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Digital Curation

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Digital Curation is a comprehensive guide to preserving digital resources, exploring the full lifecycle from creation to long-term preservation. In its second edition, authors Ross Harvey and Gillian Oliver expand upon key concepts including metadata, appraisal policies, cloud computing impacts, data security, and emerging curation tools. This book offers practical insights into the strategies and technologies essential for maintaining digital assets over time in rapidly evolving environments.
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Ideal for information professionals, records managers, archivists, and anyone responsible for managing or curating digital materials, this book serves both as a teaching text and a practical working guide in education and reference contexts.

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This second edition of Digital Curation outlines the essential concepts and techniques that are crucial to preserving the longevity of digital resources.

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This second edition of Digital Curation outlines the essential concepts and techniques that are crucial to preserving the longevity of digital resources.

The first edition of this textbook provided an in-depth explanation of the entire digital curation lifecycle, from creation to appraisal to preservation to organisation/access to transformation, and set a benchmark for both thoroughness and clarity. In this revamped and expanded second edition, international authorities Gillian Oliver and Ross Harvey have widened the scope to address continuing developments in the strategies, technological approaches, and activities that are part of this rapidly changing field.

Useful as both a teaching text and day-to-day working guide, this book outlines the essential concepts and techniques that are crucial to preserving the longevity of digital resources and covers topics including:

  • The scope and incentives of digital curation, detailing Digital Curation Centre’s (DCC) lifecycle model as well as the Data Curation Continuum.
  • Key requirements for digital curation, from description and representation to planning and collaboration.
  • The value and utility of metadata.
  • Creating an appraisal and selection policy for digital objects that considers the needs of producers and consumers.
  • The paradigm shift by institutions towards cloud computing and its impact on costs, storage, and other key aspects of digital curation.
  • The quality and security of data.
  • New and emerging data curation resources, including innovative digital repository software and digital forensics tools.
  • Mechanisms for sharing and reusing data, with expanded sections on open access, open data, and open standards initiatives.
  • Processes to ensure that data are preserved and remain usable over time.

This book will be essential reading for any information professional, records manager, or archivist who appraises, selects, organises, or maintains digital resources and has responsibilities as a digital curator.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783300976

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 April 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Facet Publishing

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 215.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 279g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Gillian Oliver is an academic at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her PhD is from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests centre on organisational culture, and the influences this has on the way that information is managed. She is the co-author of Records Management and Information Culture (Facet 2014) and a Co-editor in Chief of Archival Science. Ross Harvey is Adjunct Professor at RMIT University and the University of South Australia.

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