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• Perception and awareness of risk posed by digital materials• Understanding how digital preservation affects the organisation• Identifying what actions have been taken to prevent loss of
digital materials• Develop an understanding of the way preservation activities are
monitored (policies or programmes)• Understand how organisations plan future preservation
requirements (e.g. costs)• What technologies are in place
Focus of Investigations
DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE): Introduction
• Variation in awareness of risk• Value of information depends upon recognition of
business/organisational dependency, potential of re-use, or risk associated with information (not necessarily cost)
• Responsibility rarely taken at corporate level• Few organisations have adequate strategies• Activity is fragmentary: practices tend to be incomplete, ad hoc,
and unitary• waiting for external solutions• Preservation and storage poorly understood • Lack of policies and procedures
Eight Very General Findings
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DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE): Introduction
DELOS Digital Preservation Testbed
• DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries; Digital Preservation Cluster, (FP6 IST)
• Joint efforts by Dutch National Archives, TU-WIEN, ONB, Phonogram Archives, SUB Göttingen, CNR with additional input from many other parties
• DELOS, Digital Preservation Cluster NoE, 6th Framework Program ISTReport at: http://www.dpc.delos.info