Digital preservation fulfills a critical role in the digital continuity of individual, institutional, and cultural memory. It is important for archival stewards and stakeholders to know whether or not those activities have been successful in order to deploy finite programmatic resources most relevantly, effectively, and productively. While preservation trustworthiness has been subject to extensive examination, the complementary evaluative quality of success has received less critical consideration. This study looks at how the preservation community ascribes meaning to the concept of success through attitudinal norms tacitly embedded in domain discourse. These are recovered through qualitative content analysis of selected preservation policy statements, which act as public affirmations of the archival service “contract” regarding stewardship intention and reciprocal stakeholder expectation. Success is a measure of the alignment between anticipated outcomes and actual preserved state resulting from intentional intervention. Communicological critique of the norms illuminates why the measure of success remains problematic and suggests avenues by which metrical practice can be augmented to enhance its evaluative power. This includes repositioning evaluative prerogatives to incorporate concern for the persistence not only of authentic digital information objects but also legitimate communicative experiences.

数字保存在个人，机构和文化记忆的数字连续性中扮演着至关重要的角色。对于档案管理员和利益相关者而言，重要的是要知道这些活动是否成功，以便最相关，有效和高效地部署有限的计划资源。尽管对保存的可信赖性已进行了广泛的研究，但对成功的补充评估质量却没有那么紧要的考虑。这项研究着眼于保存界如何通过默认嵌入领域话语中的态度规范将成功的概念赋予意义。这些内容是通过对选定保存策略声明的定性内容分析来恢复的，在管理意图和利益相关者互惠互利的前提下，该文件可作为对档案服务“合同”的公开肯定。成功是对预期结果与故意干预导致的实际保存状态之间一致性的一种度量。对规范的传播学批判阐明了为何成功衡量仍然存在问题，并提出了可以扩大度量实践以增强其评估能力的途径。这包括重新定位评估特权，以纳入对真实数字信息对象的持久性以及合法交流经验的持久性的关注。对规范的传播学批判阐明了为何成功衡量仍然存在问题，并提出了可以扩大度量实践以增强其评估能力的途径。这包括重新定位评估特权，以纳入对真实数字信息对象的持久性以及合法交流经验的持久性的关注。对规范的传播学批判阐明了为何成功衡量仍然存在问题，并提出了可以扩大度量实践以增强其评估能力的途径。这包括重新定位评估特权，以纳入对真实数字信息对象的持久性以及合法交流经验的持久性的关注。