New material on DLF website -- SIP Specification Draft (fwd)

[Merrilee Proffitt]

If folks want to familiarize themselves with the concepts outlined by the 
OAIS, including the SIP, I suggest the following document.

http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf (see Appendix A, p. 43)

I think that the TEI could be one component of a SIP, or Submission 
Information Package, that would go to an Open Archival Information System, 
or an OAIS (according to the OAIS Referrence Model).  But because each 
community defines its own SIP, this is probably an area that the TEI as an 
organization needs to have some awareness and not an area where we need to 
set policy.

Best,

Merrilee

At 09:24 AM 1/7/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>SIP is definitely of interest if we are planning to discuss revising TEI
>metadata.
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> > Two new reports are now available from the DLF website.
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> > 1. Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information
> > Environment (December 2001). A report by William S. Brockman, Laura
> > Neumann, Carole L. Palmer, Tonyia J. Tidline
> > http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub104abst.html
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> > 2. Submission Information Package (SIP) Specification Version 1.0
> > DRAFT ? December 19, 2001 (December 2001). A draft proposal developed
> > by Harvard University Library as part of its Mellon e-journal
> > archiving project. http://www.diglib.org/preserve/harvardsip10.pdf
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> >
> > Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information
> > Environment http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub104abst.html). As the
> > scholarly information environment changes, so do the needs,
> > expectations, and behaviors of users. Assessing and responding to
> > those changes is essential for the academic library so that it may
> > continue in support of the scholarly mission. The authors of this
> > report have formally examined how humanities scholars conduct and
> > collate their research. The study was based on a small sample of
> > scholars; nonetheless, the results are powerfully suggestive of ways
> > in which academic libraries can adapt to and develop in a rapidly
> > changing environment. In particular, the findings emphasize how
> > important it is for libraries to chart their evolutionary course in
> > close consultation with scholarly user communities. This study results
> > from the fruitful cross-fertilization between the scholar concerned
> > with aspects of information science and the librarian concerned with
> > delivering operational information services.
> >
> >
> > Submission Information Package (SIP) Specification Version 1.0 DRAFT ?
> > December 19, 2001 http://www.diglib.org/preserve/harvardsip10.pdf The
> > purpose of the Harvard University E-Journal Archive is to preserve the
> > significant intellectual content of journals independent of the form
> > in which that content was originally delivered in order to assure that
> > this content will be available to the scholarly community for the
> > indefinite future. Functionally, the archive is designed to render
> > text and still images and other formats as practical with no
> > significant loss in intellectual content. The archive reserves the
> > right to freely manipulate the internal format of the manifestation
> > over time as long as the plain meaning of the intellectual content is
> > preserved. The framework for discussing the architecture and operation
> > of the archive is provided by the Open Archival Information System
> > (OAIS) Reference Model. Under the OAIS model, material from a content
> > provider is transmitted to the archive in a form called a Submission
> > Information Package (SIP). The format of the SIP acceptable to the
> > Harvard archive is described normatively by this specification.