Oliver, Gillian and Ross Harvey. Digital Curation. Second Edition. Neal-Schuman, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1385-7
Description
A great resource for librarians, archivists, or records managers, this revamped and expanded edition is filled with up-to-date best practices. Topics covered include:
- key requirements for digital curation, from description and representation to planning and collaboration;
- the value and utility of metadata;
- considering the needs of producers and consumers when creating an appraisal and selection policy for digital objects;
- the paradigm shift by institutions towards cloud computing and its impact on costs, storage, and other key aspects of digital curation;
- the quality and security of data;
- new and emerging data curation resources, including innovative digital repository software and digital forensics tools;
- mechanisms for sharing and reusing data, with expanded sections on open access, open data, and open standards initiatives; and
- processes to ensure that data are preserved and remain usable over time.
Table of Contents
Part I: Digital Curation: Scope and Incentives
1 Introduction
2 The Changing Landscape
3 Conceptual Models
4 Defining Data
Part II: Key Requirements for Digital Curation
5 Curation and Curators
6 Description and Representation Information
7 Preservation Planning and Policy
8 Sharing Knowledge and Collaborating
Part III: The Digital Curation Lifecycle in Action
9 Designing Data
10 Creating Data
11 Deciding What Data to Keep
12 Ingesting Data
13 Preserving Data
14 Storing Data
15 Using and Reusing Data
