Digital Preservation in The Twenty First Century: Concept, Needs, Problems and Solutions
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2006-11-09
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INFLIBNET Centre
Abstract
More and more information is being created in digital form. This is done either through
converting existing materials to digital form or increasingly born digital. There is no
other format but digitise the original. There are increasing expectations in all spheres of
life the information we all need will be available on the Internet or at least in an off-line
digital format, such as CD-ROM. Digital access has many advantages over paper-based
or microform access in terms of convenience and functionality. The present paper deals
with the concept of preservation and digital preservation. Difference between digital
and paper-based material are discussed. The paper highlights the objective and benefits
of digital preservation. Preservation by document type like electronic journals,
theses and dissertation, scientific data sets etc. and standard by document type like
Text, images, numeric data, and video and audio are briefly discussed. The paper throws
light on the problem and solution of digital preservation.
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Digital Preservation, Digital Objects