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| + | Noolaham's primary function is to archive and preserve physical and digital sources for the long term. In addition cataloging, classification, and distribution of collected sources are of our concerns. Wherever possible physical sources are collected and digitalzed. Text and images are digitalized in high quality for preservation and possible optical character recoginition. Smaller size and web suitable versions (usually pdfs) are created for online distribution. | ||
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Revision as of 15:18, 18 September 2011
The Technology Division provides technical support to the activities and projects carried out by the Foundation. Technology activities are managed by Technology Team.
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Archiving and Preserving Technology
Noolaham's primary function is to archive and preserve physical and digital sources for the long term. In addition cataloging, classification, and distribution of collected sources are of our concerns. Wherever possible physical sources are collected and digitalzed. Text and images are digitalized in high quality for preservation and possible optical character recoginition. Smaller size and web suitable versions (usually pdfs) are created for online distribution.
We selectively adopt other established instutional standards for scanning, archiving and preservation.
Equipment
Backup
There is backup and restore plan in inplace to ensure the Noolaham Foundation's long term preservation of its work from technical or other failures. The goal is to have robust mechanism to regularly backup all necessary work in multiple geographical locations and restore promptly when needed.
Noolaham Digital Library consists of three main components: the data files (pdfs, html, images), the database with metadata, and the website. All three are backed on a weekly bases on three different geographical locations.
Digital Library Software
Currently Mediawiki is being used as the digital library software for Noolaham Digital Library. Mediawiki is being currently used because it is free, easy to use and maintain. However, considering our growing needs we are in the process of transitioning into a proper institutional repository software.
Currently Noolaham technical team is evaulating various digital library software for implimentation. The following features are identified as priorities:
- Multimedia support
- Meta-data
- File system
- Search
- Browsing
- Multilinqual support
- Scalability
- Extendability
- Easy of maintenance
- Software community
Hosting
Hosting of the Noolaham digital library involves considerable IT implementation. The storage and bandwidth are two major concerns. Currently the library is hosted in a LAMP platform. The storage requirements exceed 350GB. Is being hosted by webspace2host.in as in-kind donation.
