Bibliograph

Digitization and digital archiving, a practical guide for librarians, Elizabeth R. Leggett

Type

Label

Digitization and digital archiving, a practical guide for librarians, Elizabeth R. Leggett

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Digitization and digital archiving

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Elizabeth R. Leggett

Series statement

Practical guides for librarians;, no. 71

Sub title

a practical guide for librarians

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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

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