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

Technological Threats