Design and Development of Digital Archives for Bio-bibliographic Representation

Abstract

History of the Institute, especially information about people who inhabited will be of interest for everyone to read or listen to. When history holds archival importance, it gives pleasure to understand, as it has a pivotal role in future development. RRI (Raman Research Institute) founded by Sir CV Raman in 1948, embraces the history of the archival significance of the past 70 years. As science historians one may approach history in different ways, using different ideas and methods and prioritizing different aspects. To think on these lines of the history of RRI, Library has tried capturing the 3 ‘P’ s - Profile, Publications, and Photographs of the early students of Raman Research Institute, who had the privilege to work with Sir C V Raman from 1948 to 1970. The paper describes the journey in capturing, collating and presenting the archival data in digital format on research students during Raman's era in the form of a bio-bibliographic database.