Digital Curation - Softcover

Oliver, Gillian; Harvey, Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783300973 ISBN 13: 9781783300976

Verlag: Facet Publishing, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This second edition of Digital Curation outlines the essential concepts and techniques that are crucial to preserving the longevity of digital resources.
The first edition of this textbook provided in-depth explanation of the entire digital curation lifecycle, from creation to appraisal to preservation to organization/access to transformation and set a benchmark for both thoroughness and clarity. In this revamped and expanded second edition, international authorities Gillian Oliver and Ross Harvey have widened the scope the scope to address continuing developments in the strategies, technological approaches, and activities that are part of this rapidly changing field.
Useful as both a teaching text and day-to-day working guide, this book outlines the essential concepts and techniques that are crucial to preserving the longevity of digital resources and covers topics including:

• the scope and incentives of digital curation, detailing Digital Curation Centre’s (DCC) lifecycle model as well as the Data Curation Continuum
• key requirements for digital curation, from description and representation to planning and collaboration
• the value and utility of metadata
• creating an appraisal and selection policy for digital objects that considers the needs of producers and consumers when
• the paradigm shift by institutions towards cloud computing and its impact on costs, storage, and other key aspects of digital curation
• the quality and security of data
• new and emerging data curation resources, including innovative digital repository software and digital forensics tools
• mechanisms for sharing and reusing data, with expanded sections on open access, open data, and open standards initiatives
• processes to ensure that data are preserved and remain usable over time.

This book will be essential reading for any information professional, records manager or archivists who appraises, selects, organizes, or maintains digital resources and has responsibilities as a digital curator.

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Ross Harvey is Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, a position he has held since 2008. Before joining Simmons he was the inaugural Professor of Library and Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia, from 1999 to 2008, and he has held positions at other universities in Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand. Visiting Professorships at the University of British Columbia (2008) and the University of Glasgow (2007-2008) allowed him to observe first hand current digital preservation and digital curation practice and research

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Facet Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1783300973
• ISBN 13: 9781783300976
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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