adj. Of or relating to a physical object that has been digitized and stored in an online archive, making it more readily accessible.
2016
Various kinds of digital material are not digital in the same way, which a distinction between digitized, born-digital, and reborn-digital may help us acknowledge, thereby helping us to understand how each of these types of digital material affects the different phases of scholarly work.
2015
This workshop session provides an introduction to methods and technologies of remediating analogue text into digital forms.
2013
Until quite recently, most materials — be they photographs, manuscripts, or government documents — were not born in digital environments. However, digitization projects have been undertaken to ensure that such historical materials are more widely and eternally available. These reborn digital objects, then, have been and can be integrated into dynamic social environments.
2001 (earliest)
Libraries and archives have two distinct categories of digital objects — materials that exist only in digital form ("born-digital" information) and materials that are digitized versions of analog source materials ("reborn-digital" information).
“There used to be an assumption this target was not online,” said Frank Cooper, vice president for flavored carbonated soft drinks at Pepsi-Cola North America in Purchase, N.Y. "But there’s a group in that category that’s 'reborn digital.' They’ve lived through the change and learned to adapt to it."