The DataNet Federation Consortium uses a policy-based data management system to apply and enforce preservation requirements. This paper describes the Preservation Policy Toolkit developed by the consortium. In particular, the paper describes the infrastructure needed for preservation, presents examples of computer actionable forms of policies, and provides a generic template for designing actionable preservation policies.

Policy-based data management, preservation policies, computer actionable procedures

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Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation

School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill