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The Digital Archives Handbook - A Guide to Creation, Management, and Preservation (Paperback)
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The Digital Archives Handbook - A Guide to Creation, Management, and Preservation (Paperback)
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The Digital Archives Handbook provides archivists a roadmap to
create and care for digital archives. Written by archival experts
and practitioners, Purcell brings together theoretical and
practical approaches to creating, managing, and preserving digital
archives. The first section is focused on processes and practices,
including chapters on acquisitions, appraisal, arrangement,
description, delivery, preservation, forensics, curation, and
intellectual property. The second section is focused on digital
collections and specific environments where archivists are managing
digital collections. These chapters review digital collections in
categories including performing arts, oral history, architectural
and design records, congressional collections, and email. The book
discuss the core components of digital archives-the technological
infrastructure that provides storage, access, and long-term
preservation; the people or organizations that create or donate
digital material to archives programs, as well as the researchers
use them; and the digital collections themselves, full of
significant research content in a variety of formats with a
multitude of research possibilities. The chapters emphasize that
the people and the collections that make up digital archives are
just as important as the technology. Also highlighted are the
importance of donors and creators of digital archives. Building
digital archives parallels the cycle of donor work-planning,
cultivation, and stewardship. During each stage, archivists work
with donors to ensure that the digital collections will be
arranged, described, preserved, and made accessible for years to
come. Archivists must take proactive and informed actions to build
valuable digital collections. Knowing where digital materials come
from, how those materials were created, what materials are
important, what formats or topical areas are included, and how to
serve those collections to researchers in the long term is central
to archival work. This handbook is designed to generate new
discussions about how archivists of the twenty-first century can
overcome current challenges and chart paths that anticipate, rather
than merely react to, future donations of digital archives.
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