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1. Digital Preservation

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   Digital preservation refers to the set of organizational strategies, technical activities, and policy decisions designed to ensure that digital objects remain accessible, authentic, and usable over time. Unlike traditional archival science, which primarily contends with physical decay of media like parchment or paper, digital preservation addresses the ephemeral nature of software, hardware, and file formats, alongside the psychological burden of information overload that causes humans to mentally discard data deemed non-essential, a process known as [cognitive a…