Preservation

Preservation

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An online article that covers the main focuses on what preservation is in terms of digital archiving and what significance in holds within the digital archiving community, being staple goal throughout the community. It also covers topics such as challenges that preservation faces, as well as a brief discussion on what it means to archive information. The section discusses the major themes of digital archiving as a whole. bringing up the concept of how digital archiving strives to make resources permanent and available for future use, preventing them from being lost. As such, this section of the book brings up the main points that digital archiving brings as a whole, talking about its purpose and why it is important to improve our methods of preservation. The section also briefly goes over the meaning of archiving is, how it goes together with the term preservation, but at the same time means something slightly different in the work field of archiving. The source goes into the topic of the challenges within preservation and arching, talking about how materials are at risk of being lost due to their fragile state, which strengthens the point that it is necessary to improve upon our methods of preservation.

Smith, Abby

2004

Gonzalez, Sean

Book/eBook

9781119163947

Smith, Abby. "Preservation" A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/