No-nonsense Guide to Born-digital Content

This book offers a comprehensive, entry-level guide thatfocuses explicitly on how to collect and manage born-digital content for ‘bootson the ground’ practitioners. Libraries and archives of all sizes are collecting andmanaging an increasing proportion of digital content. Within this body ofdigital content is a growing pool of ‘born-digital’ content: content that hasbeen created and has often existed solely in digital form. Providing continued,sustainable access to a wide array of born-digital content is a challenge forlibraries and archives, particularly because of the broad and highly technicalskills needed to build and sustain born-digital content management workflows. The No-Nonsense Guideto Born Digital Content provides an entry level how-to guide that aims tohelp ease inexperienced students and practitioners into this area. It explainsstep by step processes for developing and implementing born-digital contentworkflows in library and archive settings of all sizes and includes a range ofcase studies collected from small, medium and large institutionsinternationally. Including:the wide range of digital storagemedia and why this is different to, and similar to, existing contentthe various sources ofborn-digital content and how they are appraised and considered for collectionretrieving and preparing contentto allow it to be brought into the library or archivestorage systems and applyingarchival arrangement philosophiesdescription, preservation andaccessmethods for designing workflowsfor born-digital collection processingstrategies and philosophies tomove forward as technologies change.This book will be useful reading for LIS and archivalstudents and professionals who are working with, or plan to work with, borndigital content. It will also be of interest to museum professionals, datamanagers, data scientists, and records managers.