Digital Archiving of Audio Content Using Winisis and Greenstone Software: a Manual for Community Radio Managers

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is promoting as a low cost medium for information dissemination. The spread is enabling a shift from conventional communication patterns between organizations and individuals. Using ICT, it has become possible to gratify the needs of individual over a large geographic area allowing sharing knowledge and creation and instantaneous dissemination of learning resources. Multimedia objects like video and audio content can significantly augment the learning and communication experience. The proliferation of information content in digital form and availability of e-resources supported with online publishing and resource sharing has encouraged the development of digital libraries which are concerned with the collection, organization of digital content of information resources and delivery to the end users with the help of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools and techniques. FOSS has brought many useful tools to scholars, teachers, students and others.