Leaflet on digital resources

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Leaflet on digital resources

A new information leaflet from Arts and Humanities Data Service, Creating a Viable Scholarly Data Resource,is now available on the AHDS Web site: http://ahds.ac.uk/deposit/viable.html

This leaflet is intended to inform researchers and teachers about steps they can take to ensure that digital resources they create today are accessible to them, and possibly to others in future despite numerous and unpredictable changes in computer technologies.

The good practices recommended in these pages are generic and as such intended for application to digital resources of any type (text, database, image, sound, multimedia, etc.) and from any discipline (linguistics, visual arts, music, history, philosophy,archaeology). Signposting to more detailed advice from AHDS Service Providers about applications as appropriate to particular data types and subjects, and to particular computer applications, is provided in the appendix.

For more information contact: Neil Beagrie, Collections and Standards Officer, Arts and Humanities Data Service,King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS. E-mail: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk