Digital Archives: Management, Use and Access

Foreword by Professor Kalpana Shankar, Head of School of Information & Communication Studies, University College Dublin

This collection presents an expansive look at how rapid technological changes and the push for providing wide access to digitized cultural heritage holdings are changing the field. It offers up a set of inspirational and informative chapters from international experts that will help readers understand the drivers for change in archives and their implications. Among the topics explored are:

• cultural institutions that are experimenting with sustainable business models for cultural production;
• the digitization of analog cultural heritage;
• intellectual property rights issues surrounding the re-use of digital objects and data for research, education, advocacy, and art;
• state-of-the-art solutions for building digital archives on networked infrastructure;
• trusted digital repositories for ensuring long-term access; and
• tools to serve emerging needs in digital humanities.

Author: Milena Dobreva
Published: 2018
Publisher: Facet Publishing, UK
Pages: 224
Width: 6"
Height: 9"
Format: Softcover