Abstract
We live in a digital world. Everyone nowadays works and communicates using computers. We communicate digitally using e-mails and voice platforms, watch photographs in digital form, use computers for complex computations and experiments. Moreover information that previously existed in analogue form (i.e. in paper) is now digitized. The amount of digital objects that libraries and archives maintain constantly increases. It is therefore urgent to ensure that these digital objects will remain functional, usable and intelligible in the future. But what should we preserve and how? To address this question we first summarise the discussion in previous Chapters about what a digital object is.
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The property S21 was derivation source for that is used in the “provenance path” is a reverse property of the property S21 used as derivation source that is shown in Fig. 8.15 These properties have the same interpretation but inverse domain and range.
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Giaretta, D. (2011). Preservation of Intelligibility of Digital Objects. In: Advanced Digital Preservation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16809-3_8
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