Timeline of digital preservation

This page is a timeline of digital preservation and Web archiving. It covers various aspects of saving and preserving digital data, whether they are born-digital or not.

Trends
Digital preservation encompasses a variety of efforts and technologies, so its history can be viewed through various trends in these separate efforts:


 * File systems with built-in fault-tolerance
 * Various changes in the physical storage used
 * On-demand archiving services
 * URL shortening services
 * Various episodes of major archival work, sometimes as a result of services shutting down
 * Efforts at converting physical/analog information to more modern digital media, file formats, and storage

Full timeline
This full timeline is sortable; in particular, sorting by the "Topic" column allows for viewing the timeline grouped by the various trends mentioned above.