title: M1.1 Report on Identification of Core Preservation Processes
abstract: This report documents EOSC EDEN ("Enhancing Digital preservation strategies at European and National level") Milestone 1.1 "Identification of Core Preservation Processes (CPPs) for WP2" by EOSC EDEN WP1 T1.2.
  
  A Core Preservation Process (CPP) is a specific action that every Trustworthy Digital Archive should undertake adequately - either directly or through its associated parties or services, in order to fulfill its digital preservation missions as evidenced in its preservation policy.
  
  The following assertions define the scope of CPPs:
  
  
  
  
  
  They focus on the operational activities required by digital preservation (understood as covering short- to long-term preservation) and do not cover strategic/managerial digital preservation activities nor the whole list of activities of a generic information management system, including  secure IT infrastructures.
  
  
  
  
  Though digital preservation requires a deep knowledge of the properties, structure and possible uses of digital objects, which can be domain or discipline specific, the scope of CPP is limited to generic processes that take place in general when performing digital preservation regardless of specific content, domain or discipline.
  
  
  
  The list of CPPs and their description are established by a group of digital preservation practitioners. In addition, consensus within the digital preservation community about this list will be evidenced by references to prominent maturity models, self-assessment, and certification frameworks used by said community.
  
  CPPs are described as a sequence of implementable steps, either by humans or by automation.
  
  This publication contains the following parts:
  
  
  
  M1.1 Report on Identification of Core Preservation Processes: Design, Guidance and Summary of Findings
  
  Annex Part 1 - Template and Glossary:
  
  
  
  CPP Template
  
  Glossary
  
  
  
  Annex Part 2 - CPP Descriptions:
  
  
  
  CPP-001 Checksum Generation and Recording
  
  CPP-002 Checksum Validation
  
  CPP-003 Integrity Checking
  
  CPP-004 Data Corruption Management
  
  CPP-005 Identifier Management
  
  CPP-006 AIP Batch Export
  
  CPP-007 Virus Scanning
  
  CPP-008 File Format Identification 
  
  CPP-009 Metadata Extraction 
  
  CPP-010 File Format Validation 
  
  CPP-011 Replication 
  
  CPP-012 Risk Mitigation 
  
  CPP-013 Object Management Reporting 
  
  CPP-014 File Migration 
  
  CPP-015 Emulation and Rendering Tools 
  
  CPP-016 Metadata Ingest and Management 
  
  CPP-017 Disposal 
  
  CPP-018 Community Watch 
  
  CPP-019 Data Quality Assessment 
  
  CPP-020 Rights Management 
  
  CPP-021 AIP Versioning
  
  CPP-022 Significant Properties Definition 
  
  CPP-023 Risk Definition and Extraction 
  
  CPP-024 Enabling Discovery 
  
  CPP-025 Enabling Access 
  
  CPP-026 File Normalisation 
  
  CPP-027 File Repair 
  
  CPP-028 Creation of Derivatives 
  
  CPP-029 Ingest 
  
  CPP-030 Refreshment