Digital curation in the digital humanities reserving and promoting archival and special collections

• Main Author: Sabharwal, Arjun (Author)
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: Waltham, MA Chandos Publishing 2015
• Series: Chandos information professional series
• Subjects: Digital preservation; Archival materials > Conservation and restoration
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• Physical Description: xiii, 167 pages illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780081001431

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.