Ensuring the long-term preservation of digital records requires actively planning for file format obsolescence and media degradation.
Creating a digital preservation policy guarantees that critical records will be migrated to updated formats and remain fully readable decades from now.
- Are you currently storing permanent or long-term records in proprietary file formats that might become obsolete?
- What is your organization's official strategy for migrating data when a legacy software system is decommissioned? <
Action Item: Identify three legacy file formats currently in use and list their modern, open-standard equivalents for preservation.