Digital Curation Strategies for Information Management in Higher Education Institutions
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2016-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
Libraries and archives have been the central institutions that not only house works of value but also
focus their efforts for preservation of them for future reuse. The term preservation is thus not unheard
of in the traditional library and archival environment where materials in paper, microform, photographic
materials are preserved. Preservation involved an array of tools and methodologies developed
to reduce the decay of traditional materials and to restore them. The preservation of traditional
printed materials however has the advantage that the collections are relatively stable for at least
decades if not centuries. The digital information, unfortunately affords no such luxury and are by their
very nature ephemeral and fragile, with a lifespan that could be weeks or days if left to themselves.
Thus, the digital preservation adds new sets of challenges for libraries and archives. Here we made an
experiment on how to manage the information using the digital curation techniques in higher educational
institutions.
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10th Convention PLANNER-2016, North-Eastern Hill University Shillong, Meghalaya, November 09-11, 2016
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Digital Curation, Information Management, Digital Library, Open Source Software