Today is World Digital Preservation Day and time for my annual reminder (with a new graphic) that #Digitisation is not #DigitalPreservation. A thread 1/5 #WDPD2022 
Regardless of whether a file is created by digitising a physical item or originally created in a digital format (#borndigital), it requires active management over time to ensure continued access - it requires digital preservation 2/5
#DigiPres and #Digitization are closley entwined, with good practice to create digitised files in uncompressed, open file formats suitable for long-term preservation 3/5
Digital preservation activities include characterisation (file format identification, metadata extraction), managing storage (fixity, multiple copies, monitoring), preservation actions (emulation, file format migration), and much more dpconline.org/handbook 4/5
Digitisation is not digital preservation. Digitisation NEEDS digital preservation. 5/5 #WDPD2022
Bonus tweet/fun fact: My illustration is inaccurate. The camera cannot connect directly to that computer because the Apple PowerBook 1400c does not have any USB ports :). Image is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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