The Importance Of Digital Preservation

According to Archives and the Digital Library by William E.Landis (2006), digital preservation can be defined as the managed activities for the long term used and for the continued accessibility of the document contents through time and the changing of the technology. Digital information are need to be archived and preserved to ensure that the information is still can be used for the future and the long term needs of society. According to John Feather (1991), preserving digital information is crucial to ensure that the information is survives in usable form for as long as it is wanted. The examples of the digital information are ranging from the text, image, audio and also video. The digital information is very easily damaged because it’s

When the media are obsolete, the content on media is no longer in use. Nowadays, the innovation of the hardware, software, and storage are increase and changing. For examples, devices, processes, and storing information are being replaced with the new technology and the inventions. The records that are created in the digital form are converted retrospectively from paper or microfilm to digital form are similar with vulnerable to the technological obsolescence. The obsolescence also can occur with the storing of the media. It can make the media or format cannot be recover and difficult to read. Other than that, hacking and sabotage is also the reason of the loss of the digital information. In the generation nowadays, people have ability and skills to hacking and sabotage the information in the digital form. They know how to corrupt the file, copying the files, and hacking the digital form information through computer by computers. This is can make the information may not fully protected and may be loss. The data redundancy is also the reason the data might be lost. You must make sure there are many cop of the information. It can make the computer are crashing and the information are

The loss of the software that interprets the store information can affect the ability to read the media readers because not supported. The contents of format not supported are also the reason information may be loss. Sometimes, the new devices or technology cannot read the content. For examples, open office cannot read the PDF format. Other than that, the natural disaster and human error are also the reason of the loss of digital information. Sometimes, people are not made a backup for their digital information. So, when the computer is infected by virus, they cannot retrieve the file and all the content will be missing and loss. The example of human mistake is also accidental deletion which is they was accidently deleted the important file and they cannot recover the