Long-Term Preservation of Digital Documents
Subtitle: Principles and Practices
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 4, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9783540336396
Subjects: Data security & data encryption; HTML; XML; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Computers; Database Management - General; Computer Science; Information Storage & Retrieval; Computers / Information Storage & Retrieval; DSpace; Deposit System for Electronic Publications - DSEP; DigiTool; Dublin Core Metadata Initiantive - DCMI; Open Archival Information System - OAIS; data archival; Digital preservation; Electronic information resources; Electronic records; Germany
First sentence: The purpose of libraries, archives, and similar institutions is to preserve documents with lasting scientific, artistic, or social value, so that future generations can access them just as we do today.