Digital artifact

Digital artifact in information science, is any undesired or unintended alteration in data introduced in a digital process by an involved technique and/or technology. In anthropology and archeology a digital artifact is an artifact that is of a digital nature or creation. For example, a gif is such an artifact.

Digital artifact can be of any content types including text, audio, video, image, animation or a combination.

In information science, digital artifacts result from:

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