Part 1. Problem Identification

We are living in a digital world today. Most of the things created nowadays are in digital form. Digital form objects had brought in benefits to the people especially its convenient accessibility. Initially, digital materials should be preserved to ensure the continued access of it. However, digital preservation will be facing challenges in the future, and more importantly, it is facing now. Thus, digital heritage would not be able to preserve successfully if the challenges could not be resolved.

Easy internet access presumes that everyone can capture, access, and use the world’s accumulated digital information. People, businesses, institutions, and governments invest time and effort to create digital information for instantaneous access by anyone.

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the continued preservation and accessibility of digital information generated in this context of rapid technological advances.

People would have think that what is so important about digital preservation. To get a sense of what’s at stake from a historical perspective, consider this cursory sampling of irretrievable information from the past 50 years: 50% (approximately 25,000) of the films produced in the 1940s, most TV interviews, the first e-mail sent in 1964.