Threats
Organisational Threats
Complexity Limitations
many factors conspiring to overwhelm resources
Organisational Change
Business changes or organisation no longer exists
Organisational Limits
Lack of awareness, business interest, financial resources, and/or skills.
Out of Band
Ignored because not a “recognised source of material for DP”.
Complexity Threats
Ephemeral Services
Services designed not to retain information
Lack of Metadata
e.g. Provenance/chain of custody, Versioning, Code-book (e.g. Database structure, spreadsheet column contents), IPR
Content Threats
Data Types/File-Formats
Software Obsolescence, lack of standards but also DRM