Hitachi is a large Japanese electronics and software company with over $70 billion in annual revenue and 300,000 employees worldwide. Digital preservation aims to manage digital information over time through long-term storage and ensuring future access. Key strategies for digital preservation include refreshing storage media, migrating files to new formats, replicating files, emulating old systems, and maintaining metadata to allow future understanding of file contents and context. Outsourcing digital preservation to specialist companies is also an option.

1. Digital Preservation & Sustainability

2. Wayne NorrieExecutive Director Co-Founder

4. World’s 4th largest electronics manufacturer

5. World’s 10th largest software company

6. Sales from IS and Telecommunications: $US27B

7. 1,000+ subsidiaries; 20,000 products

8. R&D investment >$US3 billion

9. More than 60% in IS and electronics

10. 300,000+ employees

11. 17,000 researchers in 32 labs worldwide

13. Digital preservation is the management of digital information over time. Digital preservation is defined as: long-term, error-free storage of digital information, with means for retrieval and interpretation, for the entire time span the information is required for. Long-term is defined as "long enough to be concerned with the impacts of changing technologies, including support for new media and data formats, or with a changing user community. "

15. Migration

16. Replicaton

17. Emulation

18. Metadata Attachment

19. Trustworthy Digital ObjectsOR