[... Digitization] never promises preservation. Archives do not just “digitize” a document one time; technological changes require ongoing format migration to avoid obsolescence, one of the reasons paper is actually one of the most stable formats for preservation. So while “digital networks have enabled the acceleration of access by reducing text to data,” as Hilderbrand notes, “digitization is not preservation”—or at least, not the kind of singular act of preservation we might hope for it to be.

— Information Activism by Cait McKinney