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Partners for Preservation: Advancing Digital Preservation through Cross-Community Collaboration
ISBN: 9781783303496
Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Facet
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited

Who could be partners to archivists working in digital preservation? This book features chapters from international contributors from diverse backgrounds and professions discussing their challenges with and victories over digital problems that share common issues with those facing digital preservationists.
The only certainty about technology is that it will change. The speed of that change, and the ever increasing diversity of digital formats, tools, and platforms, will present stark challenges to the long-term preservation of digital records. Archivists are frequently challenged by the technical expertise, subject matter knowledge, time, and resource requirements needed to solve the broad set of challenges sure to be faced by the archival profession. Partners for Preservation advocates the need for archivists to recruit partners and learn lessons from across diverse professions to work more effectively within the digital landscape.
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This book will be useful reading for professional archivists and others responsible for digital preservation, students of archival studies and digital preservation.

Jeanne Kramer-Smyth has been an archivist with the World Bank Group Archives for five years. She earned her Masters of Library Science from the Archives, Records and Information Management Program at the University of Maryland iSchool after a 20 year career as a software developer designing relational databases, creating custom database software and participating in web based software development. She is the author of Spellbound Blog where she has published dozens of essays exploring the intersection of archives, technology, metadata, visualization and the web.