Digital Curation Projects Made Easy
Author | : Carmen Cowick |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2018-08-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781538103524 |
ISBN-13 | : 1538103524 |
Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Digital Curation Projects Made Easy: A Step-By-Step Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums outlines simple steps for accomplishing practical digitization and digital preservation projects for those with little experience, time, and/or resources. Following a general introduction, instructions for completing these commonplace digital curation projects are covered: Photograph collections Newspaper collection Rare books Art Collections Oral Histories Digital curation does not need to be reserved for big budgets or world-famous collections. In fact, a large part of digitization and digital preservation consists of practical projects that are done every day without much fanfare in libraries and archives around the world.