Archiving, Preservation & Digitisation

In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Nige...

Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction and exploration of ontologies and demonstrates their value t...

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine th...

Recordkeeping Cultures explores how an understanding of organisational information culture provides the insight necessary for the development and p...

This landmark edited collection offers a wide-ranging overview of how rapid technological changes and the push for providing wide access to digitiz...

This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, expanding the definition of community archives to include sites such as histori...

This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, expanding the definition of community archives to include sites such as histori...

This ground-breaking edited collection explores the challenges of preserving complex digital objects such as simulations, visualisations, digital a...

Art Without Waste features 500 upcycled and Earth-friendly designs from cutting-edge designers, illustrators and artists around the world. With a b...

Archives and special collections organize rare books, manuscripts, and unique objects. They must at once process and preserve special materials, an...

Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction and exploration of ontologies and demonstrates their value t...

This book explores the analysis and interpretation, discovery and retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects, including image, music and moving ...

This book explores the analysis and interpretation, discovery and retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects, including image, music and moving ...

This research tradition has arisen from a specific set of historical, disciplinary and institutional conditions. The very emergence of 'documentati...

In recent years big data initiatives, not to mention Hollywood, the video game industry and countless other popular media, have reinforced and even...