Given the right hardware and software, digital information is easy to create, copy, and
disseminate; however it is very hard to preserve. At present, it is impossible to guarantee the …

Preserving digital information is a difficult and poorly understood problem. The current
inability to accomplish digital preservation is a major impediment to the adoption of digital …

Intended to stimulate discussion rather than present solutions, this report summarizes how
digital technology applies to preservation problems beyond the preservation of print …

National and international publishers have been depositing digital publications at the
National Library of the Netherlands (KB) since 2003. Until recently, most of these …

The 21-member Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information was formed in December
1994 and spent a year studying what is needed to make digital libraries stable, accessible …

There is as yet no viable long-term strategy to ensure that digital information will be readable
in the future. Digital documents are vulnerable to loss via the decay and obsolescence of the …

Maintaining a digital object in a usable state over time is a crucial aspect of digital
preservation. Existing methods of preserving have many drawbacks. This paper describes …

The Library of Congress is drafting a decision-support framework pertaining to the
preservation of digital content. The framework is presented through a Web site that identifies …

Purpose–To describe INFORM, a new methodology for investigating and measuring the risk
factors of digital formats and providing guidelines for preservation action plans …

Purpose–This paper aims to examine the approach to format obsolescence, preparing for
format migration, that has guided most digital preservation work for the last 15 years. It asks …