Advanced digital preservation /
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? Becau...
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| Format: | eBook |
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Berlin :
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[2011]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-494) and index. |
| ISBN: | 3642168086 (print) 3642168094 (electronic bk) 9783642168086 (print) 9783642168093 (electronic bk) |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-16809-3 |