Seeing the whole elephant: an integrated approach to managing preservation
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BROWN, Heather and HARVEY, Ross (2013) Seeing the whole elephant: an integrated approach to managing preservation. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2013 - Singapore - Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities in Session 146 - Information Technology with Preservation and Conservation, Rare Books and Manuscripts and Library and Research Services for Parliaments.
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Abstract
Seeing the whole elephant: an integrated approach to managing preservation
Today’s hybrid collections demand new ways of thinking about preservation. There is a need for an integrated approach combining the current largely disparate fields of digital and physical preservation, to inform prioritisation of information resources requiring preservation attention, assist in shaping integrated workflows, and enable sharing of strategies across physical and digital formats. This paper explores an integrated approach through the analogy of the traditional Indian story of the six blind men and the elephant. It investigates some preventive and copying strategies as examples of approaches that apply these common principles across digital and physical formats, and concludes with observations on the benefits of seeing the whole preservation elephant.Ver “el elefante completo”: un enfoque integrado en materia de gestión de la preservación
Las colecciones híbridas de la actualidad exigen nuevas formas de analizar el tema de la preservación. Un enfoque integrado que combine los campos de la preservación digital y de la preservación física debe dar prioridad a los recursos de información relacionados con la preservación, asistir en el diseño de los flujos laborales integrados y posibilitar el uso compartido de estrategias a través de formatos físicos y digitales. Este trabajo explora el enfoque integrado a través de la analogía que surge de la tradicional historia india sobre los seis hombres ciegos y el elefante. Analiza algunas estrategias preventivas y de imitación como ejemplos de enfoques que aplican estos principios comunes a través de formatos digitales y físicos, y finaliza haciendo algunas observaciones sobre los beneficios de considerar en su totalidad el tema de la preservación.Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) | |||||||||
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Conference details: | IFLA WLIC 2013 - Singapore - Future Libraries: Infinite PossibilitiesSession 146 - Preserving for the future: Integrating physical and digital preservation - Information Technology with Preservation and Conservation, Rare Books and Manuscripts and Library and Research Services for ParliamentsTrack 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy |
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Divisions: | Division 1 Library Types > Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section Division 2 Library Collections > Preservation and Conservation Section Division 2 Library Collections > Rare Books and Special Collections Section Division 3 Library Services > Information Technology Section |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | digital preservation; traditional preservation; preservation management; risk management | |||||||||
Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2013 11:26 | |||||||||
Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2017 08:53 | |||||||||
URI: | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/246 |
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