SRELS Journal of Information Management
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 48
  • Issue: 3

Technologies and Trends of Digital Preservation: An Appraisal

  • Author:
  • Dillip K. Swain1, Rabindra K. Mahapatra2
  • Total Page Count: 12
  • Page Number: 305 to 316

1School of Computer Application, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. swaindk_69@yahoo.co.in

2Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India, rkm_02@yahoo.co.in

Abstract

Digital preservation is post consideration to digitization. It is found that there is a sizeable growth in digital libraries all across the world. However, the matter of digital preservation still remains an unsolved issue. The paper puts spotlight on worldwide trends of digital preservation, technological perspectives, key strategies required for preservation and highlights global efforts on preservation with some constructive recommendations for future research on the aforesaid issue.

Keywords

Technology preservation, Emulation, Migration, Encapsulation, Digital tablets, Replication