Long-Term Preservation of Digital Documents Principles and Practices /

• Main Authors: Borghoff, Uwe M. (Author), Rödig, Peter (Author), Schmitz, Lothar (Author), Scheffczyk, Jan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Cultural heritage.; Library science.; Information storage and retrieval.; Text processing (Computer science).; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Library Science.; Document Preparation and Text Processing.; Cultural Heritage.

Key to our culture is that we can disseminate information, and then maintain and access it over time. While we are rapidly advancing from vulnerable physical solutions to superior, digital media, preserving and using data over the long term involves complicated research challenges and organization e...

Table of Contents:

• Methodology
• Long-Term Preservation of Digital Documents
• OAIS and DSEP Organizational Models
• Migration
• Emulation
• Document Markup
• Standard Markup Languages
• Discussion
• Recent Preservation Initiatives
• Markup: Current Research and Development
• Migration: Current Research and Development
• Emulation: Current Research and Development
• Software Systems for Archiving.