Modelling OAIS Compliance for Disaggregated Preservation Services

MASTERARBEIT Digital Preservation Preservation Planning in the OAIS

Digital objects have become the dominant way that we create, shape, and exchange information. They form a central part of our economy, and are becoming increasingly important for a longer period of time. The evergrowing heterogeneity and complexity of digital object formats together with rapid technological changes turn the preservation of digital information into a pressing challenge. The chal...

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...

Long term preservation of product lifecycle metadata in OAIS archives

The product lifecycle spans from idea generation, design, manufacturing, and service to disposal. During all these phases, engineers use their knowledge to fulfill their tasks. If engineers retire or leave a company, their embodied knowledge also resigns. To circumvent such loss of important company’s intellectual property, and to enable traceability and reuse of product data in the future, the...

Analytical essay: The OAIS model and preservation planning