Benefits of Digital Preservation
| • Administrative continuity |
| Helps in clear identification, preservation and protection of the valuable digital resources of an organization. Administrative continuity can be ensured |
| • Protection of digital intellectual assets |
| The wealth of knowledge and intellectual assets of an organization are increasingly encoded in digital formats which requires to be retained and protected. Such digital information represents intellectual property which is produced with considerable amount of time, effort and money. |
| • Reuse |
| Repositories of e-records and the tools to mine, analyze and re-purpose them represent a society's intellectual capital. Digital preservation helps in immediate, near term as well as long term usability of digital information beyond its primary users. |
| • Long term view |
| Access to e-records from the past and digital continuity is critical for planning, trend analysis, decision making and research. |
| • Legal obligations |
| Digital preservation helps in fulfilling the legal obligations of record retention and protecting the evidentiary value of e-records. |
| • Protection from litigation |
| Helps in clear identification, preservation and protection of the valuable digital resources of an organization. Administrative continuity can be ensured |
| • Digital heritage for future generations |
| The information, knowledge, cultural and historical artefacts in the modern digital age are being created, encoded and stored through digital means which forms the digital heritage for future generations. |
