NDSA:Preservation Practices

Potential Standards/Best Practices to Consider about Preservation Practices

These may or may not be relevant - recording them here so that they can be examined for relevancy

• ISO 15801: 2009 Document management -- Information stored electronically -- Recommendations for trustworthiness and reliability
• new French effort: BS ISO 14641-1 Electronic archiving Specifications concerning the design and the operation of an information system for electronic information preservation
• ARP1-2009 AIIM Recommended Practice - Analysis, Selection, and Implementation of Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS)
• Standard in development: BS ISO/IEC 27037 Information technology - Security techniques - Guidelines for identification, collection, acquisition and preservation of digital evidence
• ISO 14721 (OAIS Open Archival Information System)
  • OAIS Review 2006-9 by the DPC (see section mid-page at http://www.dpconline.org/advice/dpc-reports)
• ISO/TR 18492: Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Document-Based Information
• ISO/IEC 27001: Information Technology - Security Techniques - Information Security Management Systems - Requirements
• ISO/IEC 27002: Information Technology - Security Techniques - Information Security Management Systems - Code of Practice for Information Security Management
• Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification (TRAC)
• DPC Digital Preservation Handbook (http://www.dpconline.org/advice/preservationhandbook)

Areas where guidance is needed

• Taking responsibility for archiving and preservation
• Managing digital preservation programs
• Creating preservable digital content and working with producers
• Deciding what to preserve
• Transferring digital objects to an archive
• Naming, describing and controlling archived digital objects
• Managing legal issues that impact on preservation
• Protecting and storing the data of digital information resources
• Maintaining the means of re-presenting archived objects for access.

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