Digital libraries preservation issues.

1. Presentation on : Preservation Issues in Digital Libraries
Presented To:
Dr. Anilkumar, H.
My Teachers &
My Friends.
VSL IIMA
Presented By:
Shanthakumara, T. N.
Library Trainee
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Vikram Sarabhai Library

2. Contents
• Introduction
• Why Digital Libraries?
• How to preserve?
• Preservation Issues
• Conclusion
• Reference

3. Introduction
What is a Digital Library?
According to William Arm (2000),
“A digital library is a organized collection of
information with associated services, where the
information is stored in digital format and
accessible over a network.”
(Reference : http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/diglib/ms1999/Chapter1.html)

4. Why Digital Libraries?
• The digital library brings the library to the user
• Information can be shared
• The information is always available
• New forms of information become possible
• Electronic storage is becoming cheaper than paper
(Reference:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/diglib/ms1999/Chapter1.html)

5. Architecture of DL
(Reference : http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/diglib/ms1999/Chapter1.html)

6. How to Preserve?
• Digitizing.
• Storing i.e. preserve.
• Creating good atmosphere.
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7. What should be Digitize?
• Rare collections.
• Important documents.
• Photographs.
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8. Preservation Issues
1.Disasters
Natural
Man made
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9. 2.Hardware & Software issues
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10. 3.Accessibility
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11. 4.Copy Rights.
This is also will be an issue?

12. Conclusion
Thus, in this presentation i was try to say
about the issues regarding to preserving our
digital contents. So, this is what we think
about before started to build a digital library.

13. References;
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservat
ion
• http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/diglib/ms199
9/Chapter1.html

14. Thank You…..