Digital Curation Fundamentals is for anyone who wants to help save knowledge for future use, but knows little-to-nothing about digital curation or how it fits with their jobs. This book is also for administrators who need to stay on top of things but don’t yet have a good grasp on the purpose and scope of digital curation and how central it is to the future. Additionally, this book is a reference handbook for those who are involved in digital curation in some form but who need the context to know how their work fits into the big picture, and what comes next. Provided by publisher.

Includes index.

What is digital curation? --What can I/we do? -- Models : which ones do I use when? -- Emulation, migration, or encapsulation? -- How do I identify and select content? -- What foundational work will prepare content for preservation and access? -- Storage, protection, and monitoring: what do I do? -- How do I provide access throughout time? -- How can I leverage the community?. What is digital curation? -- What can I/we do? -- Models: which ones do I use when? -- Emulation, migration, or encapsulation? -- How do I identify and select content? -- What foundational work will prepare content for preservation and access? -- Storage, protection, and monitoring: what do I do? -- How do I provide access throughout time? -- How can I leverage the community?