Digital Curation Projects Made Easy - A Step-By-Step Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Digital Preservation Made Easy outlines simple steps for accomplishing practical digital preservation projects for those with little experience, time, or resources. Following a general introduction, step-by-step guides for completing commonplace digital preservation projects are covered.

List of contents

Part I: The Basics
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: What Every Project Needs to Get Started

Part II: Digital Curation Projects Step-By-Step
Chapter 3: General Guidelines
Chapter 4: Photograph Collections
Chapter 5: Newspaper Collections
Chapter 6: Rare Books
Chapter 7: Art Collections
Chapter 8: Oral Histories

About the author

Carmen Cowick is the director of preservation services at Preserve This, where she provides training, support, and consulting services for libraries in the areas of preservation and collections care. Cowick has had several articles published in peer-reviewed journals and has given presentations at both regional and national professional conferences on preservation-related topics.

Summary

Digital Preservation Made Easy outlines simple steps for accomplishing practical digital preservation projects for those with little experience, time, or resources. Following a general introduction, step-by-step guides for completing commonplace digital preservation projects are covered.

Product details

• Authors: Carmen Cowick
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781538103517
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0351-7
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: LITA Guides; LITA Guides
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Archiving, preservation & digitisation, Archiving, preservation and digitization