"Digital preservation builds on a base level of disaster recovery, extending the scope of concern into the distant future. Digital preservation goes beyond addressing problems with restoring data to its current state to creating processes and infrastructure capable of carrying data forward hundreds of years, assuming that any formats, media, and equipment in place today will be obsolete and unsupported. The challenges of this long-term objective include not only creating highly resilient storage architectures but also maintaining metadata to support the re-creation of the content in future formats. Digital preservation includes an organizational strategic commitment to the forward migration of data through the inevitable cycles of technology. While disaster recovery ensures that a given organization can deal with any given failure, digital preservation also addresses the possibility of widespread and enduring failures, including disasters with extensive geographic reach and disruptions in communications that might endure for days, weeks, or years. The Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model provides some guidance for the design of repositories for digital preservation."
From Marshall Breeding, "From disaster recovery to digital preservation." Computers in Libraries 32 (May 2012): 22.
From Marshall Breeding, "From disaster recovery to digital preservation." Computers in Libraries 32 (May 2012): 22.
For additional information, please see the FLVC Digital Preservation Libguide: https://flvc.libguides.com/digital-preservation