Long Term Preservation Of Digital Documents

Download or read book Long-Term Preservation of Digital Documents written by Uwe M. Borghoff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human culture depends on our ability to disseminate information, and then maintain and access it over time. This book addresses the problems of storing, reading, and using digital data for periods longer than 50 years. They offer concise descriptions of markup and document description languages like TIFF, PDF, HTML, and XML, explain important techniques such as migration and emulation, and present the OAIS (Open Archival Information System) Reference Model.