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Published/Copyright: November 28, 2013
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Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture
From the journal Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture Volume 42 Issue 4

Abstract

Libraries today face the same challenges that they always have faced, but with the additional dimension that the world of computers engenders. Policies and practices have been developed for deterring theft and for recovering stolen library materials in the analog world, but we are in an incunabula period for doing the same for digital documents-images and pictorial and sound materials. One means of protection for both kinds of materials is marking them indelibly. This can be done in a variety of ways for physical materials, but there is a new world of electronic marking that is in its infancy. This practice, called Steganography, creates digital watermarks that can be hidden, but they may also be detected and erased. This essay discusses attempts to create digital watermarks that resist tampering with.

Published Online: 2013-11-28
Published in Print: 2013-11

© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.

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https://doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2013-0030

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Masthead
  2. Contents
  3. From the Editor-in-Chief
  4. Introduction (PDT&C 42.4)
  5. PDT&C: A Forty-Year Timeline
  6. Articles
  7. Look before You License: The Use of Public Sharing Websites in Building Co-Created Community Repositories
  8. Chronicles in Preservation: Preserving Digital News and Newspapers
  9. Digital Watermarks and Palimpsest Steganography in Special Collections
  10. Reprint from Microform Review 3.3 (January 1974): 194-200
  11. User Resistance to Microforms in the Research Library
  12. Conversations
  13. The Image Permanence Institute: An Interview with James Reilly, IPI Founder and Director
  14. Current and Comments
  15. Reports
  16. Report on the 2013 Archival Education and Research Institute
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