Dictionary definition(s) for: permanent preservation

• n., See: records preservation
• n., The physical and technological stabilization and protection of intellectual content of materials intended for their continuing, enduring, stable, lasting, uninterrupted, and unbroken chain of preservation, without a foreseeable end.
  Duranti, Luciana. "The Concept of Appraisal and Archival Theory." American Archivist 57, no. 2 (1994): 328-344.