Appendix A. Generic Archiving Checklist
- Define motivations for archiving
- Legal requirements
- Multiple overlapping laws
- Laws from multiple countries
- Business policy
- Object value
- Historical significance
- Scientific significance
- Legal requirements
- Identify objects to keep in the archive
- Official versions
- Criteria for what's in, what's not
- Who decides?
- Determine when to move objects to the archive
- Consequences of moving too early
- Excessive access from archive
- Consequences of moving too late
- Loss due to exposure in nonarchive
- How precise should timing be?
- Special considerations for selected objects
- Consequences of moving too early
- Determine how long to keep objects in the archive
- Consequences of keeping longer than necessary
- Classification
- Indefinite
- Start plus time
- Event plus time
- Define start ...
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