Preserving Complex Digital Objects addresses how complex digital objects - those made by combining more than one discrete digital object - can be successfully preserved for long-term access and usability. More difficult than preserving simple digital objects, this area has received less research attention, despite the evident need for robust methods becoming critical for business, leisure and heritage activities alike. The book is a series of essays recording the input to the project Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) which ran from February 2011 to March 2012. Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the project aimed to "share and thereby extend the body of knowledge" on the preservation of complex digital objects through a series of three symposia that would "present material of great technological and organisational complexity in a lucid, cogent, relevant and approachable manner" (POCOS, 2012). The project symposia took place in June 2011, October 2011 and January 2012, with each focussing on a different type of born-digital content: visualisations and simulations, software art and gaming environments and virtual worlds.
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