Archive of Biology in India
The National Centre for Biological Sciences
(NCBS) is creating an archive of biology in India and also opening it to the
public. The old lab of the institute’s founder, Prof Obaid Siddiqi, will be
converted into a 1,500-sq-ft archives space which, besides chronicling NCBS’s
past, will catalogue the history of contemporary biology in the country.
Working closely with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
(TIFR), the archive is also collaborating with institutes including Delhi’s Indira
Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), Puducherry’s Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Archives and Research Library and Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science
(IISc).
“We are reaching out to archives in the USA
and Australia to get an idea of global best practices and are in the early
stages of collaboration with the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC)
Cooperative of the University of Virginia,” said Srinivasan.
Another component of the project is to set up
a digital catalogue and an open-source portal that will help people access
content more easily.
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Mr. Pralhad Jadhav
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