Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage Collection

ISBN-13: 9783659116919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 172 str.

Leili Seifi;C P Ramasesh

Opis

Digitization and digital preservation in India and Iran are very vital to preserve cultural heritage collections, and also make them accessible to the scholars and public.This book attempts to study the digitization and digital preservation activities in libraries of India and Iran.Different objects like main reasons for digitization,type of collections that are being digitized,the availability of infrastructure,the budgeting areas,the storage procedures,the ways of accessibility to digital materials,the traditional and modern methods for preservation and finally challenges for digitization and digital preservation are investigated in detail.This book also gives useful suggestions for both libraries of India and Iran.This book can be very interest to library professionals in the field of digital preservation of cultural heritage worldwide.

O autorze

Leili Seifi, PhD specializes in Digital Preservation and has several research papers in journals and international conferences. She also awarded Erasmus Mundus, EU Post doctorate scholarship in 2012.C.P.Ramasesh, PhD is university librarian in University of Mysore and has more than 20 years teaching experience.