Digital Preservation Coalition Publishes New Edition of Digital Preservation Handbook, Full Text Available Online
This new edition was formally released yesterday in York, England.
From the DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition):
Available free of charge on the Digital Preservation Coalition website, the newly unveiled Handbook (Revised, 2nd Edition) provides a range of practical tools to help preserve digital materials. Acknowledging and embracing the importance of digital information to today’s culture, knowledge base and economy, the Handbook also identifies good current practice in creating, managing and preserving this rapidly growing and valuable asset.
“By providing a strategic overview of the key issues, strategies and activities, the Handbook is a real, useful and practical guide to help organisations identify and take appropriate action in preserving their digital collections,” explains Handbook Managing Editor Neil Beagrie.
Recognising the presence of definite challenges in digital preservation, the Handbook still provides hope for a bright digital future; pointing to many examples of great practice and suggestions for ways in which organisations can get started in digital preservation.
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As lead funder, The National Archives in the UK with supplementary funding from the Archives and Records Association, British Library, Jisc, and National Records of Scotland, have provided a research grant to fund the full revision of the Digital Preservation Handbook. This work has been undertaken under the direction of William Kilbride, Executive Director of the DPC and editor Neil Beagrie, supported by an extensive advisory board and set of contributors.
Direct to Full Text, Digital Preservation Handbook (HTML Version)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.