ICPSR meets OAIS: applying the OAIS reference model to the social science archive context

De - mystifying OAIS compliance : Benefits and challenges of mapping the OAIS reference model to the GESIS Data

Since its initial publication over a decade ago, the OAIS Reference Model, its concepts and terminology, have become essential to the digital preservation discourse. In this discourse, the topos – or myth – of “OAIS compliance” continues to play a central role as archives and repositories seek to demonstrate their fitness for the challenge of digital preservation. After briefly considering what...

Preservation Planning in the OAIS Model

The OAIS model has gained widespread acceptance as the fundamental design reference model for an archival system by the digital library community. One of its core entities is Preservation Planning, for which central functional entities are given yet without every detail breaking down into activities requirements. The Planets Preservation Planning approach addresses this by providing a way to ma...

Creating a Framework for Applying OAIS to Distributed Digital Preservation

This paper describes work being done towards a Framework for Applying the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) to Distributed Digital Preservation (DDP). Such a Framework will be helpful for future analyses and/or audits of repositories that are performing digital preservation in highly distributed ways. A great deal of work has already been accomplished toward the Fra...

Analytical essay: The OAIS model and preservation planning

The Information Culture Challenge: Moving Beyond OAIS

One of the major challenges involved in digital preservation is to understand what the problem of preserving digital objects is in all of its diverse, idiosyncratic instantiations, rather than to look for uniform, technically feasible, economically sustainable, and standard-compliant solutions. We argue that by using a situated, descriptive approach to the investigation of actual environments w...