The Open Archival Information System Reference Model

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Notes

1. Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) (CCSDS 650.0-B-1, Washington, DC: CCSDS, 2002), available: http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf. It has also been adopted as an ISO standard (ISO 14721:2003).

2. The standard defines ingest as “the OAIS entity that contains the services and functions that accept Submission Information Packages from Producers, prepares Archival Information Packages for storage, and ensures that Archival Information Packages and their supporting Descriptive Information become established within the OAIS.” Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System, p. 1–11.

3. Ibid., p. 1–3.

4. Ibid., p. 1–8.

5. Ibid., p. 1.

6. Ibid., p. 1–11.

7. CCSDS standards routinely undergo a five-year review, and the process is now complete. Changes included “numerous small clarifications … [including] improved treatments of Authenticity, Information Properties and a new PDI [Preservation Description Information] category for Access Rights.” The revised version will be available by the end of 2009.

8. Similar meetings were also held in Europe.

9. Ibid., §1.6 (p. 1–4 & 1–5).

10. Ibid., p. 1–7.

11. Ibid.

12. Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, Producer-Archive Interface Methodology Abstract Standard (CCSDS 651.0-B-1, Washington, DC: CCSDS, 2004), available: http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/651x0b1.pdf. This, too, has been adopted as an ISO standard (ISO 20652:2006).

13. For further information about METS, see http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/; for further information about PREMIS, see http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/.

14. Trusted Repositories Audit & Certification: Audit and Checklist (Chicago: Center for Research Libraries and Dublin, OH: OCLC, 2007), available: http://www.crl.edu/PDF/trac.pdf.