Translations:Planning and Organizing/57/en

Here, it is important to stress that, given the nature of the material the CSOs documenting mass human rights violations are working with, organizations often wish to preserve everything, as all the material they have collected seems important and valuable. In some situations, this might indeed be the case. However, preserving all the source material is often neither necessary, reasonable, nor sustainable. For example, a careful assessment might uncover that some of the material is already preserved in another archive, does not hold any added value, came from a compromised source, etc. Further, it could also be due, for example, to the amount or size of the source material or that long-term preservation of it all might be simply unsustainable, as preservation costs might be too high or organizational or technical capacities might not allow it.