FAIRFIELD INSTITUTE OF

MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

Open source and digital archives
Subject Name: BASICS OF NEW MEDIA

Subject Code: 301

Submitted to:

Submitted by: MANSI

Name of the Faculty: SS. DOGRA SIR

Enrollment no: 35190102419

Course: BAJMC

Semester/Section: 5 SEM
Open source and
Digital Archives
 INDEX
PAGE.NO
S.NO Content
1 INTRODUCTION 4
2 OPEN SOURCE 5
3 DIGITAL ARCHIVE 6
4 Digital archiving 7
advantages

5 Objectives 8
6 CONCULSION 9
7 Bibliography 10
 Introduction
OPEN SOURCE

An open-source license allows for a software product to be shared in certain ways, or for some
types of collaborative research or development. In general, open-source licensing allows the
source code of a project to be open or transparent, utilized by third parties, or changed or
manipulated by members of a developer community A permissive license is simple and is the
most basic type of open source license: It allows you to do whatever you want with the software
as long as you abide by the notice requirements. Permissive licenses provide the software as-is,
with no warranties. So permissive licenses can be summarized as follows

: ● Do whatever you want with the code

● Use at your own risk

● Acknowledge the author/contributor.

Open source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and
enhance.

"Source code" is the part of software that most computer users don't ever see; it's the code
computer programmers can manipulate to change how a piece of software—a "program" or
"application"—works. Programmers who have access to a computer program's source code can
improve that program by adding features to it or fixing parts that don't always work correctly.

Every time computer users view web pages, check email, chat with friends, stream music online,
or play multiplayer video games, their computers, mobile phones, or gaming consoles connect to
a global network of computers using open source software to route and transmit their data to the
"local" devices they have in front of them. The computers that do all this important work are
typically located in faraway places that users don't actually see or can't physically access—which
is why some people call these computers "remote computers."

More and more, people rely on remote computers when performing tasks they might otherwise
perform on their local devices. For example, they may use online word processing, email
management, and image editing software that they don't install and run on their personal
computers. Instead, they simply access these programs on remote computers by using a Web
browser or mobile phone application. When they do this, they're engaged in "remote computing."
 DIGITAL ARCHIVES

There are two types of digitally preserved archival records. Records which began life as a
physical object of some kind, e.g. a paper manuscript, a photograph, or a reel of magnetic tape
which holds a music recording. In each of the examples some action must be taken to “digitize”
the artifact, creating a digital instance such as a scan of the photograph resulting in a .tiff or .jpg
file, or an analog to digital conversion of the audio tape resulting in a 24 bit / 96kHz .wav or
.mp3 file. And there are also records which were “born digital”, e.g. a digital image .png file, an
.mp3 music file or a .wav4 audio/video file. There isn’t a physical object in this case, so the
instance that is being preserved is a “born digital” file. Until four or five years ago, there were
persistent concerns about the fixity, or alternately the ephemerality, of digital files and the
storage technology intended to preserve these files. These concerns have largely been addressed.
There are existing means to permanently preserve digital records that take into consideration all
reasonable eventualities up to and including truly extreme events. So then, for born digital
records, digital preservation is the only practical means of preserving these records for the future.
There was a brief period when digital storage technology hadn’t caught up, when printing out
records on acid free paper and preserving the paper records in buffered boxes was seriously
considered. But the digital technology has caught up and this is no longer considered reasonable.
For digital instances of physical items, the advantages can be considerable. By providing digital
instances which can be accessed from anywhere on the planet, access is greatly expanded. And
as many researchers can accomplish their goals using high quality digital instances, the potential
for damage or simple wear and tear on delicate artifacts, can be greatly reduced. A good example
are one of a kind master magnetic tape recordings. These tapes deteriorate over time, even when
they are stored under optimal conditions. And each time the tape is played a tiny amount of
damage occurs. A very high quality digital instance can be kept as a repository copy and Web-
friendly .mp3 instances made available for general access. It can be anticipated that there will
still be occasions when only the original item will do, but these can be kept to a minimum.

A digital archive is similar in purpose to a physical archive, but the historical documents and
objects that provide evidence of the past have been digitized (often by scanning or photography,
unless a document was created digitally in the first place) and made available online.

Digital archiving provides guidance on organizing, archiving, backing up, and preserving your
personal digital files in a variety of media formats, including text, photos, audio and video.

The point of archiving is to give you a central location to store mails that you no longer need
direct access to. It also ensures your inbox is kept clean and attachments and other files are kept
safe.
There are essentially two motivations for creating and maintaining digital archives.

1. First, to ensure that no valued digital information is lost to future generation, and
2. Second, certified digital archives will have available to them a critical fail-safe
mechanism.

Digital archiving advantages

A digital archiving solution will help you to manage information better and will make free from
business solutions like ECM, ERP, CRM, Indeed, where business solutions change quite often to
adapt to the daily practice, archiving solutions will preserve your information outside these
software applications.

Digital Archiving solutions will also help in following:

• Get rid of legacy applications
• Easily search information and access it faster
• Ensure integrity for legal value preservation
• Better manage retention periods and storage
• Enable paperless offices and processes
• Easily manage privacy data.

The main purpose of using digital archiving is to preserve important data or documents.
However, there are other benefits it can offer.

A few of the best advantages of digital archiving are explained below.

1. Data can be kept secured

Tangible sources of information are always subjected to the risk of damage. Fire,
flood or any similar mishaps can always be a threat. By data archiving or by
maintaining digital records, such an issue is eliminated. The information can be safely
stored. Recovering of the lost data involves a lot of cost.

2. Efficiency and speed in all aspects will be increased

Finding a document sometimes kills your time. A considerable part of working hours
gets sacrificed just in finding files. Because of legal reasons, the company may
sometimes need to store the original files but this is not required for referring
purposes. By digitizing, the files you need can be accessed within seconds thus saving
time and avoiding discomfort.
 3. A lot of space can be saved

Office rental is a challenge for many businesses. As the business grows, the
documents to be stored also increases. This makes your cabinets filled and more space
is needed. By creating softcopies, a single hard disk can securely store the complete
data thus helping you to avoid the trouble of overflowing cabinets.

4. Records remain secure, with no possibilities of unauthorized use

Business firms have realized the benefits of digital archiving, and now they are rapidly
integrating the technology to keep their records secure. Chances of online theft cannot
be completely eliminated, and you need to keep your eyes open on the safety of the
records.

5. Easily retrievable paperwork

When you go for digital archiving, you can easily archive your documents. This
technology comes with certain off-site features, which enables the users to easily track
the documents and retrieve them

6. Archiving your documents can save your costs

A large number of business firms are opting for data archiving for file storage, as this
saves them a lot of costs. The process simplifies the data storage process and off-site
storage of data saves valuable time for your company.

7. Immense flexibility is offered

As a part of cost cutting initiatives, companies are nowadays carrying out processes
through virtual offices in which resources are at remote places. Since digital files can
be transported with ease, flexibility provided is a real boon. Companies can effectively
manage their resources.
 Objectives
• Describe new media technology for mass communication
• Explain the use of online discussion forums keeping in mind cyber
law and ethics
• Understand the application of new media
• Utilize knowledge gained to design and manage a website.
 CONCLUSION

In the digital age, the amount of data produced is growing exponentially. Governments and
institutions can no longer rely on old methods for storing data and passing on the knowledge to
future generations. Digital data preservation is a mandatory issue that needs proper strategies and
tools. With this awareness, efforts are being made to create and perfect software solutions
capable of responding to the challenge of properly preserving digital information. This paper
focuses on the state-of-the-art in open-source software solutions for the digital preservation and
curation field used to assimilate and disseminate information to designated audiences. Eleven
open source projects for digital preservation are surveyed in areas such as supported standards
and protocols, strategies for preservation, methodologies for reporting, dynamic of development,
targeted operating systems, multilingual support and open source license. Furthermore, five of
these open source projects, are further analysed, with focus on features deemed important for the
area. Along open source solutions, the paper also briefly surveys the standards and protocols
relevant for digital data preservation. The area of digital data preservation repositories has
several open source solutions, which can form the base to overcome the challenges to reach
mature and reliable digital data preservation.
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