TheOpenArchivalInformationSystem(OAIS)ReferenceModelanditsUsage.pptVIP

19-Oct-2001 Digital Curation Seminar The Open Archival Information System OAIS Reference Model and its Usage Don Sawyer/NASA/GSFC Lou Reich/NASA/CSC David Giaretta/BNSC Patrick Mazal/CNES Claude Huc/CNES Michel Nonon-Latapie/CNES Nestor Peccia/ESA/ESOC October 9-12, 2002 Resulting Model Model targeted to several categories of reader Archive designers Archive users Archive managers, to clarify digital preservation issues and assist in securing appropriate resources Standards developers Already widely adopted as starting point in digital preservation efforts Digital libraries e.g., Netherlands National Library Traditional archives e.g., US National Archives Scientific data centers e.g., National Space Science Data Center Commercial Organizations e.g., Aerospace Industries Association preservation working team Reference Model Status Recently published as final CCSDS standard Blue Book available from: /documents/pdf/CCSDS-650.0-B-1.pdf In publication process as a final ISO standard: ISO 14721: 2002 Reference Model for anOpen Archival Information System Brief Technical Overview Open Archival Information System OAIS Open Reference Model standard s are developed using a public process and are freely available Information Any type of knowledge that can be exchanged Independent of the forms i.e., physical or digital used to represent the information Data are the representation forms of information Archival Information System Hardware, software, and people who are responsible for the acquisition, preservation and dissemination of the information Purpose, Scope, and Applicability Framework for understanding and applying concepts needed for long-term digital information preservation Long-term is long enough to be concerned about changing technologies Starting point for model addressing non-digital information Provides set of minimal responsibilities to distinguish an OAIS from other uses of ‘archive’ Framework for comparing architectures and operations