
Sharing, preservation and licensing: Data loss
Given the issues raised in the previous section, planning for preservation is essential.
The Open Archival Information Standard Reference Model (OAIS), orginally developed by space scientists, is the pre-eminent model for preservation planning and is an International Standards Organisation (ISO) standard.
The Digital Curation Lifecycle Model is useful for mapping planning preservation and curation activities into a lifecycle view of a digital object.
What term most accurately describes the data loss phenomenon described above?