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Course:Digital Libraries Level: Postgraduate Time: Currently not offered

Syllabus Past Exams Syllabus: Historical Development of Digital Libraries. Copyright and license issues. Digitization: Software, Hardware and best practices; Scanners and scanner types; Optical character recognition and comparative study of OCR software. Open Standards and File Formats, Metadata and Metadata Standards Digital library software: Features and comparative study of Dspace, Eprints and Fedora; Harvesting Metadata, OAI-PMH and DL Interoperability; Harvester software. Digital Library Architectures; Grid architecture. Open URL integration. Digital Preservation: PREMIS. Persistent identifiers: DOI and CNRI Handles; Multilingual digital repositories and Cross-language information retrieval Reference Texts: Top of the page Past Exams

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