Full Description
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.
Contents
Part I: Why Do We Preserve Digital Materials?
Chapter 1: Preservation in the Digital Age
Chapter 2: The Need for Digital Preservation
Part II: What Digital Materials Are We Preserving?
Chapter 3: Digital Artifacts, Digital Objects, Storage
Chapter 4: Selection for Preservation
Chapter 5: Requirements for Successful Digital Preservation
Part III: How Do We Preserve Digital Materials?
Chapter 6: Digital Preservation Strategies I
Chapter 7: Digital Preservation Strategies II
Chapter 8: Case Studies
Part IV: Collaboration and the Future
Chapter 9: Digital Preservation Initiatives
Chapter 10: The Future of Digital Preservation
