Digital preservation of Old Persian periodicals in Iran with special reference to Iranian newspapers: Strategies and challenges

The paper aims to investigate the statues of digital preservation of Old Persian periodicals especially the Newspapers in Iran. It also discusses strategies and challenges faced by Iranian libraries. The surveyed libraries were National Library of Iran, Malek National Library and Museum, Library of Islamic Consultative Assembly and Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi. The result of the study showed that the most metadata standards used at these libraries were METS and Doblin Core. Additionally, among strategies, the most used was backup strategy. The paper concludes that long term digital preservation of Old Persian periodicals with the help of localization metadata standards and strategies are access door for next generation to transfer historical culture of Iran.