tool to navigate INOIS
• Memory Lane - Sketching the 30 years of NIO's presence vis-a-vis Indian Oceanography
• Goa Online - Projecting Goa, a Rome of East in its best form for sustainable coastal tourism
• Internet : A New Business Space - Series of workshops at Goa (April 7-8, 1997) and Vishakhapatnam (April 25-26)

FUTURE PLANS

• MANTHAN - A unique Oceanographic Search Engine over Internet
• VARGIKI - A Web based database for Plant and Animal Taxonomy
• NIOPUB - Search Engine for accessing Publications of NIO
• IndOcean - Search tool for retrieving Indian Ocean region literature
• Daryavardi - Directory of Indian Oceanographers, Oceanographic institutions and agencies
• Virtual Marine Biodiversity and Marine Archaeology Museum

INOIS TEAM

Arvind Gosh(Project Leader)
Ehrlich Desa
D. Chandramohan
Albert Gouveia
Murari Tapaswi
Devanand Kavlekar
Mervyn Fernandes
Satesh Redkar
Ankur Duggal