What are the content appraisal at scale practices that are most useful?

Question

What content appraisal and collection policies are currently being used for evaluating collections at scale? How are libraries, archives, and museums deciding to collect large quantities of data for preservation? Are data usage reports influencing content collection and appraisal decisions? 

 

Answer 1

Project Abaca is looking at methods for determining in a semi-automated fashion the sensitivities in documents in order to determine what can be declassified or opened to public access http://projectabaca.wordpress.com/. It is a jiont project between The National Archives (UK) and the University of Glasgow.