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Digital Library, Institutional Repository, Library Consortium

Dear LIS Professionals,

Can we use a single term for representing "Digital Library, Institutional Repository, Library Consortium" in  paper, i.e. "Digital Archives".

BTW Author has mentioned in abstract, that he used "digital Archives" here for denoting the  "Digital Library, Institutional Repository, Library Consortium".
please give your valuable suggestions,


thanks
pvz

 

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Dear LIS professionals, I have been posted this discussion three time over here, unfortunately I didn't get even single reply. No body is able to use his/her own mind or just.........? 

 

I hope, this time will get some useful thoughts?

 

thanks

 

pvz 

Dear PVZ,

 

Whether we can or can not use a single term "Digital Archive" in place of Digital Library, Institutional Repository, Library Consortium, i would like to mentioned the meaning of these term so we can easily understand whether these are similar or distinct.

 

Institutional Repository

An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating in digital form the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.

 

Digital Library

A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers.

Digital Archives

An archive is a collection of records, as well as the place they are located. When its available in digital format so we call it digital Archive.

 

Library Consortium

A Consortium could be described as a group of organizations who come together to fulfill

a combined objective that usefully requires co-operation and the sharing of resources. Library Consortium is an Association of a group of libraries to achieve mutually the common objective.

 

We can use a single term "Digital Archive" in place of  "Digital Library"  & "Institutional Repository" as you can get to know going thru the above mentioned meaning of these terms, but somehow consortium express its distinct meaning in terms of "Digital Library"  & "Institutional Repository".

 

So you can go with the term digital archive in place to use of two terms. Its my personal observation you can take the advise of experts also to validate it.

 

Thanks & regards,

Mohammed Yaseen

 

Dear Yaseen thanks for your valuable comments,

Actually i used "digital archives" term for representing the above three. A i feel the base of above three are same, because all are having their content in digital format for storing purpose, the functionality area cud be different.

As far as library consortium  is concerned, I am talking about only for "online journals".

So i denoted "digital archives" for digital library, institutional repository, and library consortium.

 

I hope this might be right.

 

thanks

pvz

Mr Parvez,

What i feel regarding your discussion is that Digital Library can be used in a broader sense. Archiving means preserving the past records for the future and Institutional repository means managing scholarly contents in digital format created by the institution itself. Therefore we can consider archiving is one of the services of Digital Library and Institutional Repository can be used as a narrower sense of digital library i.e digital library specifically confined only into an institution's scholarly communication. I think Consortium is the different issue.

Thank you!

 

Kankana

thanks.......mam

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