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.