Table of Contents

Books.Files

• Preface 55
• I. Background: Why Books.Files? 66
• • Dawn of the DAM 66
  • About the Project 99
  • Sidebar: Collecting Born-Digital Material Within Publishers’ Archives: A Curatorial Perspective 1212
• II. Understanding Workflows: How a Book Is Made 1515
• • The Birds and the Bees: Where Do Books Come From? 1515
  • Understanding Workflows 1717
  • Sidebar: Lifecycles of Digital Files and Staff Labor at Ooligan Press in Portland, Oregon 2121
• III. Understanding Assets: File, Version, and Format 2525
• • Files, Flongs, and Films 2525
  • Versions and Formats 2727
  • Sidebar: Going Global: The Supply Chain in Book Publishing 3131
• IV. “They Do Not See the Point of Us”: Academic Interests 3333
• • The Cloud Atlas Conundrum 3333
  • Academic Interests 3434
  • Sidebar: User Experience and Access to Born digital Data Produced by Publishers: The Case of Carcanet Press 3838
  • Sidebar: Analyzing E-books in the Age of Digital Locks: Challenges and Strategies 4040
  • V. An Archive of the Present: Some Recommendations 4343
  • • Archives of the Past and the Present 4343
    • Recommendations 4545
    • Sidebar: Paper, Ink, Water: Visiting a Print Production Facility 4747
  • Acknowledgments 4949
  • • About the Investigators 4949
    • Convening Participants 5050
    • Works Cited and Further Reading 5151