Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Archive of Biology in India


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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