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Digital preservation.

Here are entered works on the preservation of digital materials. Works on transferring library materials to a digital format are entered under Library materials -- Digitization. Works on transferring archival materials to a digital format are entered under Archival materials -- Digitization. Works on transferring museum objects to a digital format are entered under Museum objects -- Digitization.

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• Preservation of materials
• Computer files
• Digital media

• Digital preservation -- Bibliography
• Digital preservation -- Congresses
• Digital preservation -- Environmental aspects
• Digital preservation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Digital preservation -- Law and legislation
• Digital preservation -- Periodicals
• Digital preservation -- Research
• Digital preservation -- United States
• Copyright and digital preservation
• Web archiving

• Computer files -- Conservation and restoration
• Digital curation
• Digital media -- Conservation and restoration
• Digital media -- Preservation
• Electronic preservation
• Preservation of digital information

• The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation (prepublication draft, 2017), by Trevor Owens (PDF with commentary at LISSA)
• Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving (2013), ed. by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.) (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)
• A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation (Atlanta: Educopia Institute, 2010), ed. by Katherine Skinner and Matt Schultz (PDF with commentary at metaarchive.org)
• Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information (final report of the BRTF; 2010), by Abby Smith Rumsey and Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (PDF at sdsc.edu)
• Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation (interim report of the BRTF; 2008), by Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (PDF at sdsc.edu)
• Digital Preservation and Permanent Access to Scientific Information: The State of the Practice (2004), by Gail M. Hodge and Evelyn Frangakis (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice (2000), by Alan S. Morrison, Michael Popham, and Karen Wikander (HTML in the UK)
• Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access (2000), ed. by Maxine K. Sitts (PDF at nedcc.org)
• PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata (version 2.1 or later, with supplementary material; v2.1 was published 2011) (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
• Understanding PREMIS (c2009), by Priscilla Caplan (PDF at loc.gov)
• Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (c2008), ed. by Katherine Skinner and Martin Halbert (PDF with commentary at unt.edu)
• Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards (second edition, 2006), by Franziska S. Frey and James M. Reilly (PDF at imagepermanenceinstitute.org)
• After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), by Trevor Owens (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2023), by Anne Baillot (PDF files with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Maja Kominko (multiple formats with audio and commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper (2008), by Oya Y. Rieger (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision (London: JISC Collections, 2007), ed. by Leona Carpenter and Caren Milloy (PDF files with commentary at JISC Collections)
• Preserving Government Information: Past, Present and Future (San Diego and San Francisco: FreeGovInfo Press, 2025), by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs (PDF and Epub with commentary at freegovinfo.info)
• Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, and the Education of a New Generation of Researchers (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2015), ed. by Jake Carlson and Lisa Johnston (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Digitization in the Real World: Lessons Learned From Small and Medium-Sized Digitization Projects (New York: Metropolitan New York Library Council, c2010), ed. by Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma (multiple formats at archive.org)
• E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2006), by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, and Ellie L. Buckley (PDF at clir.org)
• The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials, by University of Glasgow Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute and National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (HTML at NYU)
• Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, c2000), ed. by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Digital Libraries: A Vision for the 21st Century: A Festschrift in Honor of Wendy Lougee on the Occasion of Her Departure From the University of Michigan, ed. by Patricia Hodges, Mark Sandler, Maria Bonn, and W. John Price-Wilkin (HTML at Michigan)

• Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography (current and archived versions, 2010-2011), by Charles W. Bailey (HTML with commentary at digital-scholarship.com)

• Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (Atlanta: Educopia Institution Publications, c2012), by Nancy Y. McGovern (PDF at educopia.org)
• The State of Digital Preservation: An International Perspective (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2002) (PDF at clir.org)

• It's About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation (2003) (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)

• From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2023), by Anne Baillot (PDF files with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), ed. by Jody Butterworth, Andrew Pearson, Patrick Sutherland, and Adam Farquhar (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Digital Preservation Handbook (revised electronic edition), by Digital Preservation Coalition (illustrated HTML with commentary at dpconline.org)

• International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (updated version, September 2008), by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.), Joint Information Systems Committee, OAK Law Project, and Stichting SURF (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)

• Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2009), by June M. Besek (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2005), by June M. Besek (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• International Journal of Digital Curation (2006-) (full serial archives)
• Archival Practice (2014-) (full serial archives)
• CLIR Issues (full serial archives)

• Preserving Our Digital Heritage: Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (2002), by Library of Congress
  • Part 1: PDF at digitalpreservation.gov
  • Part 2: PDF at digitalpreservation.gov
• A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (third edition, 2007), by National Information Standards Organization (U.S.) (HTML with commentary at niso.org)
• Preserving Digital Information, by Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information (HTML at rlg.org)

• Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age (2013), by National Academy of Public Administration (PDF with commentary at napawash.org)

• Digitization in the Real World: Lessons Learned From Small and Medium-Sized Digitization Projects (New York: Metropolitan New York Library Council, c2010), ed. by Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present (London: UCL Press, c2017), ed. by Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder (PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press)
• Archiving Websites: General Considerations and Strategies (2005), by Niels Brügger (PDF in Denmark)
• Digitization in the Real World: Lessons Learned From Small and Medium-Sized Digitization Projects (New York: Metropolitan New York Library Council, c2010), ed. by Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2024), by Ian Milligan (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), by Trevor Owens (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Electronic Evidence (fourth edition; London: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2017), ed. by Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Introduction to Computer Programming (Tulsa, OK and Burlington, ON: Hayes, c1982), by Brian Reffin Smith, ed. by Lisa Watts, illust. by Graham Round and Martin Newton (PDF at Usborne and Google)
• Compute!'s Second Book of Atari (1982) (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• There is No Software, There are Just Services (Lüneberg: Meson Press, 2015), ed. by Irina Kaldrack and Martina Leeker (PDF with commentary at meson.press)
• Release 1.0 (1983-2006), ed. by Esther Dyson (full serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.