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		<title>Typical Digital Preservation Inputs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital preservation is a great way to take analog information and transform it into easily storable digital information.  Doing this will make it easier for others to access that information as well as preserve it for future generations long after the originals have ceased to be functional for viewing. One of the main strengths of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Digital preservation is a great   way to take analog information and transform it into easily storable  digital information.  Doing this will make it easier for others to  access  that information as well as preserve it for future generations long  after the originals have ceased to be functional for viewing. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">One of the main strengths of  digital preservation is how diverse it is in terms of what you can  actually  store.  It started out with books and text-based objects a couple of  decades ago, but nowadays you can pretty much store anything you want  in digital format for later use. <span id="more-9"></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Images are digitally preserved  all the time.  Photographs that were taken with typical optical film  cameras can be scanned into a digital format like JPEG or BMP.  Diagrams   can be scanned in exactly the same method.  The average basic household  scanner can be purchased today for less than $50 in some cases, allowing   just about anyone with important pictures they’d like to back up to  actually digitally preserve those pictures. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Even multiple pages can be  digitally preserved over the course of a short period of time.  Typical  digital preservation inputs can now actually mean scores of different  books available in digital format.  If you doubt this, all you have to  do is take a quick look at Google Books and you will quickly see that  even books that are centuries old have been preserved in digital  format.   Other online ventures like the free Project Gutenberg have also greatly  advanced the lines of digital preservation, taking many rarely read  older books and manuscripts and making them available online. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Although storage  incompatibilities  and technological obsolescence are things that can be viewed as  problematic  for digital preservation, it is clear that the benefits greatly outweigh   the drawbacks.  As a result, you should definitely consider starting  to get all of your non-digital data into a digitally preserved format.</span></p>
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