title: DEAL WITH CONFLICT,  CAPTURE THE RELATIONSHIP:  THE CASE OF DIGITAL OBJECT PROPERTIES
creators: Angela Dappert
abstract: Properties of digital objects play a central role in digital
  preservation. All key preservation services are linked via
  a common understanding of the properties which describe
  the digital objects in a repository's care. Unfortunately,
  different services deal with properties on
  sometimes different levels of description. While, for example,
  a preservation characterization service may extract
  the fontSize of a string, the preservation planning
  service may require the preservation of the text’s formatting.
  Additionally, a value for the same property may be
  obtained in various ways, sometimes resulting in different
  observed values. Furthermore, properties are not always
  equally applicable across different file formats.
  This report investigates where in these three situations
  relationships between properties need to be defined
  to overcome possible misalignments.
  The analysis was based on observations gained during
  a case study of the nature of the properties that are captured
  in different institutions’ preservation requirements
  and those of use in Planets preservation services.