PLANNING, DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND DIGITAL PRESERVATION

Abstract

Planning is used to provide backbone for any digital library. There are some points to be kept in mind when plan for creating digital library is Information Needs. There are three main components of any library i.e. resources, librarian and the most important one is its user. The key challenges in front of designing any Digital Library are building the Resources, Interoperability, Intellectual Property and Effective Access. These principles acts as a base while building a Digital library.The most important component of a digital library is digital collection it holds or has access to. A digital library can have a wide range of resources. A digital library is not a single entity although it may have digital contents created in-house or acquired in digital formats stored locally on servers.Digital preservation combines policies, strategies and actions to ensure access to reformatted and born digital content regardless of the challenges of media failure and technological change. The goal of digital preservation is the accurate rendering of authenticated content over time.