[Archives] 
n., The physical and technological stabilization and protection of intellectual content of materials intended for their continuing, enduring, stable, lasting, uninterrupted, and unbroken chain of preservation, without a foreseeable end. [Archives] 
n., See
n., See
: records preservation system [Archives] 
: non-volatile storage [Computer and Information Sciences] 
n., A strategy that seeks to make the architecture of archival information systems used to preserve digit
al records independent of t