Digital Preservation and Metadata: History, Theory, Practice (Paperback)

Part I: Issues Chapter 1: Why Is Digital Preservation an Issue? Chapter 2: What Electronic Data Should Be Preserved? Chapter 3: Who Should Be Responsible for Digital Preservations? Chapter 4: How Can Electronic Publications Be Prepared? Chapter 5: How Much Will It Cost? Part II: Models, Formats, and Standards Chapter 6: Models for Syntactic and Semantic Interoperability: Metalanguages and Metadata Formats Chapter 7: Standards for Structural Interoperability: Frameworks and Wrapper Technology Chapter 8: From Theory to Reality: Selected Electronic Data Archives in the United States Chapter 9: Further Reality: International Digital Cultural Heritage Centers and Sites and Electronic Data Archives Bibliography Index