born-digital

[ bawrn-dij-i-tl ]

adjective

1. relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form:

   electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.

2. originating online:

   born-digital businesses.

Word History and Origins

Origin of born-digital¹

First recorded in 1995–2000

Example Sentences

These and many more are to be included in the library's born-digital archives.

From BBC

In addition to millions of pages of paper, the Obama presidential records include some 300 million emails, as well as Snapchat posts, tweets and other born-digital records.

From New York Times

Rhizome, an affiliate of the museum since 2003 that is dedicated to what it calls “born-digital art and culture,” recently commissioned a project, enron.email, which was developed by Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain and explores the more than 100,000 emails relating to Enron’s corporate fraud.

From New York Times

The Sept. 11 Digital Archive is not as a product of top-down curation but a process of open-ended participation, composed of born-digital ephemera.

From Slate

The Salman Rushdie Papers, meanwhile, allow researchers to access born-digital materials by loading an emulator of Rushdie’s Macintosh Performa.

From Slate