This document provides an introduction to digital preservation. It discusses challenges such as hardware and software obsolescence, storage media decay, and loss of information over time. Standards like the UNESCO Charter on Digital Preservation are mentioned, which emphasize the importance of preserving digital heritage. The heterogeneity of digital materials, formats, and metadata are issues that must be addressed. Approaches to preservation like migration, emulation, and normalization are outlined. The importance of preservation policies, metadata, tools, legal issues, and trusted repositories are also summarized.

1. Digital Preservation – An Introduction DPE/Planets/nestor training event October, 1st- 5th 2007 Vilnius, Lithuania Stefan Strathmann Göttingen State and University Library nestor - Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources

6. Example – Loss of Information Acrobat 5 Acrobat 7

19. producer consumer SIP DIP Access Archival storage AIP AIP Administration Preservation Planning SIP AIP DIP Submission Information Package Archival Information Package Dissemination Information Package Ingest Data management OAIS Model – Example for a Standard

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