OAIS | |
| Definition: | The Open Archive Information System (OAIS) Reference Model, an ISO standard that formally expresses the roles (producer, management, consumer, and implicitly archives), functions (common services, ingest, archival storage, data management, administration, preservation planning, and access), and content (submission information package, archival information collection, archival information package, and dissemination information package) of an archive. It was approved as an ISO standard in 2003. OAIS is undergoing a five-year review in 2007. |
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| At ICPSR: | The digital preservation policies program, system, and function are being developed in conformance with OAIS. |
| Source: | OAIS (ISO 14721: 2003). The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) of NASA coordinated the development of OAIS. The final version of OAIS produced by CCSDS before OAIS became an ISO standard was CCSDS 650.0-B-1. This is the version that is often cited and referenced because it is in the public domain. OAIS is an extensive document filled with descriptions and examples of additional concepts. These are the concepts most often used at ICPSR and defined in this glossary. |
| Date added: | April 6, 2007 |
| Last updated: | June 18, 2007 |
| Keywords: | digital preservation, OAIS |
