The No-Nonsense Guide To Born-Digital Content (No-nonsense Guides)

The No-Nonsense Guide to Born Digital Content offers a comprehensive, entry-level guide that focuses collecting and managing born-digital content for "boots on the ground" practitioners.

Libraries and archives of all sizes are collecting and managing an increasing proportion of digital material. Within this body of digital content is a growing pool of "born-digital" content: content that has been created and has often existed solely in digital form. Providing continued, sustainable access to a wide array of born-digital content is a challenge for
libraries and archives, particularly because of the broad and highly technical skills needed to build and sustain born-digital content management workflows.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Born Digital Content provides an entry level how-to guide that eases inexperienced students and practitioners into this area. It explains step-by-step processes for developing and implementing born-digital content workflows in library and archive settings of all sizes and includes a range of case studies collected from small, medium and large institutions internationally. Including chapters on:

• the wide range of digital storage media and how these media are both different and similar to current technologies
• the sources of born-digital content and how they are appraised and considered for collection
• retrieving and preparing content to be brought into the library or archive storage systems, along with applying archival arrangement philosophies
• description, preservation and access of this content
• methods for designing workflows centered on born-digital collection processing
• strategies and philosophies to move forward as technologies change

This book will be invaluable reading for LIS and archival students and professionals who are working with, or plan to work with, born-digital content. It will also be of interest to museum professionals, data managers, data scientists, and records managers.