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Digital Preservation in India by Baljeet Singh — last modified 02-07-2009 10:11

Digital Preservation involves a systematic and sustained management of digital information, content, media, etc for a durable period. Digital Preservation requires a different outlook as compared to other traditional information. Invent of an updated and better version of the previous technologies is considered to be one of the main obstacles for preserving digital information. This is so because though we can still access the written heritage from several thousand years ago, yet the digital information created merely a decade ago is in serious danger of being lost forever. Besides certain obstacles in the process of digital preservation, India will also face various “Legal Hurdles” and the prominent among them are those raised by Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). This is more so for the IPRs in the digital era.

Digital Preservation In India: The Hurdles And Their Solutions by Baljeet Singh — last modified 02-07-2009 10:11

It is very important that the ICT Strategies and Policies of India and other countries must not only be suitable but should also believe in a “holistic application and implementation”. The use of ICT has a social aspect as well. India being a Welfare State, the social structure cannot be given a complete go bye. This makes the analysis of ground reality of India inevitable keeping in mind the socio-economic, political and social conditions prevailing in India. The biggest problem with Indian ICT strategies and policies is that “localisation” and “Indianisation” are missing. We cannot blindly adopt and superimpose foreign models and ideas. They are bound to be a big flop show if we ignore the grass-root problems existing in India. Emphasis must be laid down upon solving the local problems by using local solutions.