What is digital curation ?

One of the terms also used in the field of digital curation and preservation of digital objects is digital curation. Digital curation is the set of techniques used in an archive and one of them is digital preservation.

Digital curation and digital preservation are usually associated terms with national archives libraries and indeed so.

When a digital document, a Word file, spreadsheet file, a picture, a digital video or any other material comes in an archive, this is subjected to a life cycle to not have problems in the future, in order to access to its information. One of the techniques used in the work cycle is digital preservation.

The reality is that we also have a digital file, our personal digital archive. We distribute our digital materials everywhere in cameras, social networks, directories and all places.

But ... are  your digital materials safe? Do you have backup copies of your digital documents? Not only pictures, word documents, e-mails, spreadsheet documents, videos or digital music are part of you own archive. And all of them needs to be an achived document in any or tohter sense.

What happens if you lose your materials? Many of us regret losing the property of them if our computer crashes for one reason or another.

Since this blog is the idea that you can take home a small file, can know what file is a cycle that has to do with it and most of its documents.