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  • Curation questions
    • Where does the stuff come from? How will be reused and by whom? What are their requirements?
    • What is the importance of the asset from the point of view of the institution?
    • Do you need to provide guidance or support, to the depositor or to the user?
    • What are the responsibilities? Who is the 'collection owner'? Who decides how it is catalogued, stored, etc.?
    • Are there any rights issues associated with the content itself (eg privacy) or in the transfer (eg copyright)
    • What resources do you have available? Is this entirely new, or an extension of something you are doing already in part or in whole?


  • Technical questions
    • What do you need to know - how much detail? Know what you don't need to know. What is enough information?
    • Technical properties
      • (1) What have you got: complexity/diversity, volume/growth
      • (2) What is the carrier medium?
      • (3) What formats do you have? Are these problematic? (e.g. can you render the format? do files render correctly? what level of QA does the collection need - e.g. file by file? - do you have the resources available for the workflow? what tools are you using?)
      • (4) What is the expected usage?
    • Provenance or audit trail properties
      • What do you need to control? What changes are you willing to accept? What do you need to track and what not?
      • What is the authenticity requirement?
  • Solutions
    • What are you proposing? What actions?
    • (1) What tools are do you need? Forensics? Characterisation? Etc.
    • (2) Bit-level / carrier medium solutions: What is the refreshment cycle? Are you moving media?
    • (3) and (4) Content solutions (just stabilise, migrate, emulate)


  • further information
    • characterisation
    • case studies
    • content audit etc