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Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage by Katja Müller examines how museums and archives create and curate their online presence. It explores how archivists in India and Europe decide how to create their digital…

In this article Dale Flecker, the Associate Director for Planning and Systems at Harvard University Library advocates greater involvement by the nation’s scholarly community in the process of preservation and archiving of material. Flecker warns that…

Cunningham avers that digital archiving, digital curation, digital libraries, and digital museums are distinctly different functions despite the common conflation of the terms by the public. In this article, he argues that digital archiving should…

This article discusses the importance of differentiating between the terms digital archiving and digital curation and explains how the obfuscation of these phrases can limit the necessary resources that must be given to digital archiving practices.…

With its roots in discussions following the 2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics is an examination of the pedagogy of digital…

In this chapter, Duncan and Ekmekcioglu present a range of responses by digital libraries and repositories to their institutions and users. Most institutions blend features of three models: massive repositories, which provide wide access but limit…

This book examines various approaches to digital preservation of Indigenous history, culture, and communication. Historically, those aspects are passed orally through family as opposed to officially recorded and stored, risking the loss of…

Doris Hamburg, Director of Preservation Programs, takes viewers to the state of the art digital processing lab at the National Archives at College Park. Inside the lab, Jennifer Seitz, Digital Imaging Specialist, and Norris White, Digital Imaging…

This book presents information managers with all the strategic and practical issues to consider when making the decision to digitize their collections. It runs through the digitization process step by step, outlines the different techniques available…

The official website of Encoded Archival Description (EAD), details the history and evolution of this essential finding aid for archives and archival holdings. The site also includes principles and guidelines for each EAD version, tools and helper…