Preserving Digital Materials

Name: Preserving Digital Materials
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781538102978
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By Ross Harvey and Jaye Weatherburn

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Preserving Digital Materials, now in its third edition, offers a comprehensive survey of the evolving field of digital preservation. Organised around four key questions—why, what, how, and management of digital preservation—the book serves as both a concise handbook and a reference guide. It targets a wide range of stakeholders, highlighting the growing role of new participants and the public in preserving digital content. Suitable as a textbook or professional guide, it synthesises current research and practical insights from across disciplines, making it valuable for information professionals, preservation managers, and students alike.
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This book is ideal for preservation administrators, information professionals, and students seeking a professional yet accessible introduction to the principles and practices of digital preservation. It suits those involved in managing, teaching, or engaging with digital collections and digital heritage.

This is a concise handbook for a wide range of stakeholders who need to understand how preservation works in the digital world. It synthesizes current information, research and perspectives about digital preservation from sources across many areas of practice. It will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn about how digital preservation works

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The third edition of Preserving Digital Materials provides a survey of the digital preservation landscape.

This book is structured around four questions:

1. Why do we preserve digital materials?
2. What digital materials do we preserve?
3. How do we preserve digital materials?
4. How do we manage digital preservation?

This is a concise handbook and reference for a wide range of stakeholders who need to understand how preservation works in the digital world. It notes the increasing importance of the role of new stakeholders and the general public in digital preservation. It can be used as both a textbook for teaching digital preservation and as a guide for the many stakeholders who engage in digital preservation.

Its synthesis of current information, research, and perspectives about digital preservation from a wide range of sources across many areas of practice makes it of interest to all who are concerned with digital preservation. It will be of use to preservation administrators and managers, who want a professional reference text, information professionals, who wish to reflect on the issues that digital preservation raises in their professional practice, and students in the field of digital preservation.

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Praised as the definitive guide on digital preservation, this edition reflects fifteen years of accumulated best practice. Paul Conway of the University of Michigan commends it for its clear conceptual insights into maintaining digital accessibility. Michele V. Cloonan highlights its timely and broad perspective on global digital preservation programmes, noting its careful navigation through the challenges of digital sustainability and the variety of emerging strategies.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781538102978

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 March 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

Edition: 3rd edition

Illustration: 4 tables; 32 textboxes

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 179.0mm

Height: 262.0mm

Weight: 590g

Pages: 276

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Education & Reference Jaye Weatherburn Non-Fiction Ross Harvey Science & Nature

About the Author

Dr. Ross Harvey is Adjunct Professor in Information Management in the School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University, Melbourne. He has held academic positions at universities in Australia, Singapore, and the United States, most recently in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, Boston, before returning to Australia.

Jaye Weatherburn began her career in film and television before turning to information science. She completed a Bachelor of Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, worked in live television production for many years, then retrained with a Master of Information Management. Jaye is currently working as a Digital Preservation Officer at the University of Melbourne, implementing the University’s ten-year Digital Preservation Strategy (2015-2025). For as long as Twitter is around, she can be found at: @jayechats.

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