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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511641603321

Titolo

Partners for preservation : advancing digital preservation through cross-community collaboration / / edited by Jeanne Kramer-Smyth [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Facet, , 2019

ISBN

1-78330-349-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Disciplina

025.84

Soggetti

Archival materials - Digitization

Museum conservation methods - Data processing

Digital preservation

Multimedia data mining

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019).

Sommario/riassunto

Who could be partners to archivists working in digital preservation? This book features chapters from international contributors from diverse backgrounds and professions discussing their challenges with and victories over digital problems that share common issues with those facing digital preservationists      The only certainty about technology is that it will change. The speed of that change, and the ever increasing diversity of digital formats, tools, and platforms, will present stark challenges to the long-term preservation of digital records. Archivists are frequently challenged by the technical expertise, subject matter knowledge, time, and resource requirements needed to solve the broad set of challenges sure to be faced by the archival profession. Partners for Preservation advocates the need for archivists to recruit partners and learn lessons from across diverse professions to work more effectively within the digital landscape.    Includes discussion of:    the internet of things  digital architecture  research data and collaboration  open source programming  privacy, memory and transparency  inheritance of digital media.    This book will be useful reading for professional archivists and others responsible for



digital preservation, students of archival studies and digital preservation