Digital preservation of Old Persian periodicals in Iran with special reference to Iranian newspapers: Strategies and challenges

Author

Seifi, Leili ; Ahmadzadeh, Nashmil ; Pordel, Fatemeh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Knowledge & Inf. Studies, Univ. of Brijand, Birjand, Iran

fYear

2015

fDate

6-8 Jan. 2015

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

85

Abstract

The paper aims to investigate the statues of digital preservation of Old Persian periodicals especially the Newspapers in Iran. It also discusses strategies and challenges faced by Iranian libraries. The surveyed libraries were National Library of Iran, Malek National Library and Museum, Library of Islamic Consultative Assembly and Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi. The result of the study showed that the most metadata standards used at these libraries were METS and Doblin Core. Additionally, among strategies, the most used was backup strategy. The paper concludes that long term digital preservation of Old Persian periodicals with the help of localization metadata standards and strategies are access door for next generation to transfer historical culture of Iran.

Keywords

academic libraries; digital preservation; meta data; research libraries; Astan Quds Razavi; Doblin Core; Iranian libraries; Iranian newspapers; Library of Islamic consultative assembly; METS; Malek National Library; Museum; National Library; digital preservation; metadata standards; old Persian periodicals; Cultural differences; Libraries; Organizations; Software; Standards organizations; Challenges; Digital Preservation; Iran; Persian Periodical; Strategies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services (ETTLIS), 2015 4th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Noida

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7999-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETTLIS.2015.7048176

Filename

7048176