A service? An Architecture?

Digital Library (DL) may be seen as “Collection of intelligent creations by human beings through their own language and culture. It also reflects cultural heritage besides providing archive and generating many research issues pertaining to Natural Language Processing”

• Digital Library (DL) may be seen as “Collection of intelligent creations by human beings through their own language and culture. It also reflects cultural heritage besides providing archive and generating many research issues pertaining to Natural Language Processing”

A Service? An Architecture?

• A Service? An Architecture?

• A set of Information Resources?

• A set of tools to locate, search, retrieve information?

• Possibly the tools to create such resources and services also fall within the purview of DLs

• Digital face of traditional libraries

• Include both digital collections and traditional

• Backbone and nervous system of libraries.

Focused on digitization technology, metadata schemes, data management techniques, and digital preservation.

• Focused on digitization technology, metadata schemes, data management techniques, and digital preservation.

• Second-generation digital library

• exploring new opportunities and developing new competencies.

• Third-generation digital library

• focusing instead on fully integrating digital material into the library’s collections through a modular systems architecture.

• Hardware

• The minimum machinery to do the job

• Software

• The programs for handling data

• Digital Objects

• Articles, Conference Papers, Thesis,……

• Basic Skills

• Things one has to learn

A Server

• A Server

• You’ll need access to a web server

• A good PC

• Scanners

• Flatbed – Auto feed, Back to back

• MF

• Book Scanner

Open Source Software (OSS)

• Open Source Software (OSS)

• Dspace, E-Prints, Fedora, GSDL……

• Proprietary software you can’t avoid

• Image Editing and Optical Character Recognition Software have to be purchased

Six steps

• Six steps

• Selecting
• Acquiring
• Digitization
• Creation Of Meta Data
• Organizing
• Archiving
• Providing Access

Pure image formats: TIFF, JPEG

• Pure image formats: TIFF, JPEG

• Open encoded formats: XML, HTML, ASCII, and Unicode

• Hybrid formats: PDF, DjVu – can contain both image and text

• Proprietary formats: Microsoft Word, WordPerfect

Copyright

• Copyright

• Access copy and archive copy

• File size

• Storage media( CD, Hard disc…)

• File format ( TIFF,JPEG…)

Building digital collections of national importance from existing texts, documents, images . . .

• Building digital collections of national importance from existing texts, documents, images . . .

• Creating new digital documents & linking them

• Subject portals: Selecting and maintaining open source digital resources

• Developing / adapting management tools for digital collections

• Providing access to digital collections

• Integrating digital & other library collections

• incl. integration of OPACs, subscribed e-resources and subject portals

• Establishing services for digital libraries

• online access & offline support
• education & training of users and librarians

• Addressing social, legal, policy issues

Preservation of layout

• Preservation of layout

• Searchability of content and metadata

• Efficient image compression

• Easy browsing of books

• Accommodating low bandwidth user

• Multilingual text support

• Multipaging

Funding

• Funding

• Ministry of Communication & Information Technology (MIT)
• Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)
• Manuscript Mission of India
• Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR-TRP)
• All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
• University Grants Commission (UGC)

Library Consortium in India

• Library Consortium in India

• Scholarly Science Journals

• Theses & Dissertations

• Institutional E-Print Archives

• Books (out of copyright)

• Manuscripts

• Newspapers

• Online Courseware

• Open Access at Metadata Level

• Portal and Gateway Services

India has the largest collection of manuscripts in the world (5 million Approximately).

• India has the largest collection of manuscripts in the world (5 million Approximately).

• India is the repository of an astounding wealth of ancient knowledge belonging to different periods of history, going back to thousands of years. Most of this knowledge belonging to different areas of intellectual activity such as religion, philosophy, science, arts and literature is preserved in the form of manuscripts. Composed in different Indian languages and scripts, they are preserved in materials such as birch bark, palm leaf, cloth, wood, stone and paper.

• National Manuscript Mission was launched five-year programme in Feb., 2003 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India to get all the manuscripts and conserve them.

Gain access to the holdings of libraries worldwide through automated catalogs. Locate both physical and digitized versions of scholarly articles and books.

• Gain access to the holdings of libraries worldwide through automated catalogs. Locate both physical and digitized versions of scholarly articles and books.

• Optimize searches, simultaneously search the Internet, commercial databases, and library collections.

• Save search results and conduct additional processing to narrow or qualify results.

• From search results, click through to access the digitized content or locate additional items of interest.

• All of these capabilities are available from the desktop or other Web-enabled device such as a personal digital assistant or cellular telephone.

Digital Libraries are redefining the role of libraries in society & the role of librarians & information specialists

• Digital Libraries are redefining the role of libraries in society & the role of librarians & information specialists

• National level mechanism is essential to promote and coordinate open access and public domain digital library systems

• Improve awareness of open access
• Regular training – tools, processes, standards
• Support setting up of working models, services
• National Resource Centre for open access publishing

• International agencies like UNESCO, ICSU, ICSTI, CODATA need to actively promote and support developing country initiatives

Digitization Of Library Forum Survey 2010. IT Act . Available at www.mit.gov.in/it-bill.htm.

• Digitization Of Library Forum Survey 2010. IT Act . Available at www.mit.gov.in/it-bill.htm.

• A digital library for education: the PEN-DOR project. The Electronic Library, 17(2), 75-82.

• Government of India. 2000. “Background Report on IT for Masses” itformasses.nic.in/vsitformasses/page1.htm

• Government of India. 2000. IT for the Common Man: The Millenium IT Policy. Department of Information.