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Digital Archiving Must Be Sustainable

Archiving work needs to be a sustainable practice. Even if no new items are being added to the archive, Digital Archives Require Maintenance, and because Digital Objects Degrade Faster Than Physical Objects this maintenance must be performed or the archive may be lost in a relatively short period of time.

  1. Edward M. Corrado and Heather Moulaison Sandy. Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, & Museums. 2017.