New Challenges For The Archiving Of Digital Writing

New Challenges For The Archiving Of Digital Writing

Web archiving

This article focuses on the new challenges that have surfaced for the archiving of digital writing besides the already present challenge of the constant changing software and what strategies to use to conquer those challenges. Some strategies include microfilming born-digital media or the preservation of the plainest possible digital formats that still comprise the inherent values of the original such as transcoding the text files into American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), or the Portable Document Format (PDF). Another possible strategy is the conservation through replication of the original software and hardware and environment. This article greatly emphasizes on the backup of digital copies through replication, but more specifically through emulation--the imitation of obsolete hardware.

Zimmermann, Heiko

Clcweb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A Wwweb Journal

2014

Polk, Victoria

©Purdue University

Journal Article

Zimmermann, Heiko. "New Challenges For The Archiving Of Digital Writing." Clcweb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A Wwweb Journal 16.5 (2014): 1-10. Web. 11 May 2015.