| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 510 pages) : illustrations |
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Preface; 1 Who Should Read This Book and Why?; 2 Structure of This Book; 3 Preservation and Curation; 4 OAIS Definitions; 5 Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Whats So Special About Digital Things?; 1.2 Terminology; 1.3 Summary; 2 The Really Foolproof Solution for Digital Preservation; Part I Theory -- The Concepts and Techniques Which Are Essential for Preserving Digitally Encoded Information; 3 Introduction to OAIS Concepts and Terminology; 3.1 Preserve What, for How Long and for Whom?; 3.2 What "Metadata", How Much "Metadata"? |
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3.3 Recursion -- A Pervasive Concept3.4 Disincentives Against Digital Preservation; 3.5 Summary; 4 Types of Digital Objects; 4.1 Simple vs. Composite; 4.2 Rendered vs. Non-rendered; 4.3 Static vs. Dynamic; 4.4 Active vs. Passive; 4.5 Multiple-Classifications; 4.6 Summary; 5 Threats to Digital Preservation and Possible Solutions; 5.1 What Can Be Relied on in the Long-Term?; 5.2 What Others Think About Major Threats to Digital Preservation; 5.3 Summary; 6 OAIS in More Depth; 6.1 OAIS Conformance; 6.2 OAIS Mandatory Responsibilities; 6.3 OAIS Information Model; 6.4 OAIS Functional Model |
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6.5 Information Flows and Layering6.6 Issues Not Covered in Detail by OAIS; 6.7 Summary; 7 Understanding a Digital Object: Basic Representation Information; 7.1 Levels of Application of Representation Information Concept; 7.2 Overview of Techniques for Describing Digital Objects; 7.3 Structure Representation Information; 7.4 Format Identification; 7.5 Semantic Representation Information; 7.6 Other Representation Information; 7.7 Application to Types of Digital Objects; 7.8 Virtualisation; 7.9 Emulation; 7.10 Summary; 8 Preservation of Intelligibility of Digital Objects |
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8.1 On Digital Objects and Dependencies8.2 A Formal Model for the Intelligibility of Digital Objects; 8.3 Modelling and Implementation Frameworks; 8.4 Summary; 9 Understandability and Usability of Data; 9.1 Re-Use of Digital Objects -- Interoperability and Preservation; 9.2 Use of Existing Software; 9.3 Creation of New Software; 9.4 Without Software; 9.5 Software as the Digital Object Being Preserved; 9.6 Digital Archaeology, Digital Forensics and Re-Use; 9.7 Multiple Objects; 9.8 Summary; 10 In Addition to Understanding It -- What Is It?: Preservation Description Information |
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10.1 Introduction10.2 Fixity Information; 10.3 Reference Information; 10.4 Context Information; 10.5 Provenance Information; 10.6 Access Rights Management; 10.7 Summary; 11 Linking Data and "Metadata": Packaging; 11.1 Information Packaging Overview; 11.2 Archival Information Packaging; 11.3 XFDU; 11.4 Summary; 12 Basic Preservation Strategies; 12.1 Description -- Adding Representation Information; 12.2 Maintaining Access; 12.3 Migration/Transformation; 12.4 Summary; 13 Authenticity; 13.1 Background to Authenticity; 13.2 OAIS Definition of Authenticity |
| Summary |
There is growing recognition of the need to address the fragility of digital information, on which our society heavily depends for smooth operation in all aspects of daily life. This has been discussed in many books and articles on digital preservation, so why is there a need for yet one more? Because, for the most part, those other publications focus on documents, images and webpages -- objects that are normally rendered to be simply displayed by software to a human viewer. Yet there are clearly many more types of digital objects that may need to be preserved, such as databases, scientific da |
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Computer science |
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Information storage and retrieval systems |
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Library science |
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Humanities |
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Information Storage and Retrieval |
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Computers and Society |
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Cultural Heritage |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-494) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer e-books |
| Subject |
Digital preservation.
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Digital media.
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Information storage and retrieval systems.
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Information Systems
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Informatique.
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Digital media
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Digital preservation
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Information storage and retrieval systems
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783642168093 |
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3642168094 |
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9783642168086 |
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3642168086 |
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