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1. Digital Preservation

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   Digital preservation activities are integrated throughout the entire life cycle of a digital object, not merely applied as a final step. This continuum is often modeled in distinct, though overlapping, stages:
   Creation/Ingest: Establishing clear provenance and documenting initial descriptive, structural, and administrative metadata.
   Storage and Maintenance: Implementing redundant storage systems and executing periodic fixity checks to ensure data integrity.
   Migration/Transformation: Actively converting file formats to newer, more stable…