Ann Hägerfors

Business continuity planning methodology

– The purpose of this paper is to present a multi‐usable business continuity planning methodology. It comprises business continuity planning on the organizational and departmental levels., – The methodology has been developed, tested and confirmed in three comprehensive cases. Senior management, IT managers and employees in the three case organizations have participated in this action research effort during the development, implementation or training on business continuity plans and planning., – The methodology has been tested and confirmed, and is suitable for explaining business continuity planning to senior managements and employees in both public and private sector organizations., – The methodology description can be used for explaining the issues to senior managements and forms the foundation for a business continuity plan, which is part of an organizations IT‐ and information security program. It may also be used to explain business continuity planning to other staff in an organization. The methodology can also be used to model business continuity planning, as a basis for training planning, and as support in different training contexts to achieve individual and organizational learning on business continuity plans and activities., – The methodology of using a staircase or capability maturity model is a commonly used concept and can be adapted to any organization.

Towards a Definition of Digital Information Preservation Object

In this paper, we discuss long-term digital preservation from an information perspective, rather than the predominant approaches; the Archival and the Technocratic Approach. Information lives longer than people, tools (software) and organizations live. The Information Continuum Model provides support for this standpoint. However, we find that there exists no concept to support practical action in preservation from the information perspective. Existing concepts as information object, digital object, preservation object, electronic record, information package and significant properties are context dependent and focus on the object to be preserved, rather than preservation of information. Consequently, they are not suitable for realizing the information perspective in long-term digital preservation. The concept of Digital Information Preservation Object is therefore introduced and a tentative definition of the concept is presented.

Using Agents for Long-Term Digital Reservation the PROTAGE Project

This is a summary of the PROTAGE project and a proposal for creation of agents useful for automation of the vast amount of human interactions and work otherwise needed in digital preservation. The potential of the technology is illustrated with an agent for appraisal of an individual’s personal files.