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Long Term Digital Preservation |
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Long term digital preservation strategies, national
level policies, collaborative frameworks, transition from short-term
to long-term digital preservation |
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Case studies of digital libraries, archives of cultural heritage,
scientific data, web content on Internet, citizen information,
digital preservation of museum collections, infrastructure and
solutions for digital preservation |
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Challenges for technology development and research, interdisciplinary
issues |
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Proprietary versus open source solutions for digital preservation |
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Physical deterioration versus digital obsolescence
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| Digital
Curation |
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Challenges involved in massive data storages |
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Disaster resistance and recovery, risk management |
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Long-term durability, scalability, reliability |
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Storage of data in wide variety of file formats of audio,
video, images, etc. |
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Life expectancy of storage media for backup |
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Distributed storage architecture, data grid |
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Storage management tools
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| Metadata
Standards |
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Metadata curation and tools |
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Automated metadata extraction |
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Metadata description standards |
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Adoption, enhancement and creation of metadata standards |
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Current domain specific best practices |
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Multi-lingual metadata
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| Interoperability
& Accessibility |
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Networking and access to different digital sources |
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Databases, migration paths for data conversion |
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Dissemination |
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Multimedia data mining |
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Intelligent search and retrieval, content-based search |
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Multi-lingual query |
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Interoperability between heterogeneous digital repositories |
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Multi-model and multi-platform accessibility
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| Intellectual
Copyrights & Legal Issues |
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Intellectual property on the metadata and digital content |
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Digital watermarking, steganography and data protection and
security |
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Open content licence |
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International and national level legal issues
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| Viability
& Sustainibility |
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Value added applications and tools |
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Business models |
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Digital preservation services |
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Economics of digital preservation, socio-economic dimensions |
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Cost effective approaches for digital preservation |
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Online subscription models |
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Reusability of digital content
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| Recommendation
for NDPP |
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Discuss, deliberate and define the comprehensive strategy
and recommendations for National Digital Preservation Programme
initiated by Department of Information Technology, Government
of India |
