Preserving Digital Materials

The third edition of Preserving Digital Materials is now the single best volume on digital preservation. Thoroughly updated to incorporate knowledge from fifteen years of best practice, the book offers conceptually clear insight on how to keep digital information accessible. -- Paul Conway, associate professor, University of Michigan School of Information
The preservation of digital heritage is an ongoing pursuit. After over twenty years of digital preservation initiatives, there is still little standardization. But there is a useful guide: Preserving Digital Materials. Now in its third edition, Ross Harvey, and his new co-author, Jaye Weatherburn, elucidate the ongoing challenges and successes in the quest for digital sustainability. The third edition broadens our perspective about the contemporary preservation environment. It brings the reader up to date on the many robust and international digital programs. Readers will come away from this book understanding how enormous the responsibility of preserving digital content is; they should also be comforted by the variety of strategies being developed. The authors guide us well through this complex terrain. -- Michele V. Cloonan, editor-in-chief, PDT&C, and dean emerita and professor, School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College