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A conservation technician examining an artwork under a microscope at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The conservation and restoration of books, manuscripts, documents, and ephemera is an activity dedicated to extending the life of items of historical and personal value made primarily from paper, parchment, and leather.
Embroidery software is software that helps users create embroidery designs. While a large majority of embroidery software is specific to machine embroidery, there is also software available for use with hand embroidery techniques, such as cross-stitch.
The cornerstone of digital preservation, "data integrity" refers to the assurance that the data is "complete and unaltered in all essential respects"; a program designed to maintain integrity aims to "ensure data is recorded exactly as intended, and upon later retrieval, ensure the data is the same as it was when it was originally recorded".
Some means of digital preservation include refreshing, migration, replication and emulation. This should not be confused with digitization, which is a process of creating digital information which must then itself be preserved digitally. Reformatting is the practice of creating copies of an object in another type of data-storage device.
PastPerfect Museum Software is an application for collections archiving. It is designed for museums, but may be used by various institutions including libraries, archives, and natural history collections.
When digital media is presented using a different hardware or software, it may appear slightly different, but it will still be the same piece of media art. [ 18 ] MANS uses XML to present the metadata specifically because it allows the coder to define the framework of the digital media while allowing for variations in how it presents itself.
The term "digital curation" was first used in the e-science and biological science fields as a means of differentiating the additional suite of activities ordinarily employed by library and museum curators to add value to their collections and enable its reuse [12] [13] [14] from the smaller subtask of simply preserving the data, a significantly more concise archival task. [12]
The FP7 DURAFILE Project (based on a FP7 initiative under grant agreement n° FP7-SME-2013-605356) aimed to offer a novel software platform preserving both personal digital information and the digital information generated by organizations. This is the first attempt to bring Digital Preservation to home users and small-medium size companies