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Digital Curation Ross Harvey

Digital Curation By Ross Harvey

Digital Curation by Ross Harvey

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International authority Ross Harvey's new how-to-do-it manual is the first one-stop resource in digital curation, and guides readers to understand and make the best use of the wide-ranging combinations of strategies, technological approaches, and activities that apply to this rapidly-emerging field.

Digital Curation Summary

Digital Curation: A How-to-do-it Manual by Ross Harvey

International authority Ross Harvey's new how-to-do-it manual is the first one-stop resource in digital curation, and guides readers to understand and make the best use of the wide-ranging combinations of strategies, technological approaches, and activities that apply to this rapidly-emerging field. Any information professional who appraises, selects, organizes, or maintains digital resources acts as a digital curator. Whether you are a librarian, archivist, or records manager, you will find useful concepts here for a professional setting.
Harvey offers an in-depth, start-to-finish explanation of the digital curation process, and clarifies each step in the Digital Curation Centre's (DCC) lifecycle model, including:
  • create or receive
  • appraise and select
  • ingest
  • preservation action
  • store
  • access, use, and reuse
  • transform.
You will learn best practices for improving data access, quality, and protection, and find time-saving tools such as an extensive directory of online resources, tutorials and further references in the area. Book buyers receive exclusive access to a password-protected companion website that offers electronic, customizable versions of planning forms, checklists, and more.
This book's essential techniques and expert advice are crucial to ensuring that today's digital resources will be available to and useable by future generations.

Digital Curation Reviews

Overall the author has masterfully brought together a great deal of knowledge around a very important topic for many archivists and information staff. Here is a sound intellectual framework and basis for digital curation, ideally beyond its original academic environment. -- Program
A comprehensive and clearly written guide to digital curation, this is indeed a publication, that is very much needed, and it certainly delivers on expectations. -- The Electronic Library
...a welcome, timely and useful collection of resources, opinions and accepted best practice, assiduously gathered, soundly organised, and elegantly stitched together. -- Library Review
Harvey has worked his alchemy to provide an informed and yet practical piece of work.
Digital Curation places in one volume a wealth of information about a subject whose territorial shorelines are just now being developed. By delineating threats, core skills, research knowledge, life cycle requirements, functional entities, correlations, descriptive formats, risk matrices, preservation methods and a sharing continuum, Harvey establishes a foundation for the digital professional for years to come. -- Collection Building
This book is very well-written in a style that lends itself to easy comprehension. It is an essential reference resource for anyone needing a basic, yet thorough, overview of the complex subjects of digital curation and digital preservation. You certainly do not need to be a digital curator in order to find this book useful, but if you are, you may come away with a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities that your position should entail. -- Partnership
I would recommend the book to use not only in practical work but in digital curation teaching as well. It may play a role of an introductory textbook in modern digital preservation in addition to its direct more applied function. -- Information Research
Harvey shares his wealth of knowledge in a simple-to-read text and provides ample resources for those who want to learn more ... Digital Curation is an extremely useful work that should be read by multiple audiences. It will help archivists and librarians understand digital curation; it can be used by educators to explain digital curation to aspiring archivists and librarians; and it provides a strong framework for archivists and librarians who are responsible for curating digital materials. Harvey's manual provides an important reference resource to archival and library communities and should be mandated reading for professionals tasked with curating digital content. -- Archival Issues
This book about digital curation is clearly written, useful, and fascinating. If you are new to this subject or even if you think you know a lot about it already, this book will provide you with new insights. -- The American Archivist
Digital Curation covers this emerging field from the ground up ... its depth and approach would make it an ideal textbook for a graduate course on digital curation. -- Journal of Web Librarianship
Accompanied by a website, this work will benefit any librarians, archivists, or other professionals whose work involves preservation of and access to digital material. -- Library Journal
This volume is a comprehensive resource of best practices in digital curation, useful for current practitioners, those considering working in digital curation, and those studying in the field...Whether looking for conceptual models or how to define data, how to share knowledge and collaborate on preservation planning and policy, or working with data, this book will assist all. -- ARBA Online

About Ross Harvey

Ross Harvey is Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, a position he has held since 2008. Before joining Simmons he was the inaugural Professor of Library and Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia, from 1999 to 2008, and he has held positions at other universities in Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand. Visiting Professorships at the University of British Columbia (2008) and the University of Glasgow (2007-2008) allowed him to observe first hand current digital preservation and digital curation practice and research

Table of Contents

PART I: DIGITAL CURATION: SCOPE AND INCENTIVES
1. Introduction
  • Why There Is a Need for Digital Curation
  • What Digital Curation Is
  • Why We Should Be Interested in Digital Curation
  • Incentives for Digital Curation
  • Direct Benefits to Data Creators
  • Public Good Obligations
  • Compliance Reasons
  • Digital Curators
  • Summary: Main Characteristics of Digital Curation
  • References
2. The Changing Landscape
  • Cyberscholarship: New Ways of Working
  • Cyberscholarship in Practice
  • E-science
  • Cyberscholarship's Requirements and Challenges
  • Content
  • Tools and Services
  • Expertise
  • Digital Curation: A New Profession, New Requirements
  • Educating and Training Digital Curators
  • Summary: Meeting the New Demands
  • References
3. Conceptual Models
  • The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model
  • The Digital Curation Centre
  • Other Lifecycle Models
  • The OAIS Reference Model
  • OAIS Functions
  • Actors and Objects
  • OAIS Information Packages
  • OAIS and the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model
  • Summary: The Importance of Models
  • References
4. Defining Data
  • Data as Digital Heritage
  • Born-Digital and Digitized Data
  • Data-And Much More
  • Metadata Is Data Too
  • Databases
  • Summary: New Kinds of Data
  • References
PART II: KEY REQUIREMENTS FOR DIGITAL CURATION
5. Curation and Curators
  • Aims of Digital Curation
  • Scope of Digital Curation
  • Ensuring Longevity
  • Ensuring Integrity
  • Maintaining Accessibility
  • Roles of Digital Curators
  • Funding Bodies
  • Discipline Groups
  • Data Creators
  • Data Users and Reusers
  • Data Curators
  • Summary: Managing Curation
  • References
6. Description and Representation Information
  • The Need for Description and Representation Information
  • Definitions
  • Standards for Description and Representation
  • Information
  • Description Information
  • Preservation Metadata
  • Persistent Identifiers
  • Metadata Schemas and Standards
  • PREMIS
  • METS
  • MODS and MADS
  • Representation Information
  • OAIS and Representation Information
  • Sharing Representation Information
  • Policies for Description and Representation Information
  • Summary: Curation Needs Metadata
  • References
7. Preservation Planning and Policy
  • Risk Management as the Context for Preservation Planning
  • Key Planning Steps
  • Planning for Sequential Actions
  • Planning for Full Lifecycle Actions
  • Policy for Curation
  • What Policies Address
  • Kinds of Policies Required
  • Costs of Curation
  • Summary: Planning for Active Management
  • References
8. Sharing Knowledge and Collaborating
  • Keeping Up-to-Date
  • Starting Points
  • Online Tutorials
  • Project Websites
  • Blogs and E-mail Lists
  • Online Journals
  • Other Sources
  • Collaboration: Intrinsic to Digital Curation
  • Standards: Essential for Digital Curation
  • Tools and Toolkits
  • Summary: Collaboration Is the Key
  • References
PART III: THE DIGITAL CURATION LIFECYCLE IN ACTION
9. Designing Data
  • Designing Curation-Ready Data
  • Importance of Standards
  • Designing Projects with Curation in Mind
  • Three Examples
  • Summary: Planning Data for Curation
  • References
10. Creating Data
  • Policies for Creating and Receiving Data
  • Creating Data for Curation
  • Structuring Data for Use and Reuse
  • Open Formats and Open Source
  • Significant Properties and Authenticity
  • Documentation
  • Influencing Data Creators
  • Structuring Data for Management
  • Data Management
  • Data Quality
  • Structuring Data for Discoverability
  • Receiving Data for Curation
  • Summary: The Positive Effects of Good Data
  • References
11. Deciding What Data to Keep
  • What Is Appraisal?
  • What Data Do We Want to Keep?
  • Drivers for Keeping Data
  • Why We Can't Keep Everything
  • How Long Do We Want to Keep Those Data?
  • Appraisal and Selection Policies #
  • Who Decides?
  • Appraisal Tools
  • Two Examples
  • Selection and Archiving of Websites
  • Appraisal of Scientific Data Sets
  • Reappraisal
  • Disposal of Data
  • Transfer of Data
  • Destruction of Data
  • Summary: The Necessity for Appraisal and Selection
  • References
12. Ingesting Data
  • OAIS and Ingest
  • Ingest Processes in More Detail
  • Submitting SIPs
  • Receiving SIPs
  • Generating AIPs
  • Ingest Tools
  • Policies for Ingest
  • Summary: Automation Is the Key
  • References
13. Preserving Data
  • Digital Preservation Methods
  • Migration in Practice
  • Implementing Migration
  • Migration Changes Data
  • Automating Preservation Actions
  • Tools
  • Metadata Tools
  • Format Validation, Format Registry, and Obsolescence
  • Notification Tools
  • Normalizing and Encapsulation Tools
  • Migration Tools
  • Emulation Tools
  • Web Archiving Tools
  • Other Curation Tools
  • Tool Development
  • Summary: Methods and Tools
  • References
14. Storing Data
  • Storage Requirements
  • Organizational Structure and Continuity
  • Technical Infrastructure and Practices
  • Best Practice in Data Storage
  • Ensuring Quality of Storage
  • OAIS Reference Model
  • Trusted Digital Repositories
  • Audit and Certification
  • Backing Up Data
  • Data Security
  • Physical Security
  • Network and File Security
  • Repository Software and Storage Solutions
  • Fedora, DSpace, EPrints, and Other Repository Software
  • Storage Solutions
  • New Models for Collaboration
  • Summary: Storing Data Securely
  • References
15. Using and Reusing Data
  • Access, Use, and Reuse
  • Sharing Data
  • Building Blocks for Sharing and Reusing Data
  • Standards
  • Standards for Repository Functionality
  • Standards for Interoperability
  • Structuring Data for Access
  • Citing Data
  • Legal Issues
  • Collaboration Processes
  • Annotation
  • Provenance
  • Access Controls and Authentication Procedures
  • Transform
  • Migration
  • Creating New Data
  • Conclusion: The Lifecycle Continues
  • References

Additional information

GOR009728811
9781856047333
1856047334
Digital Curation: A How-to-do-it Manual by Ross Harvey
Ross Harvey
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Facet Publishing
20100827
250
Winner of Society of American Archivists Preservation Publication Award 2011 (United States)
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