READIT-2007 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

) Technical
c) Resource challenges.
6. SELECTING ASSETS FOR PRESERVATION
Organizational viability
(a) Organizational:
Organizations are investing for the digital assets for the purpose of
preservation. These decisions should be well-informed, consistent, reevaluated over
time, and documented. Selection protocols should be developed to assess the value of
the digital objects to the organization.
(b) Technical:
Protocols and tools to support and enable selection of digital assets should
continue to be developed and refined with use. Once decisions are made, ingest tools
should be ready to apply those rules.
7. BALANCING MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDERS
Administrative responsibility: producers, users, owners, managers, and others
have varied- and sometimes conflicting- interests and desires regarding digital
objects.
(a) Organizational:
The organization needs a clear and explicit commitment to the establishment
of a digital preservation program and an accurate definition of the scope and purpose
of the program that balances the interest and priorities of stakeholders.
Communication and outreach play an important role in engaging stakeholders’
participation. Stakeholders include content creators or providers designated and future
users, and digital preservation managers.
(b) Technical:
Developing and maintaining the requisite technological infrastructure require
ongoing comprehensive planning.
8. LEGAL ISSUES
Ownership and copyright are not simple in the digital preservation world,
where migration copies, archival copies, derivative versions, and other states of an
object exist, changing over time.
(a) Organizational:
Meeting legal requirements for preserving digital objects requires careful,
comprehensive, ongoing approaches that avoid risk to the organization or objects, and
that enable effective mitigation as concerns arise. Thorough procedures, protocols,
and documentation strategies provide the most effective organizational response for
legal issues.
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