born-digital

American  

[bawrn-dij-i-tl] / ˌbɔrnˈdɪdʒ ɪ tl /

adjective

1. relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form.

   electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.

2. originating online.

   born-digital businesses.

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Etymology

Origin of born-digital

First recorded in 1995–2000

Example Sentences

These and many more are to be included in the library's born-digital archives.

From BBC

In addition to millions of pages of paper, the Obama presidential records include some 300 million emails, as well as Snapchat posts, tweets and other born-digital records.

From New York Times

Rhizome, an affiliate of the museum since 2003 that is dedicated to what it calls “born-digital art and culture,” recently commissioned a project, enron.email, which was developed by Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain and explores the more than 100,000 emails relating to Enron’s corporate fraud.

From New York Times

The Sept. 11 Digital Archive germinated in early 2002, when a team of 14 faculty and staff at the City University of New York’s American Social History Project and George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media began collecting born-digital materials related to the terrorist attacks.

From Slate

The Sept. 11 Digital Archive reveals a problem unique to born-digital materials: Unlike print materials, preserving them requires continuous translation.

From Slate