Appraisal and Selection for Digital Curation

Based on traditional archival appraisal theories and existing appraisal/selection policies in libraries, archives, museums, social science and science data centers, this paper presents a generic appraisal/selection framework for digital curation and discusses how it can be implemented. The framework includes three selection methods: statistical sampling, risk analysis and appraisal. Details about the appraisal method are illustrated, including the objects of appraisal, appraisal criteria and appraisal decisions. Received 24 September 2013 | Revision received 23 July 2014 | Accepted 24 July 2014 Correspondence should be addressed to Jinfang Niu, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., CIS 2021, Tampa, FL 33620. Email: [email protected] The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of digital curation across a wide range of sectors. The IJDC is published by the University of Edinburgh on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre. ISSN: 1746-8256. URL: http://www.ijdc.net/ Copyright rests with the authors. This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution (UK) Licence, version 2.0. For details please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ International Journal of Digital Curation 2014, Vol. 9, Iss. 2, 65–82 65 http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v9i2.272 DOI: 10.2218/ijdc.v9i2.272 66 | Appraisal and Selection for Digital Curation doi:10.2218/ijdc.v9i2.272