A Review of the Status of Indian Academic Libraries in the 20th Century

Abstract

Although digital libraries hold the power to create an easily accessible repository of fossil data, remove geographic barriers, and preserve the integrity of fossils, such a library poses unique problems due to the nature of the data. These problems include how to catalog, acquire, and preserve the data, in addition to how to protect the rights of those who create and own the data (Hardesty et al., 2020). Literature about previous and existing digital fossil libraries and similar digital libraries containing 3D data provides important insight into how to create, maintain, and grow a repository of 3D fossil data moving forward.