Creation of Digital Libraries using Open Source Software
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Social Aspects &
Creation of Digital Libraries
byArun V R
KSCSTE Library, Sasthra BhavanTrivandrum
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Digital Libraries
• A library in which a significant proportion of the resources are available in machine-readable format accessible by means of computers
• The digital content may be locally held or accessed remotely via computer networks
• Some of the largest and most successful digital libraries are Project Gutenberg, Ibiblio, and the Internet Archive.
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Why Digital Libraries• Importance of equal access to diverse information for all
citizens
• Provide new opportunities for innovative educational practices
• More and more visitors … online and in the reading rooms
• No more physical SPACE CONSTRAINTS
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Why Digital Libraries…
• long-term preservation
• cost of maintaining
• users will be able to CHOOSE how to read the information
• Offering users FULL TEXT search
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Social Aspects of Digital Libraries
• Should support the professional, educational and recreational activities of diverse communities
• gap between those with and without access to digital information (Digital Divide)
• Broad Access to Content
• Infrastructure component
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Social Aspects of Digital Libraries…
• Free Flow of Ideas
• Individual Empowerment and an Informed Citizenry
• Formal Education
• Preserve intellectual and cultural assets for future generations
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Open Source• Source code available to users, who can
change the software to modify it more closely to their own requirements
• DSpace, Greenstone, E-Prints are the leading Open Source Software for developing Digital Library.
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DSpace• Open source repository software package typically
used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content.
• Software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories
• Maintained by DuraSpace
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Top Reasons To Use DSpace
• Large Community
• Free
• Customizable
• All institutions types
• Out-of-the-box
• Any digital content
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Visually how DSpace works
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Build Your Own Digital Library using Google Drive
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Digital Library in KSCSTE using Google Drive
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7oiDUJ7qUOndmxsVkFHZVJaRnM&usp=sharing
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Concluding…
For those many endangered items especially where the climate and other conditions are not friendly to paper and other library items, digitisation provides a viable alternative to preserving them for future generations.
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“Digital Library is where the past meets the present and creates the future”
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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Thank You…