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Advanced Digital Preservation (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
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Advanced Digital Preservation (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
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There is growing recognition of the need to address the fragility
of digital information, on which our society heavily depends for
smooth operation in all aspects of daily life. This has been
discussed in many books and articles on digital preservation, so
why is there a need for yet one more? Because, for the most part,
those other publications focus on documents, images and webpages -
objects that are normally rendered to be simply displayed by
software to a human viewer. Yet there are clearly many more types
of digital objects that may need to be preserved, such as
databases, scientific data and software itself. David Giaretta,
Director of the Alliance for Permanent Access, and his contributors
explain why the tools and techniques used for preserving rendered
objects are inadequate for all these other types of digital
objects, and they provide the concepts, techniques and tools that
are needed. The book is structured in three parts. The first part
is on theory, i.e., the concepts and techniques that are essential
for preserving digitally encoded information. The second part then
shows practice, i.e., the use and validation of these tools and
techniques. Finally, the third part concludes by addressing how to
judge whether money is being well spent, in terms of effectiveness
and cost sharing. Various examples of digital objects from many
sources are used to explain the tools and techniques presented. The
presentation style mainly aims at practitioners in libraries,
archives and industry who are either directly responsible for
preservation or who need to prepare for audits of their archives.
Researchers in digital preservation and developers of preservation
tools and techniques will also find valuable practical information
here. Researchers creating digitally encoded information of all
kinds will also need to be aware of these topics so that they can
help to ensure that their data is usable and can be valued by
others now and in the future. To further assist the reader, the
book is supported by many hours of videos and presentations from
the CASPAR project and by a set of open source software.
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