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    Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry
    (2020-04) Kirschenbaum, Matthew
    The book industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders in the cultural heritage sector (libraries, archives, and academia) as well as in the industry itself. The report addresses the changing technological and organizational circumstances in the creation and collecting of publishers' archives, with an emphasis on the enumeration of the types and variety of digital assets that may form the primary basis for such archives in the future. It emphasizes the extent to which every book published (not just ebooks as such) is in fact "born-digital," and the implications of this shift for future historical and bibliographical scholarship. It concludes with a set of recommendations.
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    Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use
    (National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities, 2009-05) Kirschenbaum, Matthew; Farr, Erika; Kraus, Kari; Nelson, Naomi; Peters, Catherine Stollar; Redwine, Gabriela; Reside, Doug
    White paper reporting on activity funded by Digital Humanities Initiative Level 1 Start Up funding to support a series of site visits and planning meetings among personnel working with the born-digital components of three significant collections of literary material: the Salman Rushdie papers at Emory University's Woodruff Library, the Michael Joyce Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Deena Larsen Collection at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland.