Digital Preservation and Metadata (Paperback)

Susan S. Lazinger

ISBN 10: 1563087774 / ISBN 13: 9781563087776

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Englewood, 2001

About this Item

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 our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Digital Preservation and Metadata (Paperback)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Englewood
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563087774
• ISBN 13: 9781563087776
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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!

About the Author

SUSAN S. LAZINGER is Senior Lecturer, School of Library Science, Archive & Information Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.