Digital Preservation : How can the Process be Designed in New Different Way ?

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2004-02

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INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad

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The paper intends to focus on the preservation of digital resources and challenges, scope of the problem, methods of preservation. Preservation constitutes one leg of a tripod that supports informational institutions such as libraries and other leg being access and the development and management of corrections. Without preservation, access becomes impossible and collections will delay and disintegrate. Digital preservation means the planning, resource allocation and application of preservation methods and technologies necessary to ensure that digital information of continuing value remain accessible and usable. The purpose of preservation is to ensure protection of information of enduring value for access by present and future generation.

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Digital Preservation, Digital Resources, Digital Libraries, Storage media, Digital Archiving, Prototype

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