Digital preservation: Organizational commitment, archival stability, and technological continuity
The archives of e-culture, e-government, e-learning, and e-business have grown by leaps and bounds worldwide during the last several years. Although the IT industry has invested significant time and effort to create and maintain those archives, IT professionals do not have the ability to make all digital records generated by the processes available across generations of information technology, making them accessible with future technology and enabling people to determine whether they are authentic and reliable. This is a very serious problem-called digital preservation-for which no solutions have yet been devised. This article discusses practical technologies needed for digital preservation to succeed, and describes a general framework of the life cycle of information to address this important problem so that IT professionals may find reasonable ways to preserve digital records that can be analyzed and evaluated in quantitative measures and incremental manners.
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