| Abstrakt: |
The rapid growth in the creation and dissemination of digital objects by authors, publishers, corporations, governments, librarians, archivists, and museum curators has emphasized the speed and ease of short-term dissemination with little regard for the long-term preservation of digital information. However, digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm, and because of the speed of technological advances, the time frame in which archiving must be considered becomes much shorter, i.e., the time between manufacture and preservation is shrinking. Reports on a study resulting from the efforts of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) to highlight the importance of digital archiving. Identifies more than 30 digital archiving projects, selecting 18 as the most 'cutting edge.' Presents the best practices discerned by the study in the framework of the information life cycle: creation, acquisition, cataloging and identification, storage, preservation, and access. Discusses each of these parameters in depth, and explains how to make archiving part of the publishing process from the beginning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
