Jana, Sibsankar; Mondal, Mrinal Kanti; Marjit, Ujjal(INFLIBNET Center, February 25, 2009)
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Abstract:
Libraries are engaged in the creating and marinating digital libraries all over world. A digital
library that deals with data those are born digital as well as those that have been digitized from
their analogue form. So there is a need to preserve digital resources for future use. Since the nature
of digital data or resource is intangible and it cannot see in necked eyes so there is a need to
preserve and organized them in such a way that we can get easily access to them. Developing
preservation process for digital resources will require the integration of new methods, policies,
standards, and technologies. This paper aims to give an overview in digital preservation, highlights
some strategy and standards efforts.