Is Digital Different? - How Information Creation, Capture, Preservation and Discovery are Being Transformed

List of contents

Introduction and acknowledgements - Michael Moss and Barbara Endicott-Popovsky 1. What is the same and what is different - Michael Moss 2. Finding stuff - David Nicholas and David Clark 3. RDF, the Semantic Web, Jordan, Jordan and Jordan - Norman Gray 4. Crowd sourcing - Ylva Berglund Prytz 5. Pathways to integrating technical, legal and economic considerations in the design, development and deployment of trusted IM systems - Scott David and Barbara Endicott Popovsky 6. Finding archived records in a digital age - Tim Gollins and Emma Bayne 7. Security: managing online risk - Barbara Endicott-Popovsky 8. Rights and the Commons: navigating the boundary between public and private knowledge spaces - Gavan McCarthy and Helen Morgan 9. From the Library in Alexandria to the Google Campus: has the digital changed the way we do research? - David Thomas and Valeria Johnson

About the author

Michael Moss is Professor of Archival Science at the University of Northumbria. Previously, he was research professor in archival studies in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow, where he directed the Information Management and Preservation MSc programme. He is a non-executive director of the National Records of Scotland and until 2014 a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Council on National Archives and Records. In 2015 he was Miegunyah distinguished fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Summary

A landmark edited collection bringing together global experts on the impact of new technology on information services.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Moss
• Assisted by: Barbara Endicott-Popovsky (Editor), Michael Moss (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2015
• EAN: 9781856048545
• ISBN: 978-1-85604-854-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 233 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 173 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Hardware; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Library, archive and information management, Library, Archive & Information Management, archives;archival science;archivist