* apologies for cross-postings **
## Book announcement
Yannis Tzitzikas and Yannis Marketakis, Cinderella's Stick - A Fairy
Tale for Digital Preservation, Springer 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-98487-2,
pp. 1-249
Cinderella’s Stick is a book aiming to explain through examples the main
problems related to what is called Digital Preservation It is addressed
to those who would like to understand these problems, even if they lack
the technical background.
However, the book also aims to explain (up to some degree) the technical
background, to provide references to the main approaches (or solutions)
that currently exist for tackling these problems, and to provide
questions and exercises appropriate for computer engineers and
scientists.
The structure of the book is modular, with each chapter elaborating with
one or more digital preservation problems and consisting of two parts:
the fairy tale episode, and the technical background (enriched with a
pattern-based description of the problems).
More at the companion website: http://cinderella-stick.com
Links to purchase
- Springer: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319984872
- Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Cinderellas-Stick-Fairytale-Digital-Preservation/dp/331998487X
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