data preservation
Keeping records intact
Data preservation is the practice of maintaining information in usable form over time, protecting it from loss, corruption, or obsolescence.
The term appears most often in contexts involving digital archives, libraries, and institutional records: The museum prioritizes data preservation for its historical collections.
Challenges include format migration as technologies change and ensuring long-term accessibility.
- magnetic tapeCoated strip storing data
- backup tapesDuplicate data on magnetic media
- cold storageRefrigerated preservation space
- retention schedulesWhen to discard documents
- paper trailDocumentary evidence chain
optical discs · solid-state drives · audit trails · copyright laws · firewalls · time capsule · search algorithms · microfilm · checksums · user interfaces · file formats · disaster recovery · cloud storage · cloud storage
- e-discoveryESI, production, processing, collection, predictive coding
- legal techlegal research, e-discovery, legal search, LexisNexis, e-filing
- web archivesWayback Machine, snapshots, crawlers, crawling, crawls
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