Digital preservation risks

How do you describe risk?

Auditing Options

• DRAMBORA http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/about/
• SPOT Model

How do you prioritise risk?

Risk areas to think about Use the DRAMBORA classification:

• Pyhsical environment
• Personnel, Management and Admin procedures
• Operations & Service Delivery
• Hardware, Software of Communications Equipment and Facilities

Cross reference with the SPOT model:

• availability (long-term use...)
• identity (referencibility...)
• persistence
• renderability (use and retain sig. char.)
• understandability (interpretation of content)
• authenticity (digital bit or rendered form is what it is supposed to be)
• security

CURATION

• responsibility (who is actually responsible)
• rights and licensing, use/re-use
• IP
• sensitivity (access control)
• who adds value

ORGANISATION

• capability and skills (skills gap)
• succession planning
• MANDATE (local, institutional, national, international)
• usability
• marketing/surfacing/relevance
• value of asset, reputation of asset
• accruing value, impact, re-use, evidence
• measuring and metrics
• understand the long-term vision if the data is view over a long/short-term
• managing expectations of use
• value of materials against strategy
• what happens when the organization no longer values the collection?
• flow of resources to keep activity going (sustainability)
• respond to external factors
• institutional sustainability
• organization maturity (are they ready to care for these assets)

• risk profiles (are they similar to physical or organization structure) are we making assumptions?