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Protect your digital resources! This book addresses critical issues of preservation, giving you everything you need to effectively protect your resources-from dealing with obsolescence, to responsibilities, methods of preservation, cost, and metadata formats. It also gives examples of numerous national and international institutions that provide frameworks for digital libraries and archives. A long-overdue text for anyone involved in the preservation of digital information, this book is critical in understanding today's methods and practices, intellectual discourse, and preservation guidelines. A must for librarians, archiving professionals, faculty and students of library science, administrators, and corporate leaders!
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Why Is Digital Preservation an Issue?
Chapter 2: What Electronic Data Should Be Preserved?
Chapter 3: Who Should Be Responsible for Digital Preservations?
Chapter 4: How Can Electronic Publications Be Prepared?
Chapter 5: How Much Will It Cost?
Part II: Models, Formats, and Standards
Chapter 6: Models for Syntactic and Semantic Interoperability: Metalanguages and Metadata Formats
Chapter 7: Standards for Structural Interoperability: Frameworks and Wrapper Technology
Chapter 8: From Theory to Reality: Selected Electronic Data Archives in the United States
Chapter 9: Further Reality: International Digital Cultural Heritage Centers and Sites and Electronic Data Archives
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Nov 15 2001 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 359 |
| ISBN | 9781563087776 |
| Imprint | Libraries Unlimited |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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