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Migration of Data, Software, and Storage Media is an essential component of active maintenance of a digital archive, as it allows us to preserve our archival data by migrating it to new formats, software, or storage media. Migration needs to be performed timely, in a systematic and carefully planned way, following clear rules and including the set of preservation actions—checkups of fixity, validity, and quality assurance—as a mandatory step both before and after the actual transfer of files.