digitisation; digitised

this is a process through which a digital copy is produced from analogue – hard copy – records. Methods for digitisation may include scanning or taking a digital photo of an analogue records, such as a letter.

The resulting copy is a digitised record; the original record remain the hard copy item, as this is the format of the material as it was first made. Archive services consider digitised records to be different from records which were first created using digital means, such as an email or digital photograph; these are sometimes referred to as born digital records