Long‐term preservation of digital humanities scholarship

Abstract

Purpose

To inform digital humanists about digital preservation metadata requirements and to inform digital librarians about the dynamic, multimedia content of digital humanities research and teaching resources that needs to be addressed by digital preservation initiatives.

Design/methodology/approach

Literature‐based review of the issues.

Findings

Tools to facilitate automatic and semi‐automatic capture, collection, and creation of digital preservation metadata are crucially needed to ensure long‐term preservation of digital humanities scholarship.

Practical implications

Without tools to capture and create the majority of the metadata recommended to ensure long‐term preservation of and access to digital resources, the born‐digital multimedia resources created by humanities scholars are in danger of becoming unusable in the long term, nullifying years of scholarship and millions of dollars of investment by scholars, institutions, and funding organizations.

Originality/value

Provides current information for humanities scholars and librarians who must work in tandem to ensure long‐term preservation of digital humanities scholarship.

Citation

Cantara, L. (2006), "Long‐term preservation of digital humanities scholarship", OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, Vol. 22 No. 1, pp. 38-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650750610640793