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Define: digitization
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The conversion of analogue data or information into a digital form.
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Four threats to digital preservation
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Media decay, format obsolescence, hardware obsolescence, and link rot.
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Why is digitizing an ongoing cost?
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Formats and media keep dying, so the material must be migrated indefinitely or the copy becomes unreadable.
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Why is digitization not neutral?
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What gets scanned first is what later gets found, cited and taught; the unscanned quietly becomes invisible.
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