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Contents
Chapter 3 Acquiring, Processing, Classifying,
and Describing Digital Content 27
Planning Workflow 27
Collection Development 29
Acquiring Content 32
Object Requirements 33
Transform 33
Kick the Can down the Road 34
Outsourcing 35
Organizing Content and Assigning Metadata 36
Structuring Content 37
Crowd-Sourcing 40
Resource Identification 41
Setting Up Workflow 44
Batch Processes 44
Rights Management 45
Protecting the Integrity of Resources 46
Chapter 4 Preservation Planning 49
What Is Digital Preservation? 50
Preserving the Content and Context, Not the Medium 52
Why Preservation Doesn’t Happen 56
The Maturity Model 58
Preservation File Formats 59
Cloud-Based Digital Preservation Services 60
Summary 62
Chapter 5 General-Purpose Technologies Useful
for Digital Repositories 65
The Changing Face of Metadata 66
XML in Libraries 67
XHTML 68
XPath 70
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