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World’s first Trusted Digital Repository
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- The National Cultural Audio-Visual Archives (NCAA) project of Ministry of Culture was certified as world’s first Trusted Digital Repository as per ISO 16363:2012 standard.
- The certification was granted by Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body Ltd. (PTAB), United Kingdom.
- NCAA is implemented by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA).
- Its primary objective is to identify and preserve cultural heritage of India available in audio-visual form through process of digitization and make it accessible to the people.
- The digitization and metadata standards followed by the Project are in parity with international standards within the overall framework of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model.
- The digitization standards are in concordance with those prescribed by the International Association of Sound & Audio-visual Archives (IASA) and the metadata schema is extended Dublin Core, followed by galleries, libraries, archives and museums worldwide.
- It is nodal agency for data bank on art, humanities and cultural heritage.
- It also has been identified by UNESCO as nodal agency for development of regional databases for South and South East Asian countries on art, cultural heritage and life-styles.
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