The ability of an organisation to facilitate and provide the necessary resources to enable research.
What are the Risks of not preserving digital materials?
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Technologies used become obsolete; this may apply to elements such as hardware, software and file formats. |
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The bits and bytes making up the digital information degrade over time. |
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Insufficient contextual information (metadata) to understand the information and for it to be useful. |
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Lack of supporting legislation to facilitate preservation, particularly relating to copyright/IPR, privacy and legal deposit. |
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Rate of data creation outstrips capacity for storage, processing and preservation. |
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Insufficient staffing/skills to be able to carry out successful preservation. |
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Executive level support for digital preservation is not persistent |
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Failure to engage with stakeholders at all stages of the record life-cycle |
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Unable to fully capture and represent current events for future generations |
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The hardware or software required to interpret, and present digital information is no longer available |
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Research data not transferred to the relevant repository for preservation |
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No active preservation carried out on data |
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Data from an experiment that cannot be repeated is not preserved |
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Data is inaccessible due to lack of preservation |
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Data is not preserved with sufficient context, identifiers and documentation |
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Data rendered usable through a lack of proactive use, updates, and checking |
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Storage conditions are inadequate for preservation |
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Preservation not carried out in a timely manner |
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No active programme/processes aimed at acquiring digital objects/collections |
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Organisation does not move important digital/digitized objects into a preservation system |
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What Opportunities do preserved digital materials create?
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Digital Preservation can… |
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an investment in distinctiveness, competence and competitiveness by providing access to legacy data and digital systems which are essential for innovation, research, development |
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capture potential by providing greater scope for innovation and reuse of data |
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make available a dynamic, powerful information asset which represents an accurate social and cultural record |
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inform business initiatives today through an understanding of previous decisions and rationale enabled by access to a complete set of reliable records |
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provide opportunities for raising funds through the reuse of existing data |
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generate income and new service models through the reuse of existing data |
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provide opportunities for the reuse of historical research data for purposes not originally anticipated |
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increase the potential for the re-use of digital material though established IPR |
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help ensure that cultural and creative data, including the outputs of industry remains accessible, reusable and understandable |
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create greater scope for innovation and reuse by using cultural and creative data at scale |
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maintain access to digital outputs of cultural and creative industries which are essential for innovation, research, development |