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Partners for Preservation: Advancing digital preservation through cross-community collaboration

Partners for Preservation: Advancing digital preservation through cross-community collaboration

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This book explores the challenges and opportunities of digital preservation, highlighting the need for collaboration across diverse professions. It discusses topics such as the internet of things, digital architecture, research data, open source programming, privacy, memory, and transparency, and emphasizes the importance of inheritance of digital media.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 23 January 2019
Publisher: Facet Publishing


The field of digital preservation is faced with numerous challenges, including the rapid pace of technological change, the diverse range of digital formats, tools, and platforms, and the complex technical expertise, subject matter knowledge, time, and resources required to preserve digital records effectively. Archivists often face significant obstacles in their efforts to tackle these challenges, making it essential for them to seek partnerships and learn from diverse professions.

Partners for Preservation, a leading advocacy organization in the field, emphasizes the importance of archivists collaborating with partners from various sectors to navigate the digital landscape more efficiently. This includes areas such as the Internet of Things, digital architecture, research data and collaboration, open source programming, privacy, memory, and transparency, as well as the inheritance of digital media.

The book, authored by international contributors from diverse backgrounds and professions, explores these topics in depth and provides valuable insights and strategies for digital preservation. It is a valuable resource for professional archivists, as well as anyone else responsible for digital preservation, archival studies students, and the general public interested in understanding the challenges and opportunities of preserving digital heritage.

In conclusion, the partnership between archivists and professionals from other sectors is crucial for addressing the complex challenges of digital preservation. By leveraging their expertise and resources, archivists can better ensure the long-term preservation of our digital heritage for future generations.

Weight: 368g
Dimension: 198 x 181 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781783303472

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