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Sharing, preservation and licensing: Data loss

While paper records can last for centuries, millennia even, digital data - specifically the bits and bytes which it comprises - can deteriorate quickly. While this will vary depending on the media used - magnetic, optical, and so on - decay over time ('bit rot') introduces errors that reduces their ability to be read.

What term most accurately describes the data loss phenomenon described above?

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PILOT - Writing a data management plan by Edina, University of Edinburgh modified by Marion Kelt, GCU is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/introduction.html