Activities Checklist
These sections cover the details of “how” the program operates, and should help, when combined with the step-by-step guide, one assess how an organization can meet or work to meet various levels of the NDSA’s Levels of Digital Preservation.

Storage and Geographic Location

How many copies of your unique digital files do you store and maintain?

Where, geographically, are your files stored?

On what storage systems and media are your files stored?

How are these storage systems and media monitored?

File Fixity and Data Integrity
“File Fixity is a digital preservation term referring to the property of a digital file being fixed, or unchanged. ... Within the repository, fixity checking is used to ensure that digital files have not been affected by data rot or other digital preservation dangers.” (Wikipedia)
How often are files checked for file fixity?

What program do you use to check the file fixity of your digital content?

Information Security
Who has access to your stored digital files?

What is the chain of command in regard to specific roles and restrictions for read, write, delete, and move authority?

Metadata
Which guidelines, if any, do you follow in the preparation of your metadata?

Please list any controlled vocabularies you use, as well as the fields to which you apply them.

What types of metadata do you preserve? (options: Transformative, Administrative, Descriptive, and Technical)?

For each type of metadata that you preserve (from question above), please list how you do so.

File Formats
What formats do you preserve? Options: image; still image (jpg, tiff, etc.) image; moving image (mov, avi, wmv, etc.) ;audio (mp3, mp4, flac, etc.); text document (pdf, rtf, txt, doc[x], etc.)

How many of each file format do you currently preserve?

What are the naming conventions for your files? Please describe your typical conventions as well as any exceptions to the rules.

Do you have planned file format migrations? If so, please describe the plan, schedule, and software to be used for any necessary format migrations that can be perceived down the line