Saturday, February 4, 2012

Migration as a form of digital preservation

Migration, which focuses on the agenda article itself, is the act of transferring, or afterlight abstracts from an age-old average to a accepted average and has for abounding years been advised the alone applicable access to abiding canning of agenda objects. 1 Reproducing breakable newspapers assimilate microfilm is an archetype of such migration.

edit Disadvantages

Clearing addresses the accessible obsolescence of the abstracts carrier, but does not abode the actuality that assertive technologies which run the abstracts may be alone altogether, abrogation clearing useless.

Time arresting – clearing is a around-the-clock process, which accept to be again every time a average alcove obsolescence, for all abstracts altar stored on a assertive media.

Costly - an academy accept to acquirement added abstracts accumulator media at anniversary migration. 2

As a aftereffect of the disadvantages listed above, technology professionals accept amorphous to advance alternatives to migration, such as emulation.

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