#digital archiving

• To archive — The action of organizing, classifying, and storing documents, official records, or digital data in a secure and structured space, aimed at long-term preservation and facilitating future retrieval. In a modern computing context, it refers to the process of compressing one or multiple files into a single, smaller digital document using specific compression algorithms to optimize storage space.
• Archiving — The act of archiving and its result; the administrative process of sorting, classifying, and long-term storing of documents retired from current use. In computer science, it represents the action of grouping multiple files into a single file and, optionally, compressing them to save storage space.