- enable the building of information systems to provide access to durable, enduring and re-usable digital content
- straddle both the Web and enterprise system needs while minimizing complexity to enable widest possible use
- enable content owners to establish and enforce policies for trust and access to their content, and we will never require that they yield any rights to their content or pay any fee to anyone in order to use the software and practices we provide
- enable the use of best practices for the handling and curation of the content contained within information systems incorporating our software
- provide key technologies in free open source for all our goals
- ensure that the software we support is modular and can be easily integrated in many configurations to support information systems that satisfy the unique requirements of our community
- ensure the sustainability of the software and practices we enable, and that we will incorporate an evolutionary approach to them as a key design goal
- create an ecosystem of cooperating and collaborating projects to help enable making the world's information enduring and to sustain the required infrastructure
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