Preserving Digital Information

Summary

This volume describes methodology for the long-term preservation of all kinds of digital documents. It outlines a technical solution and justifies its correctness and optimality. The presentation focuses on long-term digital preservation principles as a basis for producing the software that will be needed. The method described will work for any kind of digital document, multimedia file, business record collection, or scientific information, and is believed to be optimal with respect to both the quality of the preserved information and end-user convenience. Additionally, the title explains the requirements of the related software, and sketches how to implement it. The book is ideal for Archivists, research librarians, and museum curators; Software engineers and computer scientists whose work requires sound information about digital preservation; and attorneys, medical professionals, government officials, and business executives who depend on the long-term reliability of digital records.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Gladney
• Publisher: Springer EN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2007
• EAN: 9783540378860
• ISBN: 978-3-540-37886-0
• No. of pages: 319
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1450 g
• Illustrations: XXIII, 319 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Marketing, B, Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften / Museumskunde, Marketing und Vertrieb, Media Studies, Wirtschaftsmathematik und -informatik, IT-Management, Data Warehousing, computer science, Media Management, Computers and Society, Management of Computing and Information Systems, IT Operations, Maintenance & repairs, information architecture, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Computers and civilization, Management information systems, Industrial Management, Media, entertainment, information & communication industries, Information Storage and Retrieval, Library Science, Library & information sciences / Museology