Preservation Health Check: Monitoring Threats to Digital Repository Content
Description:
The Open Planets Foundation (OPF) has suggested the need for digital preservation repositories to perform periodic “health checks” as a routine part of their preservation activities. In the same way that doctors monitor basic health properties of their patients to spot indications of infirmity, repositories should monitor a set of properties associated with “preservation health” to provide an early warning of potential threats to the ongoing security of the archived digital objects in their car…
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Date:
April 2014
Creator:
Kool, Wouter; Werf, Titia van der & Lavoie, Brian
Partner:
UNT Libraries