Digital Curation Fundamentals

Digital Curation Fundamentals takes a straight-forward, commonsense approach to the complex problem of digital curation and preservation, and portrays the challenges and opportunities in an approachable conversational style which lowers the bar to include those with little to no technical expertise.

List of contents

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Chapter 1. What Is Digital Curation?
Chapter 2. What Can I/We Do?
Chapter 3. Models: Which Ones Do I Use When?
Chapter 4. Emulation, Migration, or Encapsulation?
Chapter 5. How do I Identify and Select Content?
Chapter 6. What Foundational Work Will Prepare Content for Preservation and Access?
Chapter 7. Storage, Protection, and Monitoring: What Do I Do?
Chapter 8. How Do I Provide Access Over Time?
Chapter 9. How Can I Leverage the Community?
Appendix. Resources
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Jody L. DeRidder

Summary

Digital Curation Fundamentals takes a straight-forward, commonsense approach to the complex problem of digital curation and preservation, and portrays the challenges and opportunities in an approachable conversational style which lowers the bar to include those with little to no technical expertise.

Product details

• Authors: Jody Deridder, Jody L. DeRidder
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781538111215
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1121-5
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Library, archive and information management, Library, Archive & Information Management, IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries, IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries