Electronic media

Description

An all-encompassing term for any material used to store and transmit information electronically. Electronic media are digital, machine-readable data. They can, in general be stored in much less space than the original sources, such as paper documents, and photographs. Examples of electronic media include computer hard drives, magnetic storage devices (Magnetic tape, Audiotape, video tape), and optical storage devices (floppy disk, CD-ROM, DVD, Laserdisc). More recently, the term has also been used to include Web pages.

Synonyms and Related Terms

data storage: magnetic media, optical media, storage media;

Resources and Citations

• Electronic Media Review Link to articles available of talks at the Electronic Media Group (EMG) sessions of the AIC annual meetings
• Smithsonian Institution Archives: Preservation Strategies for Born-Digital Materials
• American Library Association (ALA): Digital Preservation Resource Guide
• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998
• Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com Comment: "magnetic recording." Accessed 15 Mar. 2005.
• Wikipedia: Magnetic storage
• Wikipedia: Data storage