Organizational and Regulatory Risks of Distributed Digital Preservation

The main aim of this study is to investigate the major organizational and regulatory risks in the context of distributed digital preservation in libraries and archives in particular, which will be referred to as memory institutions throughout this report. Furthermore, the study also aims to explore how the inter-organizational relationships emerged in the context of collaborative arrangements and with the use of third-party services are supported in terms of trust, considering the levels of vulnerability and threats to which the organizations involved may be exposed to.