Digital Archive
CMCS is in the process of creating a digital archive on specific thematic areas by acquiring films from various sources.
The focus areas are:
Development, including issues of globalisation, marginalised groups, environment, disasters, movements and so on
Ethnographic film from India and other countries
The digitising of the Centre’s extensive collection of footage on various themes and the acquisition of new materials will create a valuable archive that could be accessed through a searchable data base and used to further social work and social science education, research and extension. The project also envisages active use of the web in order to disseminate information and facilitate access to the archive. When sufficient bandwidth is made available, web based access and perusal of the archive will be enhanced.
The potential users of this archive are:
Universities and other academic institutions dealing with the subject areas of social sciences and social work.
GO/NGOs involved in development education, capacity building, research, advocacy and training.
Institutions and schools of media, journalism, visual communication and design.
Individual researchers and filmmakers working on relevant issues
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