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Term | records preservation

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  • n., The whole of the principles, policies, rules and strategies that controls the physical and technological stabilization and protection of the intellectual form of acquired records intended for their continuing, enduring, stable, lasting, uninterrupted and unbroken chain of preservation, without a foreseeable end. Syn.: archival preservation; permanent preservation. See also: digital preservation; persistent object preservation; preservation.