Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Name: Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781442278714
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By Edward M. Corrado and Heather Moulaison Sandy

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Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums offers the most current and comprehensive guide to digital preservation. It addresses management challenges and best practices beyond mere technology, emphasising the long-term life cycle of digital objects. The book covers a wide range of topics divided into four parts: situating digital preservation, management aspects, technology aspects, and content-related aspects, aiming to equip readers with essential knowledge for effective digital preservation initiatives across various institutions.
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Essential reading for administrators, practitioners, managers, and technical staff involved in digital preservation within libraries, archives, museums, and similar cultural heritage organisations seeking long-term access and preservation strategies.

This new edition of Digital Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums is the most current, complete guide to digital preservation available today. The book is divided into four parts: 1.Situating Digital Preservation, 2.Management Aspects, 3.Technology Aspec...

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This new edition of Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums is the most current, complete guide to digital preservation available today.

For administrators and practitioners alike, the information in this book is presented readably, focusing on management issues and best practices. Although this book addresses technology, it is not solely focused on technology. After all, technology changes and digital preservation is aimed for the long term. This is not a how-to book giving step-by-step processes for certain materials in a given kind of system. Instead, it addresses a broad group of resources that could be housed in any number of digital preservation systems. Finally, this book is about things I wish I knew before I got started.

Digital preservation is concerned with the life cycle of the digital object in a robust and all-inclusive way. Many Europeans and some North Americans may refer to digital curation to mean the same thing, taking digital preservation to be the very limited steps and processes needed to ensure access over the long term. The authors take digital preservation in the broadest sense of the term: looking at all aspects of curating and preserving digital content for long term access.

The book is divided into four parts:

Situating Digital Preservation
Management Aspects
Technology Aspects
Content-Related Aspects

Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums will answer questions that you might not have even known you had, leading to more successful digital preservation initiatives.

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Experts praise this book for its thorough and well-researched approach, highlighting the authors’ focus on the inter-connected areas of management, technology, and content—the ‘digital preservation triad’. It provides practical models useful for libraries, archives, and museums of all sizes. Reviewers commend its accessibility to both managerial and technical staff and its perspective that digital preservation is an opportunity rather than a problem.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781442278714

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 January 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 161.0mm

Height: 237.0mm

Weight: 726g

Pages: 402

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Education & Reference Edward M. Corrado Heather Moulaison Sandy Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

A librarian, administrator, and information technology expert, Edward M. Corrado is Associate Dean, Library Technology Planning and Policy at the University of Alabama where he is responsible for the information technology operations and planning, and executing a strategic vision for library technology. He has published and presented nationally and internationally on various topics including digital preservation, cloud computing, open source software, emerging technologies in libraries, and the role of libraries in democracy 2.0. He earned his MLS from Rutgers University.

Heather Moulaison Sandy is assistant professor at the iSchool at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on the intersection of organization of information (e.g., cataloging and classification, and metadata) and digital information technologies (e.g., digital libraries and platforms), with the long-term access to materials emerging as a natural combination of the two. Moulaison Sandy has published and presented nationally and internationally in these areas. Her teaching interests stem from these interests as well, with Moulaison Sandy teaching classes in both areas at the iSchool.