Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/1944/513
Title: Newspaper Digital Archives Need In Networked World
Authors: Chandran, D
Keywords: Digital Archives
Newspaper
Issue Date: 8-Feb-2007
Publisher: INFLIBNET Centre
Abstract: Newspaper has been considered as an important source of information. The generation of current varieties of information in large quantity makes it distinct from the information media. A large number of newspapers published throughout the world with mountain of information create severe problem for the information professionals regarding the storage and retrieval of such information. Considering the specialties and importance of newspaper as information media, the issue is of special concern for the information professionals. Several newspaper information retrieval systems and projects in different countries, mostly in developed world, are found to cater the retirements of users on a regular basis, besides most of the developed countries have established their own newspaper information retrieval systems. Newspapers are particularly both to preserve and to access they are large in format, prolific in output. A number of techniques were developed to preserve and retrieve the information available in newspapers. Among them, Digital preservation is the recent one. This led to create its own archive for newspapers. The author presented an overview about newspaper archive initiatives worldwide.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/513
ISBN: 978-81-902079-4-2
Appears in Collections:CALIBER 2007:Chandigarh

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