"Providing detailed case studies, this book explores the vibrant digital expressions of diverse groups of Muslim cybernauts: religious clerics and Sufi mystics, feminists and fashionistas, artists and activists, Hajj pilgrims and celebrities. Together, these stories span a vast …
Everyday data cultures
by McCosker, Anthony, Wilken, Rowan, Albury, Kath, Burgess, Jean
Introduction: Refiguring digital cultural heritage and curation -- The official birth of digital data as universal heritage -- Digital data as the heritage of the modern world -- Object concepts in digital cultural heritage -- From objects to ecological formations -- Digital dat…
Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, & Museums is designed for all types of information professionals who are interested in digital preservation. This is not a how-to book giving step-by-step processes for certain materials in a given kind of system. Instead, it address…
This book represents a new approach to getting started with digital preservation: that of what cultural heritage professionals need to know as they begin their work. For administrators and practitioners alike, the information in this book is presented readably, focusing on manag…
Accessibility is never a given – it degrades over time and must be recreated or maintained. Diverse mechanisms govern the accessibility of information over time, including social trends, processes of loss, preservation, and recovery. This book develops an interdisciplinary view …
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This is a book about the pitfalls and the opportunities that…
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This is a book about the pitfalls and the opportunities that…
"It has become increasingly accepted that important digital data must be retained and shared in order to preserve and promote knowledge, advance research in and across all disciplines of scholarly endeavor, and maximize the return on investment of public funds. To meet this chal…
"During the coming decades, the digital revolution that has transformed so much of our world will transform legal education as well. The digital production and distribution of course materials will powerfully affect both the content and the way materials are used in the classroo…
"This volume contains the submissions for the IAPL colloquium on "Electronic Justice--Present and Future", which took place during September 23rd-25th 2010 in Pécs, Hungary."--Page x.