Digital Preservation and Metadata (Paperback)

Paperback. 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! This book addresses all aspects of electronic data archiving or digital preservation. The first part explains the need, the processes, and the issues. The second and third parts present an extensive listing, with full descriptions, of most of the major digital collections and digital preservation projects in the United States and around the world. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.