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A Techno-Legal Analysis Of Digital Preservation In India

Digital Preservation is neither a technical nor a legal issue. Rather it is a techno-legal mandate that requires domain specific techno-legal expertise. The technology as well as legal issues are involved almost with all the segments of the society. The scope of digital preservation is increasing and so is its importance. The resource abovementioned is one of the few techno-legal resources that are analysing digital preservation from a techno-legal perspective.

Consolidation Of Digital Preservation In India

We have consolidated our efforts in the direction of Digital Preservation and the same is now available in the form of the initiative titled “Legal Enablement Of ICT Systems In India”. From now onwards all issues pertaining to Digital Preservation would be primarily dealt with by us at that platform. Of course, the Policy and Strategy Issues pertaining to ICT would continue to be discussed at Reclaiming India. Resource shifted, will be back soon at the current resource.

AHDS 10 Year Timeline

A timeline of significant events in the history of the AHDS (1996-2006)

AHDS Website

The front page for the AHDS website, containing information about the AHDS organisation, projects and guides.

Ampère's correspondence

The complete André-Marie Ampère's correspondence, with manuscripts images, search engine, sources and online transcriptions are now online. This project, funded by ANR and CNRS (France), is edited by Christine Blondel (CNRS researcher) and realised by the IT team of CRHST and CN2SV.

Arts and Humanities Data Service Preservation Handbooks

The AHDS series of Preservation Handbooks identify significant properties of the data types provide instruction for AHDS staff on how best to preserve digital objects, in accordance with "a migration based preservation approach, incorporating migration to standard formats during ingest." While created with this internal purpose in mind, they may well be of interest to other users and are made available to download.

Audiovisual archives: A practical reader

Contents Foreword Section I: Introduction to audiovisual archives 1 1.1 Audiovisual archives 1.2 Nature of the AV media 1.3 Worldview and paradigm of AV archiving 1.4 Audiovisual records as archival material 1.5 General principles of audiovisual archiving 1.6 A Typology of media archives 1993 1.7 The AV archive: definition and typology Legal issues in audiovisual archives 1.8 Legal issues facing audiovisual archives 1.9 Legal issues in AV archives: an introduction 1.10 Copyright, neighbouring rights and film archives 1.11 UNESCO AV Copyright meeting report. December 5-6 1994 Ethical issues 1.12 Ethics 1.13 Ethics and new technology Section II: Collection: history, development and management 2.1 Approaches to the national organisation of sound archives 2.2 History and organization of moving image archives 2.3 Records management in sound archives 2.4

Automatic Book Scanner RBSpro TT

Robotic Book Scanner RBSpro TT - stands for TableTop , and is a new generation of affordable and compact robotic book scanners.

Controlled Vocabulary

A site that contains valuable information on creating controlled vocabulary for archiving, knowledge base and content sites that are likely to be sharing images and other media assets.

Cyber Forensics And Digital Preservation

Digital preservation (DP) is very wide in scope. It covers almost all the segments of public dealings. An interesting application of DP arises in cases of forensics including cyber forensics. Forensic digital data bank management is a complex DP process. The data bank contains information on intimate and non-intimate objects. Along with the management issues legal requirements are also involved. The civil liberty issues like privacy rights, ethical issues and human rights occasionally require legal authority and permissions. Some data banks are for temporary period (for identification) whereas others are to be preserved for long period (convicted persons). Also the non-intimate objects like paint, glass, fiber, ink, toner, cartridge, bullet etc need long term preservation. Data should be in the databank till conviction or till death of the criminal. Data collection is a problem and updating it is even bigger. Forensic Data Banks are used for detection and prevention of crime (face,

DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries

DELOS is a Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, partially funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies Programme (IST). The main objective of DELOS is to coordinate a joint programme of activities of the major European teams working in digital library related areas. See also DELOS' Digital Preservation Cluster at http://www.dpc.delos.info/

Digital Curation Centre

The main web site of the UK Digital Curation Centre

Digital Curation Centre - Development team

This is the web site and Wiki of the DCC Development team

Digital Preservation: An Overview

A webcast version of a presentation entitled ‘Digital Preservation: An Overview’ delivered by digital archives consultant Peter Van Garderen on October 13, 2006 at the Managing Information Assets in the Public Sector Conference in Edmonton, Canada. The presentation gives an introduction to the problem of digital preservation, the various initiatives and tools that are attempting to address this problem, and outlined how the OAIS standard can be used as the basis of developing an institutional digital preservation strategy. It includes a list of 50 citations and references that were used in the presentation. Check it out if you would like a guided tour of the world of digital preservation or if you are simply curious how Monty Python’s Holy Grail, Mad Max the Road Warrior and the Sesame Street muppets all made it into a presentation on digital preservation.

Digital Preservation And National ICT Policies And Strategies

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is becoming a major tool for economic growth and societal development. Digital Preservation (DP) being an important part of ICT also requires attention at the national policy level. The ICT Policies and Strategies of a nation must incorporate sufficient provisions regarding DP so that it may grow and develop. However, DP is a neglected issue in developing and under developed countries that are otherwise rich in culture, heritage, natural resources, etc. This resource is providing valuable inputs for ICT Policies and Strategies to Indian Government along with suggestion for National Digital Preservation Programme Of India.