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Term | records preservation strategy

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  • n., A coherent set of objectives and methods for protecting and maintaining (i.e., safeguarding authenticity and ensuring accessibility of) digital components and related information of acquired records over time, and for reproducing the related authentic records and/or archival aggregations. Syn.: preservation strategy; permanent preservation strategy. See also: backward compatibility; conversion; data restoration; emulation; encapsulation; maintenance strategy; normalization; persistent object preservation; software re-engineering; technology preservation.