Archival quality and long-term preservation: A research framework for validating the usefulness of digital surrogates

Archival Science

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 293-309

  Conway, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Archival quality; Error measurement; HathiTrust; Information quality; Large scale digitization; Preservation repositories

Indexed keywords

EID: 81955162881     PISSN: 13890166     EISSN: 15737519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10502-011-9155-0     Document Type: Article

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