The process of converting continuous information to discrete structured data is known as digitization. In the case of text, a page may be scanned into a picture and thereafter, with the help of software, it forms digital characters. In sound, audio is sampled at intervals which transforms the vibrations into numbers, a representation of pitch, tone and volume.
This is trade off involved. St scan A scan of a handwritten page can lose texture or other handwriting features, and the compression of audio files can eliminate professional features such as room acoustics or overtones. However, with digitization, they can be shared, edited, stored and reproduced in a manner that is not possible with physical analog media.
This process concept allowed me to understand in practice that digitizing is not a technical process in itself, but a kind of translation. The choice of sampling rate, resolution and compression represents what is most significant to save and what we can afford to take away to be convenient or efficient.
Connection to Objective: This post shows how digitization occurs in text and sound as it discusses the tradeoffs involved in digitizing analog information to digital forms.