Digital Preservation Strategy: Center for Quranic Studies- Indonesia
Nina Mayesti, Yeni Budi Rachman, Yayan Maryani · 2011
The Centre for Quranic Studies (CQS) is the educational institution that has vision to implementing Qur'anic teachings in Indonesian pluralistic society. CQS tries to implement Qur'anic teachings with no conceptual tension in the society. It attempts to enlighten the society with continuity and harmony. This is relevant to the principle: maintaining the values which have already existed and accommodating newly positive values. CQS digital library was the first and the most complete Quran and Tafsir library in digital form in Indonesia. This library gives the ease for the community as user of the library in getting information about the contents of Al Quran. The library provides reference and services pertaining to actual, dynamic, comprehensive and high quality Quranic studies. The digital collection consist e-book, audio-video, the interpretation manuscript, books turats and contemporary software, and thesis. Realised that this digital collection was often accessed by the user, then the CQS digital library tries to maintain digital preservation continuously. This paper discusses how the digital preservation strategy that was carried out by the CQS library, so that the digital collection could to be accessed by the user in a long period. This study is a qualitative research with descriptive design. This research data were acquired by interview, observation, and document analysis that were collected, reducted, interpretated, and presented in narration order. The result of this study shows that strategy which has been used by the Center for Quranic Studies Library in preserving their digital collections comprise of technology preservation, migration, and emulation.