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Informationen zum Autor Marilyn Deegan is Professor of Digital Humanities and Honorary Research Fellow at King's College London. Simon Tanner is Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. He is a digital humanities scholar with a wide-ranging interest in cross-disciplinary thinking and collaborative approaches that reflect a fascination with interactions between memory institution collections (libraries, museum, archives, media and publishing) and the digital domain. He is a member of the Europeana Impact Taskforce that developed the Impact Playbook. He teaches on the Masters in Digital Asset and Media Management and the BA in Digital Culture. "The editors can be praised for bringing together essays highlighting the economic decisions on which preservation is based...The book provides ample guidance to choosing a strategic approach to technology and metadata, and offers more than 60 case studies for reference." - Information World Review "The book remains valuable as a reflection of the state-of-the-art in digital preservation knowledge at a given period and is to be recommended for information professions who are not experts in the area but wish to develop their knowledge of the issues further. This book will certainly enable them to do that." - Ariadne Zusammenfassung Digital preservation is an issue of huge importance to the library and information profession. It is a complex issue involving many different aspects and views. This book uses case studies and examples to ground the ideas and theories in real concerns and practice. It covers key issues in digital preservation; web archiving; strategies; and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Key issues in digital preservation - Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner 2. Strategies for digital preservation - David Holdsworth 3. The status of preservation metadata in the digital library community - Robin Wendler 4. Web archiving - Julien Masanès 5. Web archiving activities: case studies - Elisa Mason 6. The costs of digital preservation - Brian F. Lavoie 7. It’s money that matters in long-term preservation - Stephen Chapman 8. Some European approaches to digital preservation - Peter McKinney 9. Digital preservation projects: some brief case studies - Jasmine Kelly and Elisa Mason ...
