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Enum: PreservationLevelValue

Common preservation level tiers indicating the degree of preservation

commitment. These are not from PREMIS directly but represent common

practice in digital preservation.

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URI: valuesets:PreservationLevelValue

Permissible Values

Value Title Meaning Description
BIT_LEVEL Bit-level Preservation Ensures the exact bit sequence is maintained. Includes fixity checks
and secure storage but no format migration or access provision.
LOGICAL_PRESERVATION Logical Preservation Maintains the ability to render or use the content. May include
format migration to ensure long-term accessibility.
SEMANTIC_PRESERVATION Semantic Preservation Preserves the meaning and context of content, including relationships
between objects and their intellectual context.
FULL_PRESERVATION Full Preservation Comprehensive preservation including all aspects: bit-level integrity,
format migration, semantic context, and provenance tracking.

See Also

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://w3id.org/linkml/valuesets

LinkML Source

name: PreservationLevelValue
instantiates:
- valuesets_meta:ValueSetEnumDefinition
description: 'Common preservation level tiers indicating the degree of preservation

  commitment. These are not from PREMIS directly but represent common

  practice in digital preservation.

  '
title: Preservation Level Value
from_schema: https://w3id.org/linkml/valuesets
see_also:
- https://ndsa.org/publications/levels-of-digital-preservation/
contributors:
- orcid:0000-0002-6601-2165
- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
status: DRAFT
rank: 1000
permissible_values:
  BIT_LEVEL:
    text: BIT_LEVEL
    description: 'Ensures the exact bit sequence is maintained. Includes fixity checks

      and secure storage but no format migration or access provision.

      '
    title: Bit-level Preservation
    aliases:
    - Level 1
  LOGICAL_PRESERVATION:
    text: LOGICAL_PRESERVATION
    description: 'Maintains the ability to render or use the content. May include

      format migration to ensure long-term accessibility.

      '
    title: Logical Preservation
    aliases:
    - Level 2
    - Content Preservation
  SEMANTIC_PRESERVATION:
    text: SEMANTIC_PRESERVATION
    description: 'Preserves the meaning and context of content, including relationships

      between objects and their intellectual context.

      '
    title: Semantic Preservation
    aliases:
    - Level 3
    - Full Preservation
  FULL_PRESERVATION:
    text: FULL_PRESERVATION
    description: 'Comprehensive preservation including all aspects: bit-level integrity,

      format migration, semantic context, and provenance tracking.

      '
    title: Full Preservation
    aliases:
    - Level 4