Partners for Preservation

Name: Partners for Preservation
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781783303472
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Advancing digital preservation through cross-community collaboration

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Partners for Preservation explores the complex challenges of digital preservation faced by archivists today. Featuring contributions from international experts across diverse fields, this book highlights the evolving digital landscape marked by rapid technological change and the increasing variety of digital formats and platforms. It emphasises the need for archivists to collaborate with partners from various professions to effectively address issues related to the internet of things, digital architecture, research data, open source programming, privacy, and digital inheritance.
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This book is essential reading for professional archivists, digital preservation specialists, and students of archival studies seeking to broaden their understanding of collaborative approaches in preserving digital records.

Who could be partners to archivists working in digital preservation? This book features chapters from international contributors from diverse backgrounds and professions discussing their challenges with and victories over digital problems that share common issues with those facing digital preservationists.

Description

The only certainty about technology is that it will change. The speed of that change, and the ever-increasing diversity of digital formats, tools, and platforms, will present stark challenges to the long-term preservation of digital records. Archivists are frequently challenged by the technical expertise, subject matter knowledge, time, and resource requirements needed to solve the broad set of challenges sure to be faced by the archival profession. Partners for Preservation advocates the need for archivists to recruit partners and learn lessons from across diverse professions to work more effectively within the digital landscape.

Includes discussion of:

the internet of things
digital architecture
research data and collaboration
open source programming
privacy, memory, and transparency
inheritance of digital media

This book will be useful reading for professional archivists and others responsible for digital preservation, students of archival studies, and digital preservation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783303472

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 January 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Facet Publishing

Contributors:

Edited by Jeanne Kramer-Smyth

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 224

Collections

Computing & Technology Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Jeanne Kramer-Smyth has been an archivist with the World Bank Group Archives for five years. She earned her Masters of Library Science from the Archives, Records and Information Management Program at the University of Maryland iSchool after a 20 year career as a software developer designing relational databases, creating custom database software and participating in web based software development. She is the author of Spellbound Blog where she has published dozens of essays exploring the intersection of archives, technology, metadata, visualization and the web.