Preservation Planning

Lifecycle stage definition: Functions that support the DCC Lifecycle stage defined as "Plan for preservation throughout the curation lifecycle of digital material. This would include plans for management and administration of all curation lifecycle actions."

Lifecycle order: 3

Functions within this lifecycle stage

Function	Definition
Benefits	Tools that enable the identification and articulation of the benefits of preservation and curation.
Citation and Impact Tracking	Tools that support the citation of data and the tracking of the impact of usage of that data.
Content Profiling	Tools that build a profile of the characteristics of digital content, typically by combining or analysing a number of sources of information such as extracted metadata and file format identifications.
Costing	Tools that support the calculation or prediction of the cost of preservation or curation activities.
Data Management Planning	Tools that support the development of research data management plans and related activities.
Organisational Audit	Tools that that enable an audit of an organisation's capability with respect to preservation, typically relating to a maturity model
Planning	Tools that support the planning of preservation activities.
Policy	Tools that support the development and management of digital preservation policy.

Tools for this lifecycle stage

Tool	Function	Purpose
AIPscan	Planning Reporting	Repository-wide reporting for Archivematica and its Storage Service
AOR (Assessing Organisational Readiness)	Planning	Assessing Institutional Digital Assets: Self-assessment tool for describing institutional readiness and capabilities for digital asset management and digital preservation
Autopsy Digital Forensics	Appraisal Content Profiling De-Duplication Disk Imaging Forensic	Open source, free digital forensics tool
Brunnhilde	Metadata Extraction Content Profiling Appraisal	Siegfried-based characterization of directories and disk images
C3PO	Content Profiling Metadata Extraction	C3PO is a content profiling tool for visualization and preservation analysis
CARDIO	Planning Data Management Planning Organisational Audit	CARDIO is a benchmarking tool for data management strategy development
CMDP (Cost Model for Digital Preservation)	Costing	The Cost Model for Digital Preservation (CDMP) is a tool that calculates the present and future costs of three sets of activities associated with preservation of digital collections.
CTS (Core Trust Seal)	Organisational Audit	CoreTrustSeal offers to any interested data repository, certification based on the DSA–WDS Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements catalogue and procedures
Catalogue of Policy Elements	Policy	Supports creation of new preservation policies as well as planning and watch activities.
Cost of Inaction Calculator	Costing Planning	A calculator to analyze the Cost of Inaction of not digitizing/preserving audiovisual assets
Crazy-fast-image-scan	File Format Identification Content Profiling Forensic	A script to scan media very quickly to find out what kind of content it contains
D-Net Software Kit	Planning Data Management Planning Managing Active Research Data	Software Kit creates a network of repositories that share the infrastructure services necessary to process and provide access to digital content.
DMAOnline (Data Management Administration Online)	Data Management Planning Organisational Audit Planning	Provides a single dashboard view of how various departments contribute to RDM activities and how an institution is performing in terms of its compliance with policies
DMPTool	Planning Data Management Planning Managing Active Research Data	DMPTool is an online service to enable researchers to create data management plans now required by many funding agencies, and to receive tailored institutional guidance to help them in the process.
DMPonline	Planning Data Management Planning Managing Active Research Data Service	DMPonline is the DCC's data management planning tool.
DPBCT (Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit)	Benefits	A comprehensive toolkit to help practitioners and middle managers build business cases to fund digital preservation activities.
DPC RAM (Rapid Assessment Model)	Organisational Audit	A maturity modelling tool that has been designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization's digital preservation capability.
DPCMM (Digital Preservation Capability Maturity Model)	Organisational Audit Planning	Maturity / gap analysis model for digital preservation
DRAMBORA	Organisational Audit Planning	DRAMBORA offers a quantifiable insight into the severity of risks faced by repositories right now, and an effective means for reporting these.
Data Asset Framework	Planning Organisational Audit	The Data Asset Framework (formerly the Data Audit Framework) provides organisations with the means to identify, locate, describe and assess how they are managing their research data assets.
DataCite	Persistent Identification Managing Active Research Data Citation and Impact Tracking	DataCite works with data centres to assign persistent identifiers to datasets using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) infrastructure.
Demystify	Metadata Extraction Content Profiling De-Duplication	Format Identification Analysis and Reporting
Digital Preservation Management Tools and Techniques	Planning Policy	A toolset for developing standards compliant digital preservation management documentation on an array of topics
Digital Preservation Policy Framework	Policy	A Policy Framework template to help organizations develop a high-level policy document that explicitly states the scope, purpose, objectives, operating principles, and context of the organization's digital curation and preservation program.
EPADD	Metadata Processing Metadata Extraction Content Profiling Access Appraisal	ePADD is a software package developed by Stanford University's Special Collections & University Archives that supports archival processes around the appraisal, ingest, processing, discovery, and delivery of email archives.
Embedding Repositories Self-Assessment Tool	Organisational Audit Planning	Embedding Repositories Self-Assessment Tool is comprised of a series of questions designed to quantify the degree that a digital repository is ‘embedded’ within its institution – the extent to which both the organisation's research and its administrative culture recognise the repository’s value and take full advantage of its capacity.
FFAStrans	Metadata Extraction File Format Identification File Format Migration Quality Assurance Workflow Planning	Task automation engine, mostly used in audio and video visual content management.
Fq	Access Validation Binary & Hexidecimal Editing Discovery Repair Quality Assurance Policy File Format Identification File Recovery Forensic Metadata Extraction	Tool, language and decoders for working with binary data.
Goobi	Workflow OCR Planning Quality Assurance	Workflow Management Tool
HoliRisk	Policy Planning	HoliRisk is a framework and online tool to support the development of a risk assessment based on principles from ISO31000.
ImpactStory	Citation and Impact Tracking	ImpactStory (previously Total-Impact) allows researchers and organisations to gather a wide range of impact metrics about multiple forms of scholarly output.
KRDS (Keeping Research Data Safe) Benefits Analysis Toolkit	Costing Benefits	Benefits Analysis Toolkit guides users through a process of identifying, assessing, and communicating the benefits from investing resources in the curation and long-term preservation of research data.
Levels of Born-Digital Access	Access Organisational Audit Planning	A tiered set of recommendations that help guide organizations in the planning and implementation of born-digital access provisions.
MediaConch	File Format Identification Policy Validation	MediaConch is a file validation software.
Mendeley	Academic Social Networking Citation and Impact Tracking	Mendeley is a combination web service and desktop application that allows users to create, manage, and share collections of references.
NARA Preservation Planning Framework	Planning	NARA complete Preservation Plan collection for all their object types, requesting your interaction.
NDSA Levels of Preservation	Planning Organisational Audit	The "Levels of Digital Preservation" are a tiered set of recommendations for how organizations should begin to build or enhance their digital preservation activities.
OPD for RDM	Organisational Audit	An RDF based list of basic RDM infrastructure components to make this infrastructure more visible and easier to identify
OpenDOAR	Policy	OpenDOAR is a simple, web-based tool that guides repository administrators through the process of creating basic policies for the submission, re-use, and preservation of digital materials.
PLATO	Planning	Plato is a preservation-planning tool for organisations charged with safeguarding digital materials.
Perma.cc	Personal Archiving Citation and Impact Tracking	A tool that captures, stores, plays-back and provides a new URL for web citation. Built and maintained at the Harvard Law School Library.
RMCAS	Organisational Audit Planning	RMCAS is an assessment tool for organisations wishing to map their current records management infrastructure against community best-practice.
ReaderMeter	Citation and Impact Tracking	ReaderMeter is a web-based service that compiles readership information about scientific content to create an estimate of the content's community impact.
SCOUT	Planning	A brief description
TOMES (Transforming Online Mail with Embedded Semantics)	File Format Migration Content Profiling Metadata Processing Data capture and Deposit	A package of open source tools for handling the preservation of government email records
Tufts Submission-Agreement Builder Tool	Planning Data capture and Deposit	SABT is a web-based tool that guides records creators and records managers through the process of creating submission agreements, both for single transfers and for standing submissions.
Web Archive Discovery	Metadata Extraction File Format Identification Content Profiling Discovery	Indexing and discovery tools for web archives.
WebCite	Persistent Identification Web Capture Citation and Impact Tracking	WebCite is an on-demand web archiving service that takes snapshots of Internet-accessible digital objects at the behest of users, storing the data on their own servers and assigning unique identifiers to those instances of the material.
Yara	Forensic Content Profiling	YARA is a tool that allows the identification of files that match user-defined textual or binary patterns