Digital Preservation Handbook

Digital Preservation Handbook

Digital Humanities

The purpose of the Digital Preservation Handbook is to guide scholars, archivists and communities on the importance of preserving their digital materials that they have collected. The handbook is online, so it is accessible to everyone who is seeking introduction to preservation and the purpose it holds for preserving digital sources. It focuses on the rapid increase of digital forms that are being published on the daily and the handbook is bringing awareness to these digital materials. The Handbook is a guide set for the long term in maintaining, creating and investing digital materials. Sources are complicated data and need to be handled with a lot of thought and patience. The Handbook explores preservation’s major topics and issues, and it helps others come up with strategic options on handling these problems. It is also important to know how to handle the practical tools in the process of preservation so there are no challenges faced.
Digital materials is a growing aspect in our culture, knowledge and economy that preserving information will benefit future generations. If there are no guides to help current digital communities on the importance of preservation, then future digital communities will fault in handling and preserving material.

Digital Preservation Coalition

Online Book

2020

Janet Jaimes

Coalition, Digital Preservation. “Digital Preservation Handbook.” Digital Preservation Coalition, 2020. https://www.dpconline.org/handbook.