"Many people believe that what is on the Internet will be around forever. At the same time, warnings of an impending "digital dark age"--Where records of the recent past become completely lost or ...

With the ever-increasing volume and technical complexity of digital records, Concordia University Records Management and Archives (RMA) has created a Digital Preservation Strategy (DPS) in order to ...

Performing backup and restore on digital content does NOT ensure preservation although it may be essential to integrate preservation into a combined strategy of protecting digital assets. As a CIO, do ...

The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N), led by Pratt Institute in collaboration with New York University, has received a $1.28 million grant from the Mellon Foundation for ...

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Pratt Institute $600,000 to support the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N) in collaboration with New York University (NYU). Pratt ...

Academic institutions face the challenge of safeguarding an ever-growing volume and variety of digital assets, ranging from research data and institutional records to e-theses, images and audiovisual ...

During a recent digital preservation committee meeting with my regional consortium, it occurred to me that many librarians are performing this type of preservation without even realizing it. Digital ...

PlayStation's decision to cease physical game disc production by 2028 in favor of digital distribution has caused widespread outrage among gamers, who fear the move threatens media preservation, the ...

The preservation of digital records presents new challenges for archives. Digital storage media are not stable, and digital file formats depend on hardware and software that quickly become obsolete.