Purge Alerts
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Short summary of Best Practice:
The purge alert service should be used before information removal from archives.
Explain why is there a need for this Best Practice?
The CEOS purge alert service enables archivists to advise archives that data will be destroyed and offer these data to other archives before data destruction.
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Detailed Description of Best Practice
It sometimes happens that information is removed from an archive and destroyed. One reason can be that this information is no longer useful because it is available elsewhere with a higher quality. But another archive may be interested in retrieving this information because, for instance, it could not handle the higher quality information due to limited bandwidth. To make CEOS agencies aware that information is about to be removed, CEOS has set up the “purge alert” service. The purge alert service is available at: http://wgiss.ceos.org/purgealert/index.html.
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