Translations:Introduction/14/en

Put plainly, unless the gathered records of crimes and human rights abuses (physical and digital alike) are preserved in a planned, organized, and sustainable digital form and system, their immediate usability will be very limited – and in the long term they are unlikely to be preserved, let alone leveraged to fully serve their purpose in the future. This is why the need for digital archiving goes to the very core of the hard, painstaking work of numerous organizations worldwide that record and safeguard material on human rights violations.

And this is why this manual was created: to guide the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) through this process and assist them in creating and developing their own digital archives.