Digital Curation Projects Made Easy: A Step-by-Step Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Digital Preservation Made Easy: A Simple Step-By-Step Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums outlines simple steps for accomplishing practical digital preservation projects for those with little experience, time, or resources. Following a general introduction, step-by-step guides for completing these commonplace digital preservation projects are covered:

·Oral histories
·Photograph collections
·Scrapbooks and newspapers
·Rare books
·Audio and Film materials

Digital preservation does not need to be reserved for big budgets or world-famous collections; in fact, a large part of digital preservation consists of projects that are done without much fanfare. These are the practical digital projects done every day in libraries and archives around the world. This book breaks down popular digital preservation projects into easily completed steps.