DIGITAL CURATION IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: PRESERVING AND PROMOTING ARCHIVAL AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS by Sabharwal, Arjun - 2015

Chandos Pub, 2015. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 182 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Archives and special collections departments have a long history of preserving and providing long-term access to organizational records, rare books, and other unique primary sources including manuscripts, photographs, recordings, and artifacts in various formats. The careful curatorial attention to such records has also ensured that such records remain available to researchers and the public as sources of knowledge, memory, and identity. Digital curation presents an important framework for the continued preservation of digitized and born-digital collections, given the ephemeral and device-dependent nature of digital content. With the emergence of analog and digital media formats in close succession (compared to earlier paper- and film-based formats) came new standards, technologies, methods, documentation, and workflows to ensure safe storage and access to content and associated metadata. Researchers in the digital humanities have extensively applied computing to research;… Read More

Chandos Publishing, 2015. Paperback. New. First Edition thus, as good as new. Digital Curation in Digital Humanities by Arjun Sabharwal. Published by Chandos Publishing in 2015. Paperback ISBN:9780081001431. Collectible item in excellent condition.