SRELS Journal of Information Management
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 47
  • Issue: 3

Need of Digital Preservation Strategies, Issues and Challenges for Future*

  • Author:
  • R.T.D. Ramesh Gandhi1, Yekanath Ningappa2, M. Gopalswamy3, S. Raghavendra4
  • Total Page Count: 12
  • Page Number: 267 to 278

1Mysore University Library, University of Mysore, Mysore, India.

2Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, India.

3Karnataka State Open University Library, Manasagangothri, Mysore, India.

4Mysore University Library, University of Mysore, Mysore, India.

*Presented in the 7th International CALIBER 2009 held at Puducherry, February 25–27, 2009.

Abstract

Digital preservation has become the vital issue today to preserve the born digital and digitized documents. To preserve the digital documents one should require the integration of new methods, policies, standards, and technologies. Digital preservation process and technologies can be readily integrated into an operational digital preservation framework. Preservation of digital information programs are under way across the globe. In this paper an attempt has been made to find out the digital preservation strategies, techniques, objectives, challenges and issues. Such a study is important because for the ultimate success of the digital preservation programs in the era of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) across the world.

Keywords

Digital preservation, Strategies, Technologies, Issues, Challenges emulation, Encapsulation