1. Introduction -- 2. Why is Digital Preservation important? -- 3. Generating funding for preservation -- 4. Diving into the BITS in question -- 5. Thinking clearly about what is needed for digital preservation -- 6. What OAIS says and why it says it -- 7. Understanding what OAIS conformance actually means -- 8. Explanation of updates to OAIS version 2012 -- 9. Authenticity -- 10. Lifecycles -- 11. Active Data Management Plans, collecting Information needed for Re-Use and Preservation - what to capture and when -- 12. Preservation activities -- 13. Adding Representation Information -- 14. Structure Representation Information -- 15. Semantic Representation Information -- 16. Other Representation Information -- 17. Transforming the Data Object -- 18. Handing over to another repository - the role of AIPs -- 19. Infrastructure -- 20. Example: OAIS and the preservation of Linked Data (LD) -- 21. Types of digitally encoded information -- 22. Deciding on which preservation activity to use -- 23. Re-use, Reproducibility, Replicability -- 24. Interoperability and Exploiting preserved information -- 25. Big Data, the Fourth Paradigm, and Information Preservation -- 26. Records Managemnet and Digital Preservation -- 27. Digital Signatures as Evidence to support claims of Authenticity -- 28. Evaluating Tools -- 29. Evaluating claims -- 30. Trustworthy repositories: ISO 16363 Audit and Certification -- 31. Digital Preservation and the Environment -- 32. Conclusions -- About the Author -- Index.
Summary:
"This book will provide the readers with the mental tools to enable them to think their way through challenges concerning digital preservation. It will show the readers how to think about and understand digital preservation in a way that will enable them to cope with whatever preservation challenges are presented, now and in the future. The aim is to enable the readers, when presented with digitally encoded information which must be preserved, to be able to evaluate proposed solutions or, evaluate and choose between options if they wish to implement a solution themselves. Hence the first part of the title "Thinking Digital Preservation". The part of the title which says "for the serious, intelligent digital preserver" is a hint that some of the content of this book may be thought to be too detailed and perhaps a little hard. But consider a motor mechanic working on your family's car. You would be worried if they did not know the details of how a car works including details of the engine and brakes. Similarly, one would not wish to fly in a plane for which the designer did not have detailed knowledge of the appropriate topics which require working diligently through, and mastering, very hard mathematical and engineering techniques. Even the pilot will need to know a fair amount about the fundamentals of flight in order to deal with emergencies. With these thoughts in mind, consider someone who is responsible for preserving your valuable digital information. Surely you would be very concerned if that person said: "I cannot be bothered to understand the details, they are too difficult, so I only look at the easy stuff". Surely you would be outraged and would seek someone else to undertake the preservation. You would be right to react in that way. Hence if readers claim to be, or wish to claim to be, serious, intelligent, digital preservers, they must put in the effort to read and understand this book"-- Provided by vendor.
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