Innovations Affecting Us-Octavo Revolutionizes Digital Publishing and Preservation

E-publishing in libraries: the [Digital] preservation imperative

Purpose – This paper aims to, through an analysis of the current literature, explore the current state of the library e-publishing community and its approach to preservation. Libraries are increasingly proposing publishing services as part of their workwith their communities, and recently, there has been a pronounced interest in providing electronic publishing (e-publishing) services. The libra...

Digital manuscripts and electronic publishing

The publication of Vannevar Bush’s seminal paper, As we may think, in 1945 was closely followed by the invention of the electronic digital computer in 1948. In the following 50 years much of Bush’s vision has been realised by computer scientists. We can store vast amounts of data including speech and video in computers, and we can transmit them over networks. We can annotate the material with e...

Digital Publishing: tension and attention

The ways in which we both produce and consume content has been a constant state of technologyled evolution. However, the perceived speed of change is now greater, and with that speed comes disruption (as was the case with the music industry around a decade ago). This work will look at the “content economy” where it has come from, where it is going, and whether the world of iPad-clutching consum...

Embracing Digital Publishing

Digital Archives and Preservation

DEFINITION Preservation is the set of processes that maintain the authenticity, integrity, and chain of custody of records for long periods of time. Authenticity is defined as the management of provenance information about the creation of the record. Integrity is defined as the ability to create an authentic copy. Chain of custody tracks all processing done to the record, including migration to...