List of figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. What is Preservation in the Digital Age? Changing Preservation Paradigms -- Introduction -- Changing paradigms -- The need for a new preservation paradigm -- Changing definitions -- Preservation definitions in the digital world -- What exactly are we trying to preserve? -- How long are we preserving them for? -- What strategies and actions do we apply? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Why do we Preserve? Who Should do it? -- Introduction -- Why preserve digital materials? -- Professional imperatives -- New stakeholders -- How much data have we lost? -- Current state of awareness of digital preservation problems -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Why There's a Problem: Digital Artifacts and Digital Objects -- Introduction -- Modes of digital death -- Digital storage media -- Magnetic media -- Optical disks -- The future for digital storage media -- Digital objects - more than digital artifacts -- Loss of functionality of access devices -- Loss of manipulation and presentation capabilities -- Weak links in the documentation chain and loss of contextual information -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Selection for Preservation - The Critical Decision -- Introduction -- Selection for preservation, cultural heritage, and professional practice -- Selection criteria traditionally used by libraries and archives -- Why traditional selection criteria do not apply to digital materials -- IPR, context, stakeholders, and lifecycle models -- Intellectual property rights and legal deposit -- Context and community -- Stakeholder input -- Value of lifecycle models -- Developing selection frameworks for preserving digital materials -- Some selection frameworks -- How much to select? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. What Attributes of Digital Materials Do We Preserve? -- Introduction.

Digital materials, technology, and data -- The importance of preserving context -- The OAIS Reference Model -- The role of metadata -- Preservation metadata -- Preservation metadata standards -- Persistent identifiers -- Authenticity -- Significant properties -- Research into authenticity -- Functional Requirements for Evidence in Recordkeeping Project (Pittsburgh) -- InterPARES -- Trusted digital repositories -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Overview of Digital Preservation Strategies -- Introduction -- Historical overview -- Who is doing what? -- Criteria for effective strategies and practices -- Broader concerns -- Standards -- Planning -- Policies -- Sustainability -- Typologies of principles, strategies, and practices -- A typology of digital preservation? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7. 'Preserve Technology' Approaches: Tried and Tested Methods -- Introduction -- 'Non-solutions' -- Do nothing -- Storage and handling practices -- Durable/persistent digital storage media -- Analogue backups -- Digital archaeology and digital forensics -- 'Preserve technology' approaches -- Technology preservation -- Technology watch -- Emulation -- The Universal Virtual Computer -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8. 'Preserve Objects' Approaches: New Frontiers? -- Introduction -- 'Preserve Objects' approaches -- Bit-stream copying, refreshing, and replication -- Bit-stream copying -- Refreshing -- Replication -- Standard data formats -- File format registries -- Standardizing file formats -- Restricting the range of file formats -- Developing archival file formats -- XML -- Migration -- Viewers and migration on request -- Encapsulation -- Storage -- Combining principles, strategies, and practices -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Digital Preservation Initiatives and Collaborations -- Introduction -- Collaboration.

Typologies of digital preservation initiatives -- International initiatives and collaborations -- International services -- The Internet Archive -- JSTOR -- DuraSpace -- LOCKSS -- MetaArchive Cooperative -- International alliances -- UNESCO -- PADI -- OCLC -- CAMiLEON -- International Internet Preservation Consortium -- Regional initiatives and collaborations -- Regional services -- NEDLIB -- Regional alliances -- ERPANET -- European Commission-funded projects -- Digital Recordkeeping Initiative -- National initiatives and collaborations -- National services -- AHDS -- Florida Digital Archive -- National alliances -- Digital Curation Centre -- Digital Preservation Coalition -- NDIIPP -- National Digital Stewardship Alliance -- HathiTrust -- Sectoral initiatives and collaborations -- Sectoral services -- Cedars -- Sectoral alliances -- JISC -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10. Challenges for the Future of Digital Preservation -- Introduction -- What have we learned so far? -- Four major challenges -- Challenge 1: managing digital preservation -- Challenge 2: funding digital preservation -- Challenge 3: peopling digital preservation -- Challenge 4: making digital preservation fit -- Research and digital preservation -- Conclusion: the future of digital preservation -- Bibliography -- Index.