Preservation
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Preservation may mean:
- Cultural Heritage Preservation, which includes:
- Preservation in Library and Archival Science, the theory and practice of actively maintaining artifacts and the intellectual record.
- Art conservation and restoration, the retention of antiquities for museums or exhibition, also called "Art preservation"
- Digital preservation, the management of digital information over time
- Film preservation, rescuing aging film stock and preserving recorded images, and in the U.S., the National Film Preservation Board.
- Historic preservation, the theory and practice of creatively maintaining the historic built environment
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