American spelling: the ongoing process of converting something into digital form.
Present participle of 'digitize.' Emphasizes the continuous nature of conversion—a process that defines modern information technology.
The Internet Archive is digitizing every book it can find—over 30 million so far—because paper yellows and crumbles, but digital files can theoretically last forever if we keep copying them forward.
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