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Preservation Assessment Process: Areas for Improvement
•Weighting of sustainability factors in Format Score Matrix (?)
•Addition of multiple MIME type mappings
•Capability to assess complex, compound objects
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In devising the Format Score Matrix, none of the factors are weighted. We are still not sure how to effectively do that; something to investigate and test in future iterations of the method

A second area identified as a need for improvement is to add multiple MIME type mappings, because for some file types there is more than one possible MIME type. Need a way to resolve this ambiguity with some authority because it could affect the status assigned to the file further downstream in the assessment process.

Current method is designed to assess the preservability of individual files, not complex or compound objects. Future methods should have the capability to test for the integrity of compound objects.