Digital Preservation Storage
Learn about Digital Preservation Storage as part of our Digital Preservation White Paper Series.
Storage of digital content underpins the entire endeavor of Digital Preservation. It refers to the writing of digitally encoded data to some form of persistent media such that it can be read back at a later time. Technologies have evolved, media have become faster, smaller and cheaper over time, but the basic acts of reading and writing data to persistent storage media are something that has been part of computing and information technology for as long as these fields have existed.
This does not, however, imply that this is a completely “solved” problem. There are any number of ways that content written to some persistent medium can be lost over time. In this White Paper, we will discuss some of those, and what needs to be done to mitigate these for effective long term Digital Preservation.