30 Years of Documentation

CED  has developed expertise in documentation and has been a pioneer in  developing documentation and networking solutions, which we share with other documentation centres and NGOs. We go through a process of  sourcing and searching of information and systematically organise these info into a well defined categories of issues, which enables its uses an easy  retrieval of information.

CED has developed a classification system in order to  store/organise a wide rangeof social/pilitical issues. And these information are selectively sourced from varousnewspapers, magazies, reports, NGO materials, reviews, books, audio recordings,films, pamphlets, dossiers, developmental websites and other electronic sources.

Physical Documentation
CED's centres in Mumbai and Bangalore host a large collection of books, non-book materials, videos, CD, electronic files. Particularly attractive are the old archives of clippings, and reports which are unique to CED and hold a complete history of contemporary issues.

Electronic Documentation
CED’s documentation is also available in Electronic form. To provide easy accessibility, we have build up the following databases, which are used to search the databases and retrieve the full documents both online and offline, in physical and in electronic form:

a) Electronic Documentation System (ELDOC) This is a database of electronic documents selectively sourced from different developmental sites. And this database also has documents from our more than 25 year old archives. This database has over 160000 records and can be accessed through our website .

b) Master Catalogue System (MCS) It is the database containing index of all the books, reports, journal articles, films, etc. available at CED. This has over 45000 records. This database is on line and the visitors to our website – www.doccentre.net can access these. The users can do field based search and make bibliographies, as well as ask for the books , AV materials and articles.

c) Under DOCSWEB, we have organised a set of interconnected hyperlinked documents on different themes. This also generates input to the various websites that CED manages and generates content for. The websites are: www.doccentre.net,www.kicsforum.net, www.inecc.net, www.citizensforpeace.in, www.setdev.kicsforum.net

Video Documentation
The main aim of the Video documentation is to capture the experiences and knowledge of local people and those in civil society, and make them available in different forms.

Archives .. Our strength

In the era of google and other serch engine, where information is a mouse click away,

CED's main strengths is its 30 year old information archive on various issues...

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