Digital artifact in information science, is any undesired or unintended alteration in data introduced in a digital process by an involved technique and/or technology.

A complicated grid pattern is insufficiently processed by a smartphone camera.
A scan of a drawing with large areas of whitespace; the diamond Moiré pattern is a scanning artifact.

Digital artifact can be of any content types including text, audio, video, image, animation or a combination.

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In information science, digital artifacts result from:

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