digital archiving
Saving files permanently
Digital archiving is the practice of preserving electronic files, documents, or media for long-term access.
It involves converting physical materials to digital formats, organizing metadata, and maintaining storage systems against technological obsolescence: The library's digital archiving project saved thousands of deteriorating photographs.
Unlike simple backup, archiving emphasizes permanent preservation and future accessibility.
- emulationCopying to rival
- cloud storageOnline data preservation service
- backupStored duplicate for recovery
- data migrationMoving stored information elsewhere
- repositoryPlace for storing things
obsolescence · thesauri · copyright law · optical discs · disaster recovery · Wayback Machine · web scraping · encryption · access rights · open access · file format · scanning · version control · digitization · TIFF · collection · curator · PDF
digital archivingpaper filing
Organizing physical records systematically
analog storage · filing cabinets · card catalogs · vinyl records · film archives
digital archivinglive data
live streaming · real-time data · disappearing messages · real-time processing · volatile memory