Technological advances and innovative perspectives constantly
evolve the notion of what makes up a digital library. Archives and
the Digital Library provides an insightful snapshot of the current
state of archiving in the digital realm. Respected experts in
library and information science present the latest research results
and illuminating case studies to provide a comprehensive glimpse at
the theory, technological advances, and unique approaches to
digital information management as it now stands. The book focuses
on digitally reformatted surrogates of non-digital textual and
graphic materials from archival collections, exploring the roles
archivists can play in broadening the scope of digitization efforts
through creatively developing policies, procedures, and tools to
effectively manage digital content.
Many of the important advances in digitization of materials have
little to do with the efforts of archivists. Archives and the
Digital Library concentrates specifically on the developments in
the world of archives and the digitization of the unique content of
information resources archivists deal with on a constant basis.
This resource reviews the current issues and challenges, effective
user assessment techniques, various digital resources projects,
collaboration strategies, and helpful best practices. The book is
extensively referenced and includes helpful illustrative figures.
Topics in Archives and the Digital Library include:
- a case study of LSTA-grant funded California Local History
Digital Resources Project
- expanding the scope of traditional archival digitations
projects beyond the limits of a single institution
- a case study of the California Cultures Project
- the top ten themes in usability issues
- case studies of usability studies, focus groups, interviews,
ethnographic studies, and web log analysis
- developing a reciprocal partnership with a digital
library
- the technical challenges in harvesting and managing Web
archives
- metadata strategies to provide descriptive, technical, and
preservation related information about archived Web sites
- long-term preservation of digital materials
- building a trusted digital repository
- collaboration in developing and supporting the technical and
organizational infrastructure for sustainability in both academic
and state government
- the Archivists' Toolkit software application
Archives and the Digital Library is timely, important reading for
archivists, librarians, library administrators, library information
educators, archival educators, and students.
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