digital archives
Online historical collections
Digital archives are collections of historical records, documents, or media preserved and made accessible in electronic form.
The term covers both digitized physical materials—photographs, manuscripts, newspapers scanned for online access—and materials that originated digitally.
Libraries, museums, and governments maintain digital archives; so do individuals preserving family history: I found my grandfather's immigration papers in the national digital archives.
- long-term storageKeeping things for years
- text filesUnformatted digital data storage
- cloud storageOnline data preservation service
- e-booksElectronic publications
- digitizationAnalog-to-electronic transformation
time capsule · data privacy laws · file formats · database management · dead links · emulation · version control · cataloging · accessibility standards · migration · manuscripts · audio recordings · searchable · servers · optical discs · metadata · library · repository
- photo catalogsphoto collections, image databases
- librarylibrarian, book stacks, books, library card, bookshelves
- mediatelevision, mass media, news, broadcasting, video
- librarieslibrarians, public libraries, librarian, public library, library card
- digital contentfiles, blog posts, data, videos, video essays
- digital filesfile, audio file, files, document, backup file
digital archivesfiling cabinets
Furniture for organized documents
card catalogs · film archives · stone tablets · oral tradition · clay tablets