Online article dealing with the preservation of digital legal materials written by Sarah Rhodes who is the digital collections librarian at the Georgetown Law Library in Washington, D.C. and a project coordinator for The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive. The article was published on LLRX.com in February 2010. The author looks at the issues surrounding the selection of materials to be preserved, the software requirements, the standards and protocols for digital preservation software and services and financial considerations. There is also a section looking at how academic law libraries are taking responsibility for the digital preservation of their law reviews. The experiences of various US law libraries are examined and links are given to digital preservation projects, repositories and standards.
Preserving born-digital legal materials - where to start?
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