Demystifying Digital Preservation Risk with CHARM: What, Where, How?

These slides were produced for an OPF webinar on the CHARM model. The session explored how the nature and complexity of digital preservation risk is demystified through the CHARM toolkit and its deep dive into digital preservation risk. The presentation focuses in particular on the detail of the CHARM Reference Model. It introduces CHARM’s definition of digital preservation, to demonstrate how this forms the foundations for a conceptual, meaningful and useful definition of the concept of digital preservation risk and associated target values. It then explores how this definition – and associated models – were used to establish a landscape, abstract model of risk sources in digital preservation. The presentation also includes an overview of how CHARM concepts, models, and vocabulary can be used in practice to develop secenario-based risk assessments with characterised risk statements.