Digital Preservation with Special Reference to the Open Archival InformationSystem (OAIS) Reference Model: An Overview

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2009-02-25

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INFLIBNET Center

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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.

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Digital Preservation, Obsolescence, OAIS

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