The Digital Archives Handbook A Guide to Creation, Management, and Preservation

The Digital Archives Handbook provides archivists a roadmap to create and care for digital archives.

Written by archival experts and practitioners, Purcell brings together theoretical and practical approaches to creating, managing, and preserving digital archives.

The first section is focused on processes and practices, including chapters on acquisitions, appraisal, arrangement, description, delivery, preservation, forensics, curation, and intellectual property.

The second section is focused on digital collections and specific environments where archivists are managing digital collections.

These chapters review digital collections in categories including performing arts, oral history, architectural and design records, congressional collections, and email.