Overview
- Describes methodology for long-term preservation of all kinds of digital documents
- Justifies this methodology using 20th-century theory of knowledge communication
- Outlines the requirements and architecture for the software needed
- Emphasizes attention to the perspectives and needs of end users
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Why We Need Long-term Digital Preservation
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Information Object Structure
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Distributed Content Management
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Digital Object Architecture for the Long Term
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Peroration
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About this book
Cultural history enthusiasts have asserted the urgent need to protect digital information from imminent loss. Without action, much of what has been created in digital form is likely to become unusable. Although a decade has already elapsed since this challenge was clearly articulated, nobody has described a complete procedure for preventing such loss – until now.
Leading industry consultant Henry M. Gladney outlines a technical solution and justifies its correctness and optimality. His presentation focuses on long-term digital preservation principles as a basis for producing the software that will be needed. The method described will work for any kind of digital document, multimedia file, business record collection, or scientific information, and is believed to be optimal with respect to both the quality of the preserved information and end-user convenience. Additionally, Dr. Gladney explains the requirements of the related software, and sketches how to implement it.
Preserving Digital Information presents an up-to-date description of its field, together with a solution for all technical problems identified in the pertinent professional literature. It is for archivists, research librarians, and museum curators who need to understand digital technology in order to manage their institutions; software engineers and computer scientists whose work requires sound information about digital preservation; and attorneys, medical professionals, government officials, and business executives who depend on the long-term reliability of digital records.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The book provides a wide range of examples that illustrate the various types of information. It is for producers and users who may be interested in long-term archiving and retrieval of digital information. This book states that today there is no single solution that will work for the many kinds of digital information being used by many different users. … Gladney is an expert on this subject, and this book offers a thorough treatment of it." (Stan Kurkovsky, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (8), August, 2008)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Henry M. Gladney is an industry consultant for digital preservation and document management. In 2001, he founded his own company, HMG Consulting, based in Saratoga, CA, after having worked for IBM Research for decades, designing – among other systems – a digital library service that is the core of today's IBM Content Manager®. He is a regular author in the top ACM periodicals, holds eleven patents, and produces the "Digital Document Quarterly", an online newsletter that has discussed preservation extensively.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Preserving Digital Information
Authors: Henry M. Gladney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37887-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-37886-0Published: 05 February 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07239-0Published: 14 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-37887-7Published: 21 March 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 319
Topics: Information Storage and Retrieval, Library Science, Media Management, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Computers and Society