Writing preservation policies might be a daunting task, but support is underway!

One of the activities in the European project SCAPE is to create a catalogue of policy elements. At the last iPRES conference we explained our work and you can read about it .

Last week ISO published the new version of the basic standard in digital preservation, the OAIS reference model ISO
14721:2012. After consulting the community a few years ago, we can now see what has changed and added to the OAIS standard. A change bar in the margin indicates the places where text is changed or inserted. But I found it more convenient to

In the Scape project, policies for digital preservation play an important role. The sub project Planning and Watch is especially interested in integrating institutional policies into automated watch and automated planning. But most of the preservation policies are formulated on a very high and often strategic level. They are too general to be used in automated processes. A literature investigation and studying existing policies led to a three level distinction of preservation policies:

During the Planets project Paul Wheatley and I created the Planets Functional Model http://www.planets-project.eu/docs/reports/Planets_PP7-D6_EvaluationOfPPWithinOAIS.pdf . We identified in this model the functions that were related to the (OAIS) Preservation Planning activity, inspired by the experience gathered in the various Planets work packages.