Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 154.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:07:34 +0100
From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@gslis.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.151 e-print archiving
Everybody who is interested in digital archiving should be aware that
two acronyms in this literature are frequently confused:
OAI: Open Archives Initiative, which defines a set of discovery metadata
that "exposes" archived materials to a harvester in a standard way so
they can be found;
OAIS: Open Archival Information System, which defines an underlying
system specification for the "trusted repository" that must securely
preserve the digitally archived objects. Wide acceptance of the OAIS
model and endorsement by OCLC and RLG has been crucial to these efforts
because it provides the roadmap for making a repository that can carry
the objects forward in an authentic way through time, even when software
and hardware change. Ideally, any e-print archive should comply with
both standards, unless it's assumed that its contents won't be of
interest for more than about five years.
Pat Galloway
GSLIS
University of Texas-Austin
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