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Author : Janet Delve,David Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783302992
This ground-breaking edited collection explores the challenges of preserving complex digital objects such as simulations, visualisations, digital art and video games.
Author : David Giaretta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642168093
There is growing recognition of the need to address the fragility of digital information, on which our society heavily depends for smooth operation in all aspects of daily life. This has been discussed in many books and articles on digital preservation, so why is there a need for yet one more? Because, for the most part, those other publications focus on documents, images and webpages – objects that are normally rendered to be simply displayed by software to a human viewer. Yet there are clearly many more types of digital objects that may need to be preserved, such as databases, scientific data and software itself. David Giaretta, Director of the Alliance for Permanent Access, and his contributors explain why the tools and techniques used for preserving rendered objects are inadequate for all these other types of digital objects, and they provide the concepts, techniques and tools that are needed. The book is structured in three parts. The first part is on theory, i.e., the concepts and techniques that are essential for preserving digitally encoded information. The second part then shows practice, i.e., the use and validation of these tools and techniques. Finally, the third part concludes by addressing how to judge whether money is being well spent, in terms of effectiveness and cost sharing. Various examples of digital objects from many sources are used to explain the tools and techniques presented. The presentation style mainly aims at practitioners in libraries, archives and industry who are either directly responsible for preservation or who need to prepare for audits of their archives. Researchers in digital preservation and developers of preservation tools and techniques will also find valuable practical information here. Researchers creating digitally encoded information of all kinds will also need to be aware of these topics so that they can help to ensure that their data is usable and can be valued by others now and in the future. To further assist the reader, the book is supported by many hours of videos and presentations from the CASPAR project and by a set of open source software.
Author : Marilyn Deegan,Simon Tanner
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781856044851
Digital preservation is an issue of huge importance to the library and information profession right now. With the widescale adoption of the internet and the rise of the WWW, the world has been overwhelmed by digital information. Digital data is being produced on a massive scale by individuals and institutions: some of it is born, lives and dies only in digital form, and it is the potential death of this data that is the concern of this volume. So how can information professionals try to remedy this situation? Digital preservation is a complex issue, with many different aspects and views, so in this book each chapter is written by an international expert on the topic. Many case studies and examples are used to ground the ideas and theories in real concerns and practice. This volume will arm the information professional with the knowledge they need about this important and pressing issue and give examples of best practice to help find a way to a solution for this problem. Chapters cover: formats of digital data authenticity of digital data preservation strategies international trends in digital preservation web archiving metadata institutional policies the cost of digital preservation and cost of data loss. Written by leading international experts in digital library development, each book in the Digital Futures series examines in detail some of the key strategic and practical issues facing libraries and other cultural institutions in the rapidly expanding world of digital information. Readership: This is an indispensable guide for all information managers, librarians and archivists. Others in the information and culture world, such as museum curators, media professionals and web content providers will also find it essential reading, as will students of digital culture on library and information studies and other courses.
Author : Adrian Brown
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781856047555
A practical guide to the development and operation of digital preservations services for organizations of any size Practical Digital Preservation offers a comprehensive overview of best practice and is aimed at the non-specialist, assuming only a basic understanding of IT. The book provides guidance as to how to implement strategies with minimal time and resources. Digital preservation has become a critical issue for institutions of all sizes but until recently has mostly been the preserve of national archives and libraries with the resources, time and specialist knowledge available to experiment. As the discipline matures and practical tools and information are increasingly available the barriers to entry are falling for smaller organizations which can realistically start to take active steps towards a preservation strategy. However, the sheer volume of technical information now available on the subject is becoming a significant obstacle and a straightforward guide is required to offer clear and practical solutions. Each chapter in Practical Digital Preservation covers the essential building blocks of digital preservation strategy and implementation, leading the reader through the process. International case studies from organizations such as the Wellcome Library, Central Connecticut State University Library in the USA and Gloucestershire Archives in the UK illustrate how real organizations have approached the challenges of digital preservation. Key topics include: • Making the case for digital preservation • Understanding your requirements • Models for implementing a digital preservation service • Selecting and acquiring digital objects • Accessioning and ingesting digital objects • Describing digital objects • Preserving digital objects • Providing access to users • Future trends. Readership: Anyone involved in digital preservation and those wanting to get a better understanding of the process, students studying library and information science (LIS), archives and records management courses and academics getting to grips with practical issues.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422318591
Author : Ross Harvey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110253696
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.
Author : Trevor Owens
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421426976
Based on extensive reading, research, and writing on digital preservation, Owens's work will prove an invaluable reference for archivists, librarians, and museum professionals, as well as scholars and researchers in the digital humanities.
Author : Jeremy Myntti,Jessalyn Zoom
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838917138
In today’s information landscape, there are fewer topics that more urgently demand expansive discourse than digital preservation, which touches on everything from technology to copyright. The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) steps up to the challenge with this comprehensive overview. Global in scope, it features case studies and contributions that discuss such key issues as the history of digital preservation; digital preservation and information ethics; strategies for getting started, sustaining digitization programs, and performing evaluation; fine-tuning digital preservation workflows, with a look at Digital Streams Matrix for analyzing pathways and tasks; preserving e-books, mobile device data, and other specific types of materials; collaborative efforts in digital preservation, including jargon-free techniques for engaging non-technical colleagues in digital legacy tools and processes; and the copyright, legal, and administrative issues connected with digital preservation. Academic librarians, technical services staff, technologists, and administrators will all benefit from this incisive collection.
Author : Edward M. Corrado,Heather Moulaison Sandy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442278738
This new edition of Digital Preservation in 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 (not technology; not how-to; not theory) 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 insure 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 part: 1.Situating Digital Preservation, 2.Management Aspects, 3.Technology Aspects, and 4.Content-Related Aspects. Digital Preservation will answer questions that you might not have even known you had, leading to more successful digital preservation initiatives.
Author : Tomasz Traczyk,Włodzimierz Ogryczak,Piotr Pałka,Tomasz Śliwiński
Publisher : Springer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319518015
This book addresses the process of maintaining digital objects through time to ensure continued access, an aspect that has become a crucial issue in recent years. It offers a concise yet comprehensive discussion of key concepts and requirements for long-term digital preservation, and presents a pioneering framework for digital repositories that enables the long-term archiving and metadata management for large volumes of digital resources based on a system that has already been completely designed and launched. In the framework, the reliability of information readouts is ensured by the repository with two-level data recording replication and monitoring mechanisms in the repository management system (RMS) and the file systems, and by the RMS’s distributed nature. The advanced RMS allows operations on the archival storage to be scheduled, while also taking into account low energy consumption requirements. After presenting the framework in detail, the book assesses and demonstrates the approach’s viability in terms of delivering accessibility, authenticity and usability. As such, the book offers a valuable resource for information technology (IT) researchers and practitioners, as well as archivists and librarians.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Digital preservation
ISBN : IND:30000128934506
Author : Ross Harvey,Jaye Weatherburn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781538102985
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.
Author : Natalie Greene Taylor,Caitlin Christian-Lamb,Michelle H. Martin,Bonnie Nardi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030157425
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information in Contemporary Society, iConference 2019, held in Washington, DC, USA, in March/April 2019. The 44 full papers and 33 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submitted full papers and 88 submitted short papers. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Scientific work and data practices; methodological concerns in (big) data research; concerns about “smart” interactions and privacy; identity questions in online communities; measuring and tracking scientific literature; limits and affordances of automation; collecting data about vulnerable populations; supporting communities through public libraries and infrastructure; information behaviors in academic environments; data-driven storytelling and modeling; online activism; digital libraries, curation and preservation; social-media text mining and sentiment analysis; data and information in the public sphere; engaging with multi-media content; understanding online behaviors and experiences; algorithms at work; innovation and professionalization in technology communities; information behaviors on Twitter; data mining and NLP; informing technology design through offline experiences; digital tools for health management; environmental and visual literacy; and addressing social problems in iSchool research.
Author : Erin O'Meara,Kate Stratton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Archival materials
ISBN : 1931666954
Author : Adrian Brown,Ross Harvey,Anne E. Bülow,Jess Ahmon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2872 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178330085X
The Facet Preservation Collection includes eight books written by leading academics and practitioners containing cutting-edge information and practical guidance on preservation for libraries, archives and museums. The books included in the Collection are, Practical Digital Preservation: A how-to guide for organizations of any size by Adrian Brown; 2) Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from antiquity to the digital age, edited by Michele V Cloonan; 3) Preserving Archives, 2nd edition by Helen Forde and Jonathan Rhys-Lewis; 4) Preservation Management for Libraries, Archives and Museums, edited by G E Gorman and Sydney J Shep; 5) Digital Curation: A how-to-do-it manual by Ross Harvey; 6) Digital Preservation, edited by Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner; 7) Preparing Collections for Digitization by Anna E Bülow and Jess Ahmon; and 8) Preserving Complex Digital Objects, edited by Janet Delve and David Anderson.