CONSERVATION
We manage, preserve and enable access to our collections in both physical and digital format
Italian Army Canteen M75
What is Digital Preservation?
Digital Preservation has two key elements:
- The protection of a digital file from loss or degradation
- Ensuring the information contained within the file remains accessible by the intended audience with the tools they might reasonably be expected to have available to them. This usually means migrating information from obsolete file formats to a current format.
- Records Management and Archives have traditionally managed the physical artefacts in their collections, and more recently digital facsimiles have been used to provide easier and wider access to their collections.
- The physical items remain available to be copied again, should the digital facsimile become corrupt. As technology has improved, early digital facsimiles have been replaced with higher resolution files that sometimes reveal more detailed information than the original itself e.g. faint markings, pencil notations, etc. This means that occasionally if the original artefacts are too damaged or are too costly to store, then the high res digital file becomes the Archival Master.
- In recent decades, more and more content has been generated digitally whether it is in the form of documents, emails, spreadsheets, databases or other file types. This Digitally Born content may never be reproduced in a physical form, however the need to preserve these files as records for an organisation remains the same as for the physical objects.
- Digital files can be subject to degradation through loss or corruption (bit rot), so the digital files need to be stored in a secure environment where they can be counted and assessed, and where digital conservation and preservation processes can be applied where necessary.
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