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Digital preservation consists of the processes aimed at ensuring the contin-ued accessibility of digital materials. ... To achieve this requires digital objects to be understood and managed at four levels: as physical phenomena; as logical encodings; as conceptual objects that have meaning to humans; and as sets of essential elements that must be preserved in order to offer fu-ture users the essence of [each] object.
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(2007). State of the Art. In: Preserving Digital Information. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37887-7_1
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