The politics of digital heritage preservation, including selection, cataloging, and metadata, have significant political consequences and impact access to the global human record.

Digital History and the Politics of Digitization

Digitization of scientific archives offers significant possibilities for future archival research and documentation, but historians must be aware of its scope, limitations, and potential loss of physical aspects.

Scientific Archives in the Age of Digitization

UK public libraries and archives have increased access through digitization, but limited original material preservation, and funding disparities exist between digitization and traditional preservation.

Digitization and preservation in public libraries and archives

Archaeology Data Service and the European ARENA project are addressing the digital preservation and access crisis in Europe, promoting reuse and promoting archival standards.

Digital preservation and access

Digital preservation in cultural heritage institutions faces challenges such as underdeveloped policies, deteriorating archives, and technological obsolescence.

Challenges of digital preservation for cultural heritage institutions

Digital technologies in archival research and education enhance document use, preservation, and public appreciation of documentary heritage.

Digital technologies in modern historical and archival research and education

Digital technology, such as metadata collection and digital cultural products, significantly improves public access to cultural heritage in Italy's public historical archives.

Technology and Public Access to Cultural Heritage: The Italian Experience on ICT for Public Historical Archives

Digitization of cultural artifacts can improve security, accessibility, and original orientation, potentially enhancing future conservation efforts.

Rich Cultural Traditions to Be Preserved Through Digitization- A Task of Great Responsibility

Digital archive preservation is crucial for maintaining and storing important information and data, but research on data preservation, long-term preservation, digital archives, and web archives is needed for optimal access and processing.

Preservation of Digital Archives

Digital archives and historical data offer transformative opportunities for humanities research, but their use and impact on'memory' must be questioned and contextualized.

The Digital Archive and the Politics of Digitization

Artificial intelligence may help organize historic documents and preserve context, potentially improving preservation and access for researchers.

Artificial Intelligence and the Preservation of Historic Documents

The Punjab Digital Library effectively preserves Punjab's heritage by digitizing over 2.5 million folios of documents, making them accessible and immortal for future generations.

Conservation and Preservation of Archives: A Case Study of Punjab Digital Library

Digital preservation in libraries, archives, and museums requires careful planning and management, with the Digital Preservation Triad concept as a guide.

Digital Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Digital archiving presents both benefits and challenges in preserving cultural memories, as it requires a complex decision-making process to choose content, media, and biases for a global time capsule.

Constructing a global time capsule : Challenges in the digital preservation of society's cultural memory archive

Digitization of film heritage has the potential to enable larger access and preservation, but technological, legal, financial, and curatorial obstacles must be addressed to fully realize its potential.

Film Preservation in the Digital Era: Pitfalls and Potentials

Digital preservation metadata is crucial for archives, as it helps manage digitized objects from analog originals and ensures their preservation in case of corruption.

Digital Preservation Metadata Practice for Archives

Digital archives need urgent preservation to ensure their usefulness for future generations, considering storage media, access technology, and intellectual preservation.

Urgency Preservation of Digital Archives

AI-assisted digitisation of historical documents can achieve accurate transcription with a Character Error Rate (CER) below 10% using just a few hundred labelled text lines.

AI-ASSISTED DIGITALISATION OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

This special issue highlights the need for digital preservation and access to historical documents, highlighting the need for novel and robust methods to preserve and analyze these valuable resources.

Special issue on the analysis of historical documents

This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to business archives, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a well-functioning service and fostering global collaboration.

Digital preservation for libraries, archives, and museums

What is the impact of digitalization on the preservation and access to historical archives?

These studies suggest that digitalization enhances access to historical archives and offers new research opportunities, but also presents challenges in preservation, policy development, and potential loss of physical aspects.