INFORM measurement system
*Measures threats to preservation
*Defines process and units
*Digital format specifications
*Dependencies
*Software and hardware dependencies
*Associated organizations
- recognizing and assess risks.
preservation planning == a response to known and unknown risks posed by the promise to provide access over time to digital objects.

Risk-based assessment methods - widely used in software project management, security threat analysis and business planning.
I used - my expertise in security threat analysis models,
a number of project management risk-based methods,
ideas developed by Cornell University’s Prism project,
various other papers

– identified about 70 risk factors.
DRM, encryption, lost commercial viability, unique support across industry

Transition – it is a combination of opinion polling (as in politics) and risk aversion (as in investing)