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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Dublin Core, Open Archives Initiative, Preservation, Microform, Digital preservation, Digital artifactual value, Digital library, Archivist, Provenance, Map collection, BagIt, Encoded Archival Description, Archival appraisal, Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, Wiltshire Record Society, Defense Technical Information Center, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Tape baking, MoReq2, Book preservation in developing countries, Archival processing, Digital Preservation Coalition, V-mail, Digital curation, Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies, National Preservation Office, Fedora, METS, Xena, cole Nationale des Chartes, Mold prevention, Resource Map, Image Permanence Institute, Open Archival Information System, Media Curation, Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange, Repository, Aperture card, Finding aid, Fonds, Historical Records Survey, Disciplinary repository, Special collections, Encoded Archival Context, Personal archiving, Microfilmer, OPAR L'Orientale Open Archive, Software Preservation Society, Describing Archives: A Content Standard, Archives and Museum Informatics, Colombian College of Archivists, CAMiLEON, Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification, Archive Fever, NUCMC, ISAD(G), BS 5454, Collection catalog. Excerpt: Preservation is a branch of library and information science concerned with maintaining or restoring access to artifacts, documents and records through the study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of decay and damage. It should be distinguished from conservation which refers to the treatment and repair of individual items to slow decay or restore them to a usable state. Conservation is occasionally used interchangeably with preservation, particularly outside the professional literature. Although preservation as a ...