As a professional archivist, I get tired of hearing that “digitization is not preservation” as well, even in regards to paper, from the “Twitsplainers.”

If I digitize it (assuming all appropriate archival digitization standards are followed, and I put it on the Internet), making it more accessible, worldwide, 24/7/365, thus allowing more users to see the content and use it, and most likely less users will then demand to see the original.

I now preserve the paper original properly, and all of its digital surrogates, including an archival master, a use JPEG, and a thumbnail, in three different places, online, offline, and on a web server.

THUS GUARANTEEING MAKING THE ORIGINAL AND ITS CONTENT LAST LONGER.

How is that not preservation?