Stanford Digital Repository
unknown
5
minimal

low
4
medium

high
Quality Status
Policy Status
Format Score

acceptable
2
1
3

approved
0
From Quality to Policy
The resulting Format Score is matched to a corresponding Preservation Quality Value and assigned a Policy Status.

The idea here is to apply qualitative terminology to assist in our understanding of and communication about the relative prognosis for the file or a collection of files. Such terminology can be useful in contract specifications, determination of service level commitments and so on.