A high-level policy that defines an organization's commitment to digital preservation is an essential component of an effective and sustainable program. Developing an explicit digital preservation policy is a requirement for complying with prevailing community standards and practice (e.g., the TRAC requirements, the procedural accountability requirement of a trusted digital repository, but not every organization should have to develop their policy froim scratch.
Here's a proposed model document for an organization's digital preservation policy framework to use as a starting point and some examples of digital preservation policies that have been developed by organizations:
And some digital preservation strategies developed by organizations:
And some other community sources pertaining to digital preservation policies:
And other policy-related sources:
One consideration in reviewing community documentation is that the term policy is used in a variety of ways and might reflect one of several levels, as illustrated in the following diagram (McGovern 2008):
Several digital preservation research and development projects focus on developing machine-actionable policies using varying approaches:
Please add to these resources and/or share your own policies.