Abstract
There are some obvious threats to the preservation of digitally encoded information. One is what one might call “bit rot” i.e. the deterioration in our ability to read the bits in which the information is encoded. While this is fundamental, nevertheless there are an increasing number of ways to overcome this problem, the simplest of which is replication of the bits i.e. making multiple copies.
Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.
(Marcus Aurelius)
We indicated in the Introduction some of the things we need to be worried about. In this chapter we look at these in more detail, supported by information about what others worry about.
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Giaretta, D. (2011). Threats to Digital Preservation and Possible Solutions. In: Advanced Digital Preservation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16809-3_5
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