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Abstract:
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Digitization has immense potential to store, preserve, disseminate and redistribute cultural
materials, if the materials are captured in a bit stream format so as to enable to access
through network for learning and understanding the history and culture of a civic society.
Generally these materials are stored in museums or in libraries, but they can be spread
over the globe and with the spread of the Internet, such contents can be made available to
any corner of the world. Universal access implicitly assumes a largely unidirectional flow of
information from the developed world to the developing world but the latter is often richer in
traditional wisdom, crafts, and cultural artifacts: digital technologies have the potential to
preserve that heritage and make it accessible.
For developing an Image Repository for photographs of Ancient cultural material by using
the advanced digital technology is a challenge, which include description of the photographs
of Indian cultural Heritage Materials, Creating Metadata from the sample, Mapping the
created metadata with Dublin Core, Developing an Image Repository System using Digital
Library open source software etc. This paper is the result of the case study of such an
attempt by the authors on exploring Open Source Digital Library Software, DSpace, for
preserving the cultural heritage materials. |