Digital Library

Digital library is defined as an electronic extension of functions users typically perform and the resources they access in a traditional library. These information resources can be translated into digital form, stored in multimedia repositories, and made available through Web-based services.

From another point of view Digital Library can be defined as "Organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily available for
use by a defined community or set of communities"

This definition involves three key components, which constitute the theoretical framework underlying digital libraries, namely:

(1) People;
(2) Information resources; and
(3) Technology.

General Characteristics

  • A comprehensive collection of resources important for Scholarship, teaching & learning
  • Readily accessible to all types of users
  • Managed and maintained by professionals Advantages of Digital Library
  • Access anywhere
  • Reducing delays
  • Distributed storage - central access
  • Better cataloguing

  • Cross references to other documents
  • Full text search
  • Protected information source

  • Wide exploration and exploitation of the information

Initiatives of CDAC Noida in Digital Library

TDIL, DIT has sanctioned various projects to CDAC Noida in the area of Digital Library Mega Centre for Digital Library Under this project apart from digitization following tools are under development

  • Test Bed for OCR with workflow
  • Text summarization tool
  • Cross-lingual Information retrieval & search for Indian languages (Hindi, Punjabi & Marathi) content
  • Multilingual Crawler for Indian languages
  • Multimodal Interface for Physically Challenged
  • Automatic search indexing tools
  • Multilingual & Multimodal Authoring tools
  • Multimodal Content management tool

 

Following are our teaming partner for Digital Library

S.N.
Company
Contact Person
Email id
Base City
Contact Nos.
1
Vikram Arora
Punjab
9814166330
2
Kushal Kalyani
Indore
0731-2545772,9821331692
3
Naveen Khosla
New Delhi
9810720583
4
Mr. Aloke Vatsyayan
New Delhi
011-29811050;298110121
5
Dasigi.S.Kumar
Bangalore
080-41207661/2/3;09980947901
6
Puneet Gupta
New Delhi
09873334051
7
Abhishek Jain
New Delhi
011-41065788;9871478900
8
Shrikant Pathak
Nagpur
9
Nitesh Garg
New Delhi
011-22305133;09810577460
10
Deepak Kumar
Hyderabad
9391180767
11
Aseem Saxena
Bhopal
0755-2767839
12
PR. Modi
New Delhi
9810014680
13
Rajeev Singh
Noida
4334711;09811212049

 

Other Digital Library Projects


Mobile Digital Library

Digital Library at President's House

Digital Library at Nagari Pracharini Sabha Varanasi

Digital Library at Uttaranchal

 

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Updated on: 04 December 2007