Translations:Basiszorgrichtlijnen/58/en

• Your digital archive and/or collection will be in good condition. This means that your archives and collections will remain physically intact, usable and able to be consulted, with no loss of essential functions or meaning.
• An error-free back-up is made at regular intervals, and is accompanied by a description of the method and frequency, while the recovery of the data has also been tested.
• As far as possible efforts are made to avoid foreseeable damage by taking into account the following factors:
  • Focus points concerning analogue archive and collections also apply to hardware and physical carriers
  • The following, among other things, applies specifically to data:
    • handling and preservation (e.g. the accidental deletion, moving or changing of files, computer crashes, data loss during data migrations etc.)
    • intentional harmful use of information technology by third parties (e.g. viruses, hacking etc.);
    • obsolescence of, for example, hardware, interfaces, operating programmes, software, carriers, file formats and codecs
    • loss of data as a result of inherent physical decline in the data carriers (so-called bitrot);
• loss of data as a result of successive migrations of digital files or systems, in particular generation loss of digital photo, video and audio material due to the use of lossy compression.