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ensures the usability of digital resources in spite of changing technologies. Up gradation
maintains the versions of software and hardware being used for content management and
retrieval. Outdated materials can either be archived offline or removed from the system.
Hence there is a need to constantly store, transfer, and backup data. The data can be
backed up on CD/DVD media or DAT Tape depending upon volume of information. The
new generation ‘blue-ray’ DVD technology support up to 25GB of storage capacity. The
ultrium generation 3 Tapes provide up to 100GB native capacity. It is required to maintain
a separate database on backup activities. This will be helpful in finding out the version of
backup, date etc. Also more recent backup will be taken from this database for recovery
incase of server crash.
6. Conclusion:
Library collections will continue to grow with materials in both physical and digital
formats and there are challenges for us to organize those materials so that they can be
maintained and accessed efficiently. Content preservation and retrieval are the important
issues for librarians in the network environment. Constant migration of contents in terms
of storage media, technology and software tools will ensure not only the preservation of
contents but also their accessibility in spite of ever changing technology. Although lots of
vendor based CMS tools are available in market, open source solutions will be of great
help to Digital Librarians. Notably the open source projects like e-prints, Dspace, fedora
play vital role in repository building & content management. MySQL & PHP are the most
widely used open source database and scripting technologies on the Web today and
provide a good platform for implementing and developing open source content
management systems.
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