Explaining Pres Actions: a Working Document
Taking no action. What the methodology is, or what it purports to do; How it works; Different strategies for approaching or maintaining the methodology. All these preservation actions presume access to the bit-stream. That is to say, that it is possible to access the physically stored data without being technologically inhibited (e.g., if the digital object is stored on a CD-ROM, it is still possible to read the CD-ROM, and the data stored on the CD-ROM is still intact). Ensuring digital materials are not stored on obsolescent carriers is a significant preservation issue, but is not the subje...