Guidance on Distributed Digital Preservation

This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, the first in a series of volumes describing successful collaborative strategies, articulating specific new models that may help organizations work together for their mutual benefit in this field.

While replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite preservation of materials without degradation, the establishment of effective organizational and technical processes to enable this form of digital preservation can be an intimidating process. Institutions need practical examples of how this task can be accomplished in manageable and economical ways. Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital preservation. The guide has been written for a broad audience, including administrators and lawyers as well as librarians, archivists, scholars, curators and technologists.

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Publication: Educopia, Atlanta, USA, 2010.