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Research Questions
- Which are the regulatory, auditing and policy making bodies that
need to be sensitized to the importance of digital preservation, and what are the best
ways of influencing them?
- How can we adapt the existing knowledge about digital records preservation
to the needs and circumstances of small and medium sized archival organizations or
programs?
- How and when should these archives or programs prepare themselves
for digital preservation?
- What differentiates the preservation of digital records from that
of any other digital entity for which the archives might be responsible?
- What kinds of digital records, either soon to be preserved by a
small or medium sized archival organization or program or already in its custody, are
currently most in need of attention, and what are the most urgent issues and problems
associated with their creation, management and/or preservation?
- What are the nature and the characteristics of the relationship
that each of these archives or programs should establish with the creators of the records
for which it is responsible?
- What kind of policy, strategy and procedures should any such archives
or program have in place to be able to control the digital records for which it will
be or already is responsible from creation to preservation, and on what factors are
these administrative devices dependent (e.g. a specific accountability framework and
governance structure)?
- What action plans may be devised for the long-term preservation
of these bodies of records?
- Can the action plan chosen for a given body of records be valid
for another body of records of the same type, produced and preserved by the same kind
of organization, person, or community in the same country?
- Can the action plan chosen for a given body of records be valid
for another body of records of the same type, produced and preserved by the same kind
of organization, person or community in another country or culture?
- Can the action plan chosen for a certain type of record or system
be valid independently of the creating or preserving organization and its context?
- What knowledge and skills are required for those who must devise
policies, procedures and action plans for the preservation of digital records in small
and medium sized archival organizations or programs?
- How can records professionals keep their knowledge of digital preservation
up-to-date in the face of ongoing and increasingly fast technological change?
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