Policy Issue Working Space

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This page is intended as rough working space to post ideas and issues about policy development

Lowest level of manageable object -what is the lowest level of digital entity that we can meaningfully manipulate and apply metadata to?
 * file or bitstream?

Preservation Level Commitment

SIP requirements
 * Public
 * VanDocs
 * city recordkeeping systems outside of VanDocs
 * Private
 * formats
 * accompanying metadata
 * packaging

Metadata locations
 * what is necessary and sufficient metadata to include in AIP? I.e., Should SIP include all metadata, or should some metadata only be present in the Data Management Database (DMDB)?
 * Consider:
 * What is necessary metadata to be able to render the content
 * Problems with update conflicts