Please find below a selected list of recommended supplementary reading material:

DPC online handbook (see also their annotated reading recommendations). Available at: http://handbook.dpconline.org/organisational-activities/acquisition-and-appraisal

Dearstyne, B. W.(1987). What is the Use of Archives. A Challenge for the Profession. In: Armerican Archivist. Vol. 50. http://www2.archivists.org/gpas/curriculum/appraisal-acquisition#.V6t-55OLT6A

Falcao, P. (2010). Developing a Risk Assessment Tool for the Conservation of Software-based Artworks (Doctoral dissertation, HKB).

Harvey, R. (2007) Instalment on “Appraisal and Selection”. In DCC Digital Curation manual. Available at: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/resource/curation-manual/chapters/appraisal-and-selection/appraisal-and-selection.pdf

Higgins, S. (2008) The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model. Available at: http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/69

Huys F. (2011) The Art ist Is Involved! Documenting Complex Works of Art in Cooperation with the Artist, P105-118. In Inside Installations. Theory and Practice in the Care of Complex Artworks edited by Tatja Scholte and Glenn Wharton. Amsterdam University Press, 2011. Available at:http://www.oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=467012

LTDP Working Group (2012) LTDP Earth Observation Guidelines (2012). Available at:http://earth.esa.int/gscb/ltdp/EuropeanLTDPCommonGuidelines_Issue2.0.pdf

McHugh, A., Innocenti, P., Ross, S. (2008). “Assessing risks to digital cultural heritage with DRAMBORA”. International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums (CIDOC) 2008, Athens, Greece, 15–18 September 2008.

National archive guidelines available at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/manage-information/selection-and-transfer/appraising-records/  and http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/what-is-appraisal.pdf

Public Records Office Management, appraisal and preservation of electronic records, Vol 1: Principles, and Vol 2 Procedures, (PRO 1999). Available at: http://www.pro.gov.uk/recordsmanagement/eros/guidelines

Planning for the Archival Profession: A Report of the SAA Task Force on Goals and Priorities (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1986), 8. Available at: http://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.50.1.572q383767657258

Risse, T., & Peters, W. (2012, April) ARCOMEM: from collect-all ARchives to COmmunity MEMories. In Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web (pp. 275-278). ACM

Ross, S. (2012) Digital preservation, archival science and methodological foundations for digital libraries. Available at: http://www.gallbladder-research.org/media/media_113621_en.pdf

Stamatelatos, M. (2000). Probabilistic Risk Assessment: What Is It And Why Is It Worth Performing It?. NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, 4(05), 00.

Thomer, Andrea. Data Curation Lifecycles and Tools. In: Weber, N.M., Thomer, A.K., Hu, X., Chu, S., & Downie, J.S. (2015). Data Curation Institute: University of Hong Kong. February, 25-27. Available at: https://akthom.gitbooks.io/hkdcws/content/Day_1/Day_1_Lectures/Book/Day_1_Lecture_DC_LifeCycles.html