The purpose of this study was to identify the digital curation practices in Institutional
Repositories (IRs) in South India.
A voluntary survey was conducted among the IR managers of 23 South Indian IRs, and the
response rate was 87%.
This study found that the active participation of South Indian IRs was only seen in a few digital
curation activities. However, Of the 33 digital curation activities analyzed, the active
participation of IRs was only seen in ten digital curation activities. The performance of
preservation activities was extremely low, and disagreements were recorded by the survey
participants towards several digital curation activities. The most disagreed digital curation
activities were emulation and cease data curation. All the participants had assigned metadata and
allowed file download in their IRs. Raman Research Institute had provided a good number of
digital curation services in their IR.
This is an in-depth study investigating the digital curation practice currently underway in South
Indian IRs, and the researcher could not find similar studies in this niche.
Emerald allows authors to deposit their AAM under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial
International Licence 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Beena, C; Padmakumar, P K; Archana, S N(Journal ot'Librar)= and Information Management, June , 2010)
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Abstract:
Open access iiiovemerit and open source software movement plays an important
role in creation of knowledge, knowledge management and knowledge
dissemination. Scholarly communication and publishing are increasingly taking
place in the electronic environment. With a growing proportion of the
scholarly record now existing only in digital format, serious issues regarding
access and preservation are being raised that are central to future scholarship.
Institutional Repositories provide access to past. present and future scholarly
literature and research documentation; ensures its preservation; assists users in
discovery and use; and offers educational programs to enable users to develop
lifelong literacy. This paper explores these aspects on how IR of Cochin
University of Science & Technology supports scientific community for knowledge
creation. knowledge Management, and knowledge dissemination.
Description:
Journal Of Library and Information Management Vol.1 No.1,January -June 2010,PP 38-44