Translations:Digitization, Preservation and Ingest/139/en

For hardware and software, regardless of the type of material (documents, photographs, video, or other), the requirement will be to provide digital surrogates of desired quality in adequate formats and capture the selected metadata. In terms of storage media, the most important aspects to be considered are its reliability (resilience to data loss), durability (usability over a longer time period), and scalability (potential to expand the data storage space as required).