Digital Preservation and Metadata

Protect your digital resources! This book addresses critical issues of preservation giving you everything you need to effectively protect your resources-from dealing with obsolescence to responsibilities methods of preservation cost and metadata formats. It also gives examples of numerous national and international institutions that provide frameworks for digital libraries and archives. A long-overdue text for anyone involved in the preservation of digital information this book is critical in understanding today''s methods and practices intellectual discourse and preservation guidelines. A must for librarians archiving professionals faculty and students of library science administrators and corporate leaders!