List of Figures ................................................ ix
List of Tables ................................................. xi
Preface ...................................................... xiii
CHAPTER 1 Why Use Digital Preservation? ....................... 1
CHAPTER 2 How Do Computers Store Information? ................ 11
CHAPTER 3 Storing Images ..................................... 25
CHAPTER 4 Storing Text ....................................... 37
CHAPTER 5 Storing Audio and Video ............................ 51
CHAPTER 6 CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray ............................. 63
CHAPTER 7 Magnetic Tape ...................................... 75
CHAPTER 8 Hard Drives ........................................ 89
CHAPTER 9 Flash Memory ...................................... 103
CHAPTER 10 Cloud Computing ................................... 115
CHAPTER 11 Equipment for Digitizing and Editing Archival
Materials ......................................... 129
CHAPTER 12 Metadata and Accessing Information ................ 145
CHAPTER 13 Copyright Law ..................................... 159
CHAPTER 14 Problems with Digital Archiving ................... 175
CHAPTER 15 Putting It All Together ........................... 187
Index ......................................................... 205
About the Author .............................................. 209
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