This page is a timeline of digital preservation and Web archiving. It covers various aspects of saving and preserving digital data, whether they are born-digital or not.
Trends
Digital preservation encompasses a variety of efforts and technologies, so its history can be viewed through various trends in these separate efforts:
- File systems with built-in fault-tolerance
- Various changes in the physical storage used
- On-demand archiving services
- URL shortening services
- Various episodes of major archival work, sometimes as a result of services shutting down
- Efforts at converting physical/analog information to more modern digital media, file formats, and storage
Timeline
See also
References