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Assessment: Selection of Digital Materials for Long-term Retention
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Rights and Responsibilities
Rights 1
Does acquisition automatically confer a preservation responsibility
(e.g. legal deposit acquisition /evidential requirements) ?
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Rights and Responsibilities
Rights 2
Has preservation responsibility been accepted elsewhere?
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Rights and Responsibilities
Rights 3
Do you require a higher degree of preservation commitment
or access to this resource than offered elsewhere?
Advice 2: Acquire for use but not preservation.
For further help in developing a policy on selection of
digital materials for long-term preservation please go
to Guidance
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Help with Rights 3
If preservation responsibility has been accepted elsewhere,
decisions on whether you might also wish to take on preservation
responsibility will include consideration of the following:
- Has preservation responsibility been undertaken only
for the short-term?
- Does the infrastructure of the organisation elsewhere
pose any doubts as to the ability to guarantee long-term
access to the resource?
- Are there any access conditions imposed which your organisation
would consider unacceptable?
- Has responsibility elsewhere been taken only to mirror
the resource, i.e. to provide access but not necessarily
to guarantee long-term preservation?
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Rights and Responsibilities
Rights 4
Do you have (or can you negotiate) acceptable arrangements
for acquisition and/or transfer, including frequency of ingest
appropriate to the resource and your business model?
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Rights and Responsibilities
Rights 5
Re-evaluate acquisition. Is the resource worth acquiring and
preserving even if there are undesirable restrictions on accepting
the material?
Advice 3: Acquire the resource but document
that long-term preservation may not be feasible.
For further help in developing a policy on selection of
digital materials for long-term preservation please go
to Guidance
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Rights and Responsibilities
Rights 6
Do you have (or can you negotiate) the rights to transfer
to different carriers and/or different formats for the purposes
of preservation?
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Advice 3: Acquire the resource but document
that long-term preservation may not be feasible.
For further help in developing a policy on selection of digital
materials for long-term preservation please go to Guidance
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