adj. (also born-analog)originating in nondigital formatTadic 2004, 11How will we access today’s born-digital objects in 4000 years, or born-analog objects transferred to digital?Bergeron 2007, 72For born-analog media, particularly motion picture film, scanning to digital is still chiefly a solution to access, not preservation.Nodler 2012, 33Museums must possess either digitally reformatted versions of, or playback equipment for, born-analog content, for example, Betacam tapes or 16mm film, much of which may be physically deteriorating.Laster 2012, 25Most government information librarians want to see a future in which every government publication is freely available in an easy-to-use digital format to anyone in the world at any point in time, with carefully preserved print copies of every born-analog document readily available for the users and needs that require the original.Gross 2012, 7The scope of responsibility regarding the digital preservation program applies to both born-analog and born-digital collections.Ruedel 2012, 63This is vital not only to preserve history but also because of the necessity of access to born-analog works via digital versions and the potential digital restoration indeed does offer.Gracy 2012, 449For the purposes of this study, archival audiovisual collections are defined as motion picture film or video recordings (either born-analog or born-digital) that are intended to be kept so that they may be available for future generations or for future uses (either commercial or noncommercial), regardless of their age at the time of acquisition.Jacobs and Jacobs 2013Digitization of existing books and other static, born-analog materials such as magazines, newspapers, and journals is increasingly valued and important for libraries and the communities they serve.McCombs 2013, 291At the same time, a grants program was created to digitize born‐analog research papers and conference materials.Lazar 2015, 41–42Once the born analog data are digitized, they can be fused with born digital data, just like any other source, and analyzed together as well.Schmidt 2016, 63The root cause of this difficulty is the subtle difference between “born digital” and “born-analog” texts. In the born-digital case when an author encodes a property like “title” (the title of a work), he/she effectively declares that it is in fact a title. But in the “born-analog” case, when transcriptions are made of physical historical documents, what the transcriber sees as a title may be recorded in a myriad of different ways.
