Title: Long-term preservation of digital documents
Description: Key to our culture is that we can disseminate information, and then maintain and access it over time. While we are rapidly advancing from vulnerable physical solutions to superior, digital media, preserving and using data over the long term involves complicated research challenges and organization efforts. Uwe Borghoff and his coauthors address the problem of storing, reading, and using digital data for periods longer than 50 years. They briefly describe several markup and document description languages like TIFF, PDF, HTML, and XML, explain the most important techniques such as migration and emulation, and present the OAIS (Open Archival Information System) Reference Model. To complement this background information on the technology issues the authors present the most relevant international preservation projects, such as the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, and experiences from sample projects run by the Cornell University Library and the National Library of the Netherlands. A rated survey list of available systems and tools completes the book. With this broad overview, the authors address librarians who preserve our digital heritage, computer scientists who develop technologies that access data, and information managers engaged with the social and methodological requirements of long-term information access.
Subjects: Conservation and restoration, Digital preservation, Library materials, Electronic records, Electronic information resources, Web archives, Web archiving, 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, Germany, Electronic publishing, Document markup languages, Web publishing, Database management, Information storage and retrieval systems, Preservation of materials, Computer science, Text processing (Computer science, Library science, Humanities