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Digital Archives : management, use and access

Contributor(s): Dobreva, Milena.
Publisher: London Facet Publishing 2018Description: xxxii, 183p.ISBN: 9781856049344.Subject(s): Information Center -- Archives--Digitization -- Archives--Collection managementDDC classification: 025.84 Summary: This landmark edited collection offers a wide-ranging overview of how rapid technological changes and the drive to provide access to every growing digitized cultural heritage holdings are changing the landscape of archives. Digital Archives provides inspirational and informative chapters from international experts, which will help the reader understand the drivers for change and development in archives and their implications. Reassessment of the role of the archive in the digital environment serves to develop critical approaches to current trends in the broader heritage sector, including cultural industries experimenting with sustainable business models for cultural production, digitization of analogue cultural heritage, and the related intellectual property issues surrounding the re-use of digital objects and data for research, education, advocacy and art. Content covered includes: legal issues surrounding digital archives, managing research data archives, tools to serve emerging needs in digital humanities research, building digital archives using state of the art solutions, trust in digital repositories to ensure long-term access, [and] participatory approaches in archives"-- Provided by publisher.
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This landmark edited collection offers a wide-ranging overview of how rapid technological changes and the drive to provide access to every growing digitized cultural heritage holdings are changing the landscape of archives. Digital Archives provides inspirational and informative chapters from international experts, which will help the reader understand the drivers for change and development in archives and their implications. Reassessment of the role of the archive in the digital environment serves to develop critical approaches to current trends in the broader heritage sector, including cultural industries experimenting with sustainable business models for cultural production, digitization of analogue cultural heritage, and the related intellectual property issues surrounding the re-use of digital objects and data for research, education, advocacy and art. Content covered includes: legal issues surrounding digital archives, managing research data archives, tools to serve emerging needs in digital humanities research, building digital archives using state of the art solutions, trust in digital repositories to ensure long-term access, [and] participatory approaches in archives"-- Provided by publisher.

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