"This second edition has been updated to address new trends and concerns in software. It also addresses questions about preserving materials with no original physical format and preserving media storage devices as important artifacts in themselves."-- Provided by publisher.

Why use digital preservation? --How do computers store information? -- Storing images -- Storing text -- Storing audio and video -- Storing born digital materials -- Floppy disks and optical media -- Magnetic tape -- Hard drives -- Flash memory -- Cloud computing -- Equipment for digitizing and editing archival materials -- Metadata and accessing information -- Copyright law -- Problems with digital preservation -- Drawing up policies.