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Archives and special collections departments have a long history of preserving and providing long-term access to organizational records, rare books, and other unique primary sources including manuscripts, photographs, recordings, and artifacts in various formats. The careful curatorial attention to such records has also ensured that such records remain available to researchers and the public as sources of knowledge, memory, and identity. Digital curation presents an important framework for the continued preservation of digitized and born-digital collections, given the ephemeral and device-dependent nature of digital content. With the emergence of analog and digital media formats in close succession (compared to earlier paper- and film-based formats) came new standards, technologies, methods, documentation, and workflows to ensure safe storage and access to content and associated metadata. Researchers in the digital humanities have extensively applied computing to research; for them, continued access to primary data and cultural heritage means both the continuation of humanities scholarship and new methodologies not possible without digital technology. Digital Curation in the Digit
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Arjun Sabharwal
- Publisher
- Chandos Publishing
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780081001431
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Computer Science, Reference
- Rating
- 3 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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