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Timeline of digital preservation

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