Unit - VIII

1. Library Automation – Areas, Planning, Selection of Hardware and Software, Implementation and Evaluation; Standards for Library Automation. 

2. Barcode, RFID, QR Code, Biometric, Smartcard: Features and Applications. 

3. Digitization – Planning, Selection of Materials, Hardware, Software, Process, Issues. 

4. Digital Library: Genesis, Characteristics, Types, Architecture; Standards, Formats and Protocols, DOI. 

5. Digital Preservation - Need, Purpose, Standards, Methods, Techniques, Projects (National and International). 

6. Digital Library Initiatives – National and International. 

7. Institutional Repositories - Need, Purpose, Types and Tools; Institutional Repositories in India; ROAR, DOAR, SHARPA-ROMIO. 

8. Content Management Systems – Architecture, Data Integration, CMS Software – Selection, Implementation and Evaluation. 

9. Application of Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and Robotics in Libraries; Social Mobile Analytics Cloud (SMAC); Cloud Computing. 

10. Ontology – Tools (RDF, RDFS, Potege); Semantic Web, Linked Data, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Harvesting.