Preservation of Digital Resources in the 21st Century: Strategies, Challenges and the Library Professionals

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2007-02-08

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INFLIBNET Centre

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This paper deals with the various aspects related with the digital preservation. Preservation problem is complicated by the rapid obsolescence of the hardware and software required for it. Further, the technological ignorance of library personnel and users is one of the major obstacles on the way of development of Digital Libraries and its effective preservation. In this context, the paper highlights the strategies, issues and challenges, suggestions, skill requirement of the library personnel, infrastructure, system development and UNESCO’s guidelines in short.

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Digital Preservation, Medium Preservation, Intellectual, Preservation, Digital Archaeology, Copyright, IPR

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