Monday, July 8, 2013

Week 6: Definition of Digital Preservation

Digital Preservation:

- Series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary. (Digital Preservation Coalition. 2008)

- Planning, resource allocation, and application of preservation methods and technologies to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable.

- Regardless of the challenges of media failure and technological change.

- Accurate rendering of authenticated content over time. (Evans, Mark; Carter, Laura. 2008)

- Long-term preservation
Continued access to digital materials, or at least to the information contained in them, indefinitely.

- Medium-term preservation
Continued access to digital materials beyond changes in technology for a defined period of time but not indefinitely.

- Short-term preservation
Access to digital materials either for a defined period of time while use is predicted but which does not extend beyond the foreseeable future and until it becomes inaccessible because of changes in technology.

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