Expanding the concept of "Information Value"

Oliver, Kim, Ross (2008). Documentary genre and digital recordkeeping : red herring or a way forward?

I'm not sure about most of this paper but I certainly like the appraisal criteria. They could be valuable for assessing "information value".

Criteria for appraising digital information:

• Content -- comprehensiveness (covers a complete population)
• Content -- coverage (spatial area)
• Content -- growth (is it done growing)
• Content -- relationships (with exisitng documens)
• Content -- Reliability (accurate and authoritative)
• Content -- Significance
• Content -- Time
• Content -- Uniqueness
• Content -- Usability
• Contextual -- Documentation
• Contextual -- Provenance
• Contextual -- Significance of source
• Contextual -- Usage
• Evidence -- Accountability
• Evidence -- Artefact (evidence of way the org funcitoned)
• Evidence -- Authenticity (provides evidence of what it purports to be)
• Evidence -- Precedence (documentation of decisions)
• Operational -- Costs (for maintenance)
• Operational -- Collection (fit with existing policy)
• Operational -- Mission (fit with mission)
• Operational -- Replaceability (value of preservation vs. costs)
• Societal -- Ethics
• Societal -- Intrinsic value
• Societal -- Legal considerations
• Societal -- representativeness
• technical -- Functional (will behaviour be retained)
• Technical -- Integrity of records
• Technical -- Rights issues
• Technical -- Size of object/volume
• Technical -- Usability