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Long-Term Preservation

Long-Term Preservation brings together redundant vaults, format migration and disaster copies.

ARCcommissionUnion-wide competence

The public purpose

Long-Term Preservation brings together redundant vaults, format migration and disaster copies.

Operational teams

ARC.03.01
Redundant vaults

Maintain independent archive copies that remain recoverable under defined failures.

ARC.03.02
Format migration

Migrate records into maintainable formats without losing meaning or evidential provenance.

ARC.03.03
Disaster copies

Maintain verified disaster copies with a tested recovery and receiving custodian.

Programme responsibilities

Assessment evidence
Redundant archive custody covenant; Archive format-migration finding; Disaster archive-copy record
Accountable output
Long-Term Preservation integrated programme finding
Programme custodian
Long-Term Preservation
Independent review
Union Ombudsman

Requests and referrals

SVC-045
Request public records

An accessible record release or reasoned restriction.

SVC-049
Create a public habitat library

A public knowledge service charter with offline access.

INT-010
Transfer a public archive on closure

A documented archival succession instrument.

Long-Term Preservation / division of work

ARC.03.01

Redundant vaults

Maintain independent archive copies that remain recoverable under defined failures.

Accountable output
Redundant archive custody covenant
ARC.03.02

Format migration

Migrate records into maintainable formats without losing meaning or evidential provenance.

Accountable output
Archive format-migration finding
ARC.03.03

Disaster copies

Maintain verified disaster copies with a tested recovery and receiving custodian.

Accountable output
Disaster archive-copy record

Authority for long-term preservation integrated programme finding

Subject-specific assessment
Nominally separate vaults share one critical control node
Shared legal framework
Archives, Libraries & Memory Commission / powers
Handling complaint
Union Ombudsman
Contested legal finding
Union Court of Justice

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Office output: Long-Term Preservation integrated programme finding