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== Significant characteristics by media type == | == Significant characteristics by media type == | ||
| − | *[[Significant | + | *[[Significant characteristics of audio files|audio]] |
| − | *[[Significant | + | *[[Significant characteristics of presentation files|presentation files]] |
| − | *[[Significant | + | *[[Significant characteristics of raster images|raster images]] |
| − | *[[Significant | + | *[[Significant characteristics of spreadsheets|spreadsheets]] |
| − | *[[Significant | + | *[[Significant characteristics of text files|text]] |
| − | *[[Significant | + | *[[Significant characteristics of email|email]] |
| − | *[[Significant | + | *[[Significant characteristics of vector images|vector images]] |
| + | *[[Significant characteristics of video files|video]] | ||
| + | *[[Significant_characteristics_of_websites|websites]] | ||
| + | *[[Significant characteristics of word processing files|word processing files]] | ||
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== Definitions == | == Definitions == | ||
| − | "Significant characteristics | + | Within the Archivematica project, the term 'significant properties' has been superseded by 'significant characteristics' because it has a wider scope, see [http://www.planets-project.eu/docs/papers/Dappert_SignificantCharacteristics_ECDL2009.pdf Significance is in the Eye of the Stakeholder] (Dappert and Farquhar, 2009). It is also more consistent with the terminology used in the [http://planetarium.hki.uni-koeln.de/planets_cms/about-xcl eXtensible Characterization Language]. However, in most instances the two terms ('significant properties' or 'significant characteristics') are largely synonymous and best defined by Andrew Wilson: |
| + | * "Significant properties: the characteristics of digital objects that must be preserved over time in order to ensure the continued accessibility, usability, and meaning of the objects, and their capacity to be accepted as evidence of what they purport to record." [http://www.dpconline.org/docs/events/080407sigpropsWilson.pdf Significant Properties of Digital Objects, Andrew Wilson, National Archives of Australia, 2008, p. 15] | ||
| − | + | Other definitions: | |
| − | "Significant Properties: Those technical characteristics agreed by the archive or by the collection manager to be most important for preserving the digital object over time." [http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20050410120000/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/guideto/collmanagement/index.html Cedars Guide to: Digital Collection Management, 2002, p. 24] | + | * "Significant Properties: Those technical characteristics agreed by the archive or by the collection manager to be most important for preserving the digital object over time." [http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20050410120000/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/guideto/collmanagement/index.html Cedars Guide to: Digital Collection Management, 2002, p. 24] |
| − | + | * "Significant properties are those aspects of a digital record that must be preserved over time in order for it to remain accessible and meaningful." [http://www.significantproperties.org.uk/documents/wp33-propertiesreport-v1.pdf Framework for the definition of significant properties, Gareth Night, 2008 (Inspect Project document), p. 3] | |
| − | "Significant properties are those aspects of a digital record that must be preserved over time in order for it to remain accessible and meaningful." [http://www.significantproperties.org.uk/documents/wp33-propertiesreport-v1.pdf Framework for the definition of significant properties, Gareth Night, 2008 (Inspect Project document), p. 3] | + | * "Transformational Information Property: An Information Property whose preservation is regarded as being necessary but not sufficient to verify that any Non-Reversible Transformation has adequately reserved information content. This could be important as contributing to evidence about Authenticity. Such Information Properties will need to be associated with specific Representation Information, including Semantic Information, to denote how they are encoded and what they mean. (The term ‘significant property’, which has various definitions in the literature, is sometimes used in a way that is consistent with its being a Transformational Information Property)." [http://public.ccsds.org/sites/cwe/rids/Lists/CCSDS%206500P11/Attachments/650x0p11.pdf OAIS Draft Recommended Standard Pink Book, August 2009, p. 1-15] |
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| − | "Transformational Information Property: An Information Property whose preservation is regarded as being necessary but not sufficient to verify that any Non-Reversible Transformation has adequately reserved information content. This could be important as contributing to evidence about Authenticity. Such Information Properties will need to be associated with specific Representation Information, including Semantic Information, to denote how they are encoded and what they mean. (The term ‘significant property’, which has various definitions in the literature, is sometimes used in a way that is consistent with its being a Transformational Information Property)." [http://public.ccsds.org/sites/cwe/rids/Lists/CCSDS%206500P11/Attachments/650x0p11.pdf OAIS Draft Recommended Standard Pink Book, August 2009, p. 1-15] | ||
== Research == | == Research == | ||
| + | [http://www.significantproperties.org.uk/ InsPECT: (Investigating the Significant Properties of Electronic Content over Time)] | ||
| + | *[http://www.significantproperties.org.uk/documents/wp33-propertiesreport-v1.pdf Framework for the definition of significant properties, Gareth Night, 2008] | ||
[http://planetarium.hki.uni-koeln.de/planets_cms/about-xcl XCL - eXtensible Characterisation Language] | [http://planetarium.hki.uni-koeln.de/planets_cms/about-xcl XCL - eXtensible Characterisation Language] | ||
*[http://www.springerlink.com/content/c20150x260758r11/ Significant Characteristics to Abstract Content: Long Term Preservation of Information] | *[http://www.springerlink.com/content/c20150x260758r11/ Significant Characteristics to Abstract Content: Long Term Preservation of Information] | ||
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[http://www.planets-project.eu/ PLANETS (Preservation and Long-Term Access through Networked Services)] | [http://www.planets-project.eu/ PLANETS (Preservation and Long-Term Access through Networked Services)] | ||
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Other research | Other research | ||
*[http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/issue/view/7 Data Without Meaning: Establishing the Significant Properties of Digital Research, Gareth Night, Maureen Pennock, The International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009] | *[http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/issue/view/7 Data Without Meaning: Establishing the Significant Properties of Digital Research, Gareth Night, Maureen Pennock, The International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009] | ||
| − | *[http:// | + | *[http://fclaweb.fcla.edu/uploads/Lydia%20Motyka/FDA_documentation/documentMD.pdf Document Metadata: Document Technical Metadata for Digital Preservation, Florida Digital Archive and Harvard University Library, 2009] |
Latest revision as of 16:33, 11 February 2020
Main Page > Documentation > Format policies > Significant characteristics
This page is no longer being maintained and may contain inaccurate information. Please see the Archivematica documentation for up-to-date information.
Significant characteristics by media type[edit]
- audio
- presentation files
- raster images
- spreadsheets
- text
- vector images
- video
- websites
- word processing files
Definitions[edit]
Within the Archivematica project, the term 'significant properties' has been superseded by 'significant characteristics' because it has a wider scope, see Significance is in the Eye of the Stakeholder (Dappert and Farquhar, 2009). It is also more consistent with the terminology used in the eXtensible Characterization Language. However, in most instances the two terms ('significant properties' or 'significant characteristics') are largely synonymous and best defined by Andrew Wilson:
- "Significant properties: the characteristics of digital objects that must be preserved over time in order to ensure the continued accessibility, usability, and meaning of the objects, and their capacity to be accepted as evidence of what they purport to record." Significant Properties of Digital Objects, Andrew Wilson, National Archives of Australia, 2008, p. 15
Other definitions:
- "Significant Properties: Those technical characteristics agreed by the archive or by the collection manager to be most important for preserving the digital object over time." Cedars Guide to: Digital Collection Management, 2002, p. 24
- "Significant properties are those aspects of a digital record that must be preserved over time in order for it to remain accessible and meaningful." Framework for the definition of significant properties, Gareth Night, 2008 (Inspect Project document), p. 3
- "Transformational Information Property: An Information Property whose preservation is regarded as being necessary but not sufficient to verify that any Non-Reversible Transformation has adequately reserved information content. This could be important as contributing to evidence about Authenticity. Such Information Properties will need to be associated with specific Representation Information, including Semantic Information, to denote how they are encoded and what they mean. (The term ‘significant property’, which has various definitions in the literature, is sometimes used in a way that is consistent with its being a Transformational Information Property)." OAIS Draft Recommended Standard Pink Book, August 2009, p. 1-15
Research[edit]
InsPECT: (Investigating the Significant Properties of Electronic Content over Time)
XCL - eXtensible Characterisation Language
PLANETS (Preservation and Long-Term Access through Networked Services)
- The Significant Properties of Vector Images. Mike Coyne, David Duce, Bob Hopgood, George Mallen, Mike Stapleton 2007
- The Significant Properties of Moving Images, Mike Coyne and Mike Stapleton, 2008
- Significant Properties of e-Learning Objects (SPeLOs), Kevin Ashley, Richard Davis, Ed Pinsent, 2008
Other research
- Data Without Meaning: Establishing the Significant Properties of Digital Research, Gareth Night, Maureen Pennock, The International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009
- Document Metadata: Document Technical Metadata for Digital Preservation, Florida Digital Archive and Harvard University Library, 2009