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Why Digital Preservation Is Important For Everyone
Check out a short video about the basics of digital preservation.
How to Preserve Your Own Digital Materials
Our photo albums, letters, home movies and paper documents are a vital link to the past. Personal information we create today has the same value. The only difference is that much of it is now digital.
Chances are that you want to keep some digital photos, e-mail, and other files so that you—and your family—can look at them in the future. But preserving digital information is a new concept that most people have little experience with.
Ensure that your digital materials last a lifetime by taking steps to preserve them:
This site provides some tips to help make your personal "born digital" information last. The guidance is basic and is meant to be a place to get started. You may want to get additional details about working with specific kinds of digital content.
Download Personal Archiving Brochure (PDF, 1.7 mb)
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Watch "Why Digital Preservation is Important for Everyone"
This short video explores how digital content – unlike content on traditional media – depends on technology to make it available.
Take the quiz
Learn interesting facts! Did you know that digital materials can be more difficult to preserve than physical materials?
"Preserving Digital Culture" Presentation
An interactive slideshow about digital heritage and the importance of digital preservation.
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