Digital preservation: bit preservation and physical storage of the data

Sources of guidance on the handling and storage of storage media:

Digital Preservation Note 3: Care, handling and storage of removable media, guidance issued by The National Archives (UK)

Caring for CDs and DVDs, guidance issued by the British Library (under FAQs)

Obsolescence of digital material is explained by the National Archives of Australia.

Digital Preservation Guidance Note 2: Selecting Storage Media for Long Term Preservation, guidance issued by The National Archives (UK)

Henriksen, S. L., W. Seuskens and G Wijers, Best practices for a digital storage infrastructure for the long term preservation of digital files, one of the public deliverables from the EU funded Digitising Contemporary Art project.

USGS Guidelines for the Preservation of Digital Scientific Data April 2014

NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation

Technology Watch Reports by Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)

OCLC Research's You've Got to Walk Before you Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media (Erway Ricky, 2012)