Digital Preservation

Abstract

Digitization technology offers the facilities to preserve documents and make them available in an easily accessible system. Digital technology and high-speed networks are leading to sweeping changes. In the modern electronic era more & more information is being produced in digital format by two means:- a) Converting the existing materials to digital format and b) Increasingly born in digital format. This paper presents the challenges of digital preservation to browser, preservation policies and Infrastructure requirements for digital preservation, current preservation strategies, limitations, present preservation strategies, advantages & limitation of digital preservation.