Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities: Preserving and Promoting Archival and Special Collections (Chandos Information Professional Series) - Softcover

Sabharwal, Arjun

9781843347866: Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities: Preserving and Promoting Archival and Special Collections (Chandos Information Professional Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843347865 ISBN 13: 9781843347866

Publisher: Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd, 2015

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Digital humanities have transformed the production, curation, and accessibility of humanistic information in a rapidly evolving techno-cultural and interdisciplinary intellectual landscape. From the early days of text-encoded initiatives to the digitization of cultural heritage and local history content and yet again to data curation using linked data and semantic technologies, the need to preserve the content and metadata continues to receive much attention in professional literature. Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities addresses practical and theoretical aspects of digital curation as it evolves in archival curation practice, social media, and e-learning. The growing demand for e-learning presents archives and special collections staff with opportunities to preserve and promote archival and special collections. This book takes a systems approach to digital curation - a model requiring collaboration among archives, libraries, researchers, faculty, technologists, and administrators.

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About the Author

Arjun Sabharwal joined the University of Toledo Library faculty in January 2009 as Assistant Professor and Digital Initiatives Librarian. He holds a Master of Library and Information Science and a Graduate Certificate in Archival Administration in addition to previously earned graduate degrees. He oversees the digital preservation of archival collections, manages the Toledo's Attic virtual museum web site, designs virtual exhibitions, leads the planning and implementation of UTOPIA (The University of Toledo OPen Institutional Archive) and the University of Toledo Digital Repository at the university, and manages digitization projects. Current professional interests include archiving, digital humanities, digital history, and developing thematic research collections. He has authored several research articles and reviews, and presented at conferences on work related to archives and digital libraries. Since 2010, he has engaged in digital scholarship via his international blog on ResearchGate titled Digital Humanities and Archives.

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