Digital preservation consist of applying techniques and methods to ensure continued access to information that is digitally stored in any kind of format, software, hardware or system, in the future.
Due to explosion of new technologies, there are more and more born digital documents -often ephemeral- and more digitized documents by institutions that should be preserved maintaining their integrity, authenticity, reliability, legibility and functionalities.
The BC has set up two initiatives, which can help other institutions.
The workgroup who takes care of the digital preservation repository is the Grup de Preservació Digital, formed by:
Karibel Pérez kperez@bnc.cat and Ramon Novoa rnovoa@bnc.cat (Information Technology Area)
Paquita Navarro fnavarro@bnc.cat (Digitization Unit)
Margarida Ullate mullate@bnc.cat (Sound and Audiovisuals Unit)
Sergi Font sfont@bnc.cat (Google project at the BC)
Eugènia Serra eserra@bnc.cat (General Coordination)