Sustaining and maintaining of news and information by digitalization on “MALAYSIANA” collections

Abstract

The up-graded version of the digital archiving system of InfoLib, known as BLIS (Bernama Library & InfoLink Service), meant to sustain and maintain for easy access the news and information pertaining Malaysia. The development of BLIS is dedicated to the long-term storage and access to large quantities of documents that are in digital form (born digital) and those that were converted to digital form through a digitization process, which can be accessed via BLIS internal users and outside clients. In this paper we shall highlight on the development, design, implementation and some issues pertaining to digital activities.