1. Making the case for digital preservation 2. Understanding your requirements 3. Models for implementing a digital preservation service 4. Selecting and acquiring digital objects 5. Accessioning and ingesting digital objects 6. Describing digital objects 7.Preserving digital objects 8. Providing access to users 9. Future trends.
Adrian Brown is Assistant Clerk of the Records at the Parliamentary Archives and has lectured and published widely on all aspects of digital preservation. He was previously Head of Digital Preservation at the National Archives where his team won the International Digital Preservation Award in 2007.
"This book shares useful, practical knowledge in the important area
of digital preservation. It provides knowledge of the process for a
broad audience, effectively serving as a practical handbook for
those specialists drowning in information about digital
preservation and needing a clear, practical overview to help them
get started. Because of the clarity and practical guidance offered,
the book is valuable for the interested non-specialist too, and I
would recommend it a must-read for those studying information
management."
*Library Management*
"I recommend the book for archivists, librarians, digital
repository managers, and any individual assigned the task of
establishing a digital preservation service."
*Journal of Electronic Resource Librarianship*
"While the content is geared toward libraries, museums, and
archives that are producing and maintaining digital content, this
book would also be beneficial for professionals outside these
fields. Each chapter is organized in a meaningful way, and the
entire book flows with a natural progression through the complex
stages of digital preservation. There is not a lot of technical
jargon and the concepts outlined can be applied to small or large
organizations that have a variety of assets. The author does an
excellent job presenting complicated content in a digestible way,
and offers useful case studies throughout the book. Practical
Digital Preservation is an excellent book for anyone working with
and producing digital content."
*Library Resources and Technical Services*
"The book’s structure underpins its value as a practical tool.
Refreshingly, it is designed to be read chapter by chapter or is
easily navigable topic by topic to suit the needs of the particular
reader. There’s a useful table of contents and a consistent layout
of each chapter, comprising an introduction, bite-sized sections, a
conclusion or next steps, a review of key points, and notes for
readers wanting to know more. The substance is illustrated with
useful case studies and visual aids such as process flow diagrams.
I can imagine returning to this book time and again as a reference
text. But the book is much more than a digital preservation primer.
There is real substance and Brown has a point-of-view; he rejects
aspiring to the “unobtainable, ideal of curatorial perfection”, the
one-size fits all “monolithic IT systems” view of digital
preservation, reminding us that preservation is an outcome that can
be achieved in many ways and degrees of complexity. At the heart of
Brown’s proposed strategy is use of a maturity model to identify
the appropriate digital preservation implementation in each
particular context; in other words he advocates taking a
proportionate and risk-based approach. This must be reassuring news
to his primary audience: archivists in small organizations outside
the flagship national cultural memory preservation programs and for
whom the gold-standard digital preservation is unattainable."
*Records Management Journal*
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