Practical Digital Preservation - A How-to Guide for Organizations of Any Size

List of contents

1. Making the case for digital preservation 2. Understanding your requirements 3. Models for implementing a digital preservation service 4. Selecting and acquiring digital objects 5. Accessioning and ingesting digital objects 6. Describing digital objects 7.Preserving digital objects 8. Providing access to users 9. Future trends.

About the author

Adrian Brown is the Director of the Parliamentary Archives and has lectured and published widely on all aspects of digital preservation. He was previously Head of Digital Preservation at the National Archives where his team won the International Digital Preservation Award in 2007.

Summary

A practical guide to the development and operation of digital preservation services for organizations of any size. This offers an overview of best practice and provides guidance as to how to implement strategies with minimal time and resources. It is intended at the non-specialist, assuming only a basic understanding of IT and offering guidance.

Product details

• Authors: ADRIAN BROWN, Adrian Brown, Brown Adrian
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2017
• EAN: 9781783303151
• ISBN: 978-1-78330-315-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 298 g
• Series: The Facet Preservation Collection; The Facet Preservation Collection 2
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Archiving, preservation & digitisation, Library, archive and information management, Library, Archive & Information Management, IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries, IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries, Archiving, preservation and digitization