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Digital preservation: an introduction
The document provides an introduction to digital preservation, including definitions of key terms like preservation, digital preservation, and digital curation. It outlines some of the challenges of digital preservation, such as storage media issues, hardware and software dependence, conceptual problems dealing with digital objects, and issues of scale with large amounts of digital data. It then describes some common digital preservation strategies like technology preservation, technology emulation, information migration, and digital archaeology. The document emphasizes that digital preservation requires a life-cycle management approach.
