Products

1. Policies, strategies and procedures for small and medium sized archival organizations or programs, and guidelines for the records creators whose records fall under their responsibility;
2. Action plans for the specific case studies carried out in the course of the project;
3. An analysis of the validity, applicability or adaptability of action plans developed in the specific cases studied to different organizations, contexts or countries;
4. A comparison among the action plans developed for the preservation of records at different stages in their lifecycle (i.e., creation, use, maintenance, modification, preservation);
5. Criteria to determine “most-at-risk” materials, such as date created, date last accessed, carrier, operating system, software used, equipment required and its availability, etc.;
6. Guidelines for addressing preservation requirements that apply to specific types of digital records, but not to others, and may be used in the context of limited resource environments;
7. Evaluation models for assessing the degree of success of the chosen preservation action;
8. Cost-benefit models for various types of archives or programs, records, and/or systems;
9. Ethical models that identify and make explicit the consequences for individuals and society of various types of preservation measures or lack thereof;
10. A web site providing small and medium sized archival organizations or programs worldwide with access to the products of this research free of charge;
11. A refined body of theoretical and methodological knowledge on digital preservation, communicated in conference papers, symposia, and refereed publications;
12. Training and education modules for archival organizations or programs, professional associations, and university programs; and awareness and education modules for non-archivists, such as IT professionals, vendors, and service providers; human resources and financial managers; communities of practice; members of the general public, etc.; and a strategy for delivering them;
13. Position papers directed to key regulating, controlling, auditing and policy making bodies, advocating the vital need of integrating planned digital preservation in the requirements they issue for the activities they regulate, control or audit, and explaining possible ways of doing so.