Translations:Value of Digital Archiving for Civil Society Organizations/9/en

Creating a digital archive can ensure long-term preservation of the collected material, especially if it might be at risk. By digitizing physical collections, we create copies that can be sustainably preserved independently of the original item and its condition. Moreover, for digitized physical items and born-digital files, creating a digital archive allows us to ensure sufficient backup copies of the archival material—and that they are safely stored and easily located to ensure their security and resilience. In this way, digital archiving allows us to retrieve the archive’s content, even when the material in the primary collection has been lost, corrupted, or destroyed.