Digitization and digital archiving: a practical guide for librarians

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Why use digital preservation? -- How do computers store information? -- Storing images -- Storing text -- Storing audio and video -- Storing born digital materials -- Floppy disks and optical media -- Magnetic tape -- Hard drives -- Flash memory -- Cloud computing -- Equipment for digitizing and editing archival materials -- Metadata and accessing information -- Copyright law -- Problems with digital preservation -- Drawing up policies. "This second edition has been updated to address new tren…

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Title Statements

Full title :Digitization and digital archiving : a practical guide for librarians / Elizabeth R. Leggett.

Summary

Why use digital preservation? -- How do computers store information? -- Storing images -- Storing text -- Storing audio and video -- Storing born digital materials -- Floppy disks and optical media -- Magnetic tape -- Hard drives -- Flash memory -- Cloud computing -- Equipment for digitizing and editing archival materials -- Metadata and accessing information -- Copyright law -- Problems with digital preservation -- Drawing up policies.

"This second edition has been updated to address new trends and concerns in software. It also addresses questions about preserving materials with no original physical format and preserving media storage devices as important artifacts in themselves"

Edition Statements

Publication Date:© 2021
Edition:Second Edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rowman & Littlefield
Place of Publication:Lanham
Language:eng
Publication Date:© 2021

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 243 Seiten : Illustrationen

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781538133347, 1538133342
oclc:on1264284686
LC Classification:CD973.D53
Dewey Decimal:025.3/4140285

Subjects

Archival materials -- Conservation and … Archival materials -- Digitization Archives électroniques -- Gestion Digital preservation Documents d'archives -- Conservation et… Documents d'archives -- Numérisation Electronic records -- Management Langzeitarchivierung Neue Medien Records -- Management