{
    "content": "<h1>Digital Heritage<\/h1><p><a href=\"..\/Digital-Heritage\/\">Digital Heritage<\/a> consists of unique resources of human knowledge and expression that are created digitally, or converted into digital form from existing analogue resources. As outlined by <a href=\"..\/UNESCO\/\">UNESCO<\/a> in its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/information-preservation\/digital-heritage\/charter-preservation-digital-heritage\">Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage<\/a>, these materials include texts, databases, still and moving images, audio, graphics, software, and web pages. Unlike physical artifacts, digital materials require active management to survive technological obsolescence and physical decay.<\/p><p>The process of <a href=\"..\/Digital-Preservation\/\">Digital-Preservation<\/a> is central to maintaining these assets. Institutions such as the <a href=\"..\/Library-of-Congress\/\">Library-of-Congress<\/a> and the <a href=\"..\/British-Library\/\">British-Library<\/a> lead global efforts in establishing <a href=\"..\/Metadata-Standards\/\">Metadata-Standards<\/a> and sustainable storage solutions. A primary challenge in this field is the preservation of <a href=\"..\/Born-Digital\/\">Born-Digital<\/a> content, which has no physical counterpart and is highly susceptible to data loss. The <a href=\"..\/Digital-Preservation-Coalition\/\">Digital-Preservation-Coalition<\/a> provides extensive resources on managing these risks, as detailed in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpconline.org\/digipres\/digital-preservation-handbook\">Digital Preservation Handbook<\/a>.<\/p><p>Furthermore, <a href=\"..\/Web-Archiving\/\">Web-Archiving<\/a> has emerged as a critical sub-discipline, with organizations like the <a href=\"..\/Internet-Archive\/\">Internet-Archive<\/a> and the <a href=\"..\/International-Internet-Preservation-Consortium\/\">International-Internet-Preservation-Consortium<\/a> (IIPC) working to capture the ephemeral nature of the World Wide Web. By utilizing the <a href=\"..\/Open-Archival-Information-System\/\">Open-Archival-Information-System<\/a> (OAIS) reference model, heritage professionals can ensure that <a href=\"..\/Cultural-Heritage\/\">Cultural-Heritage<\/a> remains accessible to future researchers and the general public despite the rapid evolution of hardware and software environments.<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"..\/Web-Archiving\/\">Web-Archiving<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"..\/Digital-Curatorship\/\">Digital-Curatorship<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"..\/Cultural-Informatics\/\">Cultural-Informatics<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"..\/Metadata-Standards\/\">Metadata-Standards<\/a><\/li><\/ul>",
    "tags": [
        "digital-heritage",
        "preservation",
        "unesco",
        "archives",
        "born-digital",
        "metadata",
        "cultural-heritage",
        "information-science",
        "digital-preservation",
        "digitization"
    ]
}