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Preserving Digital Materials
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English
Published/Copyright:
2012
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This book provides a single-volume introduction to the principles, strategies and practices currently applied by librarians and recordkeeping professionals to the critical issue of preservation of digital information. It incorporates practice from both the recordkeeping and the library communities, taking stock of current knowledge about digital preservation and describing recent and current research, to provide a framework for reflecting on the issues that digital preservation raises in professional practice.
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Ross Harvey, Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Figures
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. What is Preservation in the Digital Age? Changing Preservation Paradigms
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Chapter 2. Why do we Preserve? Who Should do it?
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Chapter 3. Why There’s a Problem: Digital Artifacts and Digital Objects
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Chapter 4. Selection for Preservation – The Critical Decision
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Chapter 5. What Attributes of Digital Materials Do We Preserve?
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Chapter 6. Overview of Digital Preservation Strategi
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Chapter 7. ‘Preserve Technology’ Approaches: Tried and Tested Methods
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Chapter 8. ‘Preserve Objects’ Approaches: New Frontiers?
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Chapter 9 Digital Preservation Initiatives and Collaborations
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Chapter 10. Challenges for the Future of Digital Preservation
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
November 30, 2011
eBook ISBN:
9783110253696
Hardcover published on:
November 17, 2011
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110253689
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
10
Main content:
251
Illustrations:
11
Audience(s) for this book
Libraries, Institutes, Professionals
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