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Digital Archives: Management, Access and Use offers an overview of the constantly evolving technological changes and improvements in the world and how digital archiving is affected by this. This book provides insights from international experts who…

This journal article dissects the experiences and professional lessons absorbed through the development and planning of the University of Maryland Archive, implemented by the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) at the University of…

This journal article documents the history and digitization efforts performed and enforced by the International Employee Assistance Digital Archive (EA Archive), housed at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Social Work (UMSSW). The…

Given modern society's need to control its ever-increasing body of information, digital libraries will be among the most important and influential institutions of this century. With their versatility, accessibility, and economy, these focused…

Special or rare documents require extra attention with regards to refurbishing and maintaining its structure. This text involves the complex frame work with regards to digital preservation, curation, and promoting a standardized method for saving…

Instead of the traditional step-by-step tutorials, this book references descriptive information on a large variety of topics regarding the preservation of digital archives and databases. The book is divided into 4 main segments that highlight some of…

In this edited volume, Gesa Kirsch and Liz Rohan explore the "backstory" of what goes into an archive. They dig deep into the research, political aspects, and decisions on what to archive. Many of the essays address the considerations involved in…

The David Rumsey Map Collection features nearly 50,000 historical maps spanning from 1492 to the present-day. More than simply a repository, the website is an interactive database giving users the ability to download the actual record and create…

This paper represents viewpoints from scholars, librarians, archivists, technologists, lawyers and journalists at the University of Missouri on addressing the problems of preserving born-digital news. The crisis of losing decades of journalistic work…

This paper presents a case study of utilizing the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) format to encode rare and special collections at the McGill University library. The theme of this case study is the TEI’s flexible encoding format that was able to meet…