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digital preservation In library and archival science, digital preservation is a formal endeavor to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable. It involves planning, resource allocation, and application of preservation methods and ...
and
Web archiving Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web to ensure the information is preserved in an archive for future researchers, historians, and the public. Web archivists typically employ web crawlers for automated captur ...
. It covers various aspects of saving and preserving digital data, whether they are
born-digital The term born-digital refers to materials that originate in a digital form.NDIIPP"Preserving Digital Culture,"Library of Congress. This is in contrast to digital reformatting, through which analog materials become digital, as in the case of fil ...
or not.


Trends

Digital preservation encompasses a variety of efforts and technologies, so its history can be viewed through various trends in these separate efforts: * File systems with built-in fault-tolerance * Various changes in the physical storage used * On-demand archiving services * URL shortening services * Various episodes of major archival work, sometimes as a result of services shutting down * Efforts at converting physical/analog information to more modern digital media, file formats, and storage


Timeline


See also

*
List of digital preservation initiatives This is a list of digital preservation initiatives aimed at the digitisation of previously existing media or preserve existing digital archives. * ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project, an initiative dedicated on the preservation of thousands of Filip ...
* List of Web archiving initiatives


References

{{DigitalPreservation Digital preservation
Digital preservation In library and archival science, digital preservation is a formal endeavor to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable. It involves planning, resource allocation, and application of preservation methods and ...