Building Digital Archives, Descriptions, and Displays: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Archivists and Librarians

Building Digital Archives, Descriptions, and Displays: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Archivists and Librarians

Web archiving

Author and archivist Frederick Stielow reviews fundamental principles and practices of archiving and outlines the technical steps and intellectual rationale for adding metadata, developing encoding schemas, and designing the web interface. Of particular interest to builders and managers of digital archives are the guidelines for preparing collections for deep and surface web searching. Encoding finding aids according to technological and professional standards may ensure long-term preservation but may or may not represent culturally appropriate or fully accessible content for a larger public. A thorough understanding of the content's cultural as well as technical properties should inform the vocabulary, encoding, description, and representation of the digitized artifacts.

Stielow, Frederick

Neal Schuman Publishers

2003

Polk, Victoria

Book

ISBN-13: 978-1555704636

ISBN-10: 1555704638

Stielow, Frederick. Building Digital Archives, Descriptions, and Displays: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Archivists and Librarians.  2003