eBook Archiving: A Toolkit for Small Publishers
Introduction
This toolkit is intended to provide an overview and guidance for the archiving and preservation o...
What is a ‘simple’ ebook?
Defining an ebook is not easy - and indeed an important part of the COPIM and OBF projects has be...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: Why archive?
The first question for a publisher (or author) to address in developing an archiving strategy is:...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: What content to archive?
It seems unlikely that it is either necessary or feasible to archive every aspect of a publicatio...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: What formats to archive?
Archiving something is clearly better than not archiving at all, so a starting point is to archiv...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: What metadata to archive?
Metadata is critical for the discovery and effective dissemination of books. Just putting somethi...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: Archiving outbound links?
As part of the OBF project the Garth Stewart at the Digital Preservation Coalition undertook a re...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: Where to Archive content?
As part of the work undertaken within the OBF project we have identified many alternative archivi...
A very simple open archiving strategy for a small publisher
Create an information pack for authors - help them to identify the material most critical for a...