Preserving Digital Materials / / Ross Harvey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Harvey, Ross,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Saur, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Language: English
• Series: Current Topics in Library and Information Practice ,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. What is Preservation in the Digital Age? Changing Preservation Paradigms --; Chapter 2. Why do we Preserve? Who Should do it? --; Chapter 3. Why There’s a Problem: Digital Artifacts and Digital Objects --; Chapter 4. Selection for Preservation – The Critical Decision --; Chapter 5. What Attributes of Digital Materials Do We Preserve? --; Chapter 6. Overview of Digital Preservation Strategi --; Chapter 7. ‘Preserve Technology’ Approaches: Tried and Tested Methods --; Chapter 8. ‘Preserve Objects’ Approaches: New Frontiers? --; Chapter 9 Digital Preservation Initiatives and Collaborations --; Chapter 10. Challenges for the Future of Digital Preservation --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110253696; 9783110238570; 9783110620979; 9783110620962; 9783110636246; 9783110261189; 9783110261233; 9783110261196
• ISSN: 2191-2742
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110253696
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ross Harvey.

This book provides a single-volume introduction to the principles, strategies and practices currently applied by librarians and recordkeeping professionals to the critical issue of preservation of digital information. It incorporates practice from both the recordkeeping and the library communities, taking stock of current knowledge about digital preservation and describing recent and current research, to provide a framework for reflecting on the issues that digital preservation raises in professional practice.