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Great job really digging into the resources they can make use of and working from that. It’s often challenging to get into that level of specificity so kudos on getting there.
From your storage points, it sounds like one of the challenges in all of this is about intellectual control. That is, just even having an overall sense of what exactly is the content that they need to be focused on preserving. That comes through in your metadata point too. Having an inventory and a process for maintaining it is really huge. So I think moving into the more intentional approach and system you are proposing here would be really critical. It’s hard to be confident about preservation when it’s not entirely clear what is being preserved.