Digital Preservation Audit overview

Audits digital preservation practices for cultural heritage collections -- verifying fixity checks (checksums, PREMIS metadata) on archived digital objects, assessing format obsolescence risk for file types in the repository, reviewing migration and normalization histories for fidelity loss, auditing access-control policies against institutional preservation mandates, evaluating storage replication and geographic distribution against NDSA Levels of Preservation, and testing disaster recovery procedures for digital asset repositories. Produces preservation health scorecard, format risk matrix, and remediation priority queue. Excludes digitization capture work.