Digital preservation is the management of digital information over time. Digital preservation is defined as: long-term, error-free storage of digital information, with means for retrieval and interpretation, for the entire time span the information is required for. [Source: Wikipedia]
Digital preservation research focuses on developing technologies, systems and tools for safeguarding digital content. The objective is to preserve digital content in a more effective and cost-efficient manner while protecting its authenticity and integrity, significantly reducing the loss of irreplaceable information, and ensuring it may be reused in the future. (Source: Cordis)
Digital Preservation is addressed in the ICT work programme 2011/12 (p.59) under the following challenges/objectives:
> Challenge 4: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
