Value | Justification | Strategy |
Identity | To distinguish an object from others | Persistent naming, actionable resolution |
Viability | To recover an object from its medium | Redundancy, heterogeneity, media refres |
Fixity | To ensure that an object is unchanged from its accepted state | Redundancy, error-corrrecting codes, message digests |
Authenticity | To ensure that an object is what it purports to be | Provenance, cryptographically-secure signatures |
Ontology | To understand an object’s significant nature | Syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characterization |
Visibility | To enable users to find objects of interest | Public discovery systems and registries, exposure for web harverst |
Utility | To expose an object’s underlying content | Behaviour-rich delivery |
Portability | To facilitate content sharing and succession planning | Self-contained, self-documenting objects, packaging standards |
Appraisement | To understand the consequences of time | Analysis and assessment |
Timelines | To know when a preservation value is threatened | Technology watch, stakeholder engagement |
IS&T Archiving 2004