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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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 is not as a product of top-down curation but a process of open-ended participation, composed of born-digital ephemera.
From Slate
The Salman Rushdie Papers, meanwhile, allow researchers to access born-digital materials by loading an emulator of Rushdie’s Macintosh Performa.
From Slate
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