Digital Curation: A How-To-Do-It Manual

Abstract

In this day and age, just about everyone creates digital data. The challenges that face the long term preservation of digital data are enormous, especially for librarians and archivists who are not only data creators and users, but data curators. Ross Harvey has written an in-depth manual of best practices regarding digital curation. Harvey has over ten years of experience serving as a professor in graduate programs for library and information studies in the United States and abroad. He has published extensively in the fields of library education and bibliographic organization. Additionally, his research and teaching interests include the preservation of digital materials in libraries and archives and the history of the book