born-digital
Americanadjective
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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.
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originating online.
born-digital businesses.
Etymology
Origin of born-digital
First recorded in 1995–2000
Example Sentences
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The Salman Rushdie Papers, meanwhile, allow researchers to access born-digital materials by loading an emulator of Rushdie’s Macintosh Performa.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2015
The Sept. 11 Digital Archive reveals a problem unique to born-digital materials: Unlike print materials, preserving them requires continuous translation.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2015
And he seems pleased that strong authors’ rights “no longer command universal respect among the born-digital generation”.
From Economist • Dec. 11, 2014
Leslie Morris, a curator at the Houghton Library, said, “We don’t really have any methodology as of yet” to process born-digital material.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2010
With the new archive from David Foster Wallace, the Ransom Center now has 40 collections with born-digital material, including Norman Mailer’s.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2010
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