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| Introduction |
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Chapter 1 What is Preservation in the Digital Age? Changing Preservation Paradigms |
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The need for a new preservation paradigm |
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Preservation definitions in the digital world |
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What exactly are we trying to preserve? |
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How long are we preserving them for? |
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What strategies and actions do we apply? |
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Chapter 2 Why do we Preserve? Who Should do it? |
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Why preserve digital materials? |
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How much data have we lost? |
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Current state of awareness of digital preservation problems |
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Chapter 3 Why There's a Problem: Digital Artifacts and Digital Objects |
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The future for digital storage media |
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Digital objects -- more than digital artifacts |
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Loss of functionality of access devices |
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Loss of manipulation and presentation capabilities |
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Weak links in the documentation chain and loss of contextual information |
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Chapter 4 Selection for Preservation -- The Critical Decision |
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Selection for preservation, cultural heritage, and professional practice |
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Selection criteria traditionally used by libraries and archives |
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Why traditional selection criteria do not apply to digital materials |
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IPR, context, stakeholders, and lifecycle models |
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Intellectual property rights and legal deposit |
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Value of lifecycle models |
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Developing selection frameworks for preserving digital materials |
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Some selection frameworks |
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Chapter 5 What Attributes of Digital Materials Do We Preserve? |
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Digital materials, technology, and data |
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The importance of preserving context |
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Preservation metadata standards |
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Research into authenticity |
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Functional Requirements for Evidence in Recordkeeping Project (Pittsburgh) |
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Trusted digital repositories |
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Chapter 6 Overview of Digital Preservation Strategies |
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Criteria for effective strategies and practices |
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Typologies of principles, strategies, and practices |
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A typology of digital preservation? |
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Chapter 7 `Preserve Technology' Approaches: Tried and Tested Methods |
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Storage and handling practices |
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Durable/persistent digital storage media |
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Digital archaeology and digital forensics |
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`Preserve technology' approaches |
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The Universal Virtual Computer |
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Chapter 8 `Preserve Objects' Approaches: New Frontiers? |
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`Preserve Objects' approaches |
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Bit-stream copying, refreshing, and replication |
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Standardizing file formats |
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Restricting the range of file formats |
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Developing archival file formats |
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Viewers and migration on request |
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Combining principles, strategies, and practices |
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Chapter 9 Digital Preservation Initiatives and Collaborations |
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Typologies of digital preservation initiatives |
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International initiatives and collaborations |
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International Internet Preservation Consortium |
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Regional initiatives and collaborations |
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European Commission-funded projects |
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Digital Recordkeeping Initiative |
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National initiatives and collaborations |
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Digital Preservation Coalition |
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National Digital Stewardship Alliance |
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Sectoral initiatives and collaborations |
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Chapter 10 Challenges for the Future of Digital Preservation |
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What have we learned so far? |
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Challenge 1 managing digital preservation |
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Challenge 2 funding digital preservation |
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Challenge 3 peopling digital preservation |
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Challenge 4 making digital preservation fit |
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Research and digital preservation |
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Conclusion: the future of digital preservation |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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