Long Term Preservation
1 Definition
The act of maintaining information in a correct and independently understandable form over the long term.
Notes
- Long term refers to a period of time long enough to be concerned with the impact which changing technologies, including support for media and data formats, and changing user communities will have on the information being held in a repository.
- See also preservation.
Examples
Sources
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Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), Recommended Practice CCSDS 650.0-M-2, Magenta Book 2012 ; CEOS EO Data Stewardship Glossary
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NESDIS Data Management Lexicon and Related Terms
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