NDSA:DDP OAIS Frameworks

Action Team Scope & Purpose

The Educopia Institute and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance seek to convene a working group with the broader digital preservation community to develop an approach for implementing the OAIS Reference Model and the derived Trustworthy Repository Auditing & Certification metrics (TRAC) in a distributed digital preservation (DDP) environment.

Read the full Statement of Purpose.

Actvities Proposed

We propose to Describe a Framework for Applying the OAIS Reference Model to Distributed Digital Preservation through the following steps:

White Paper & Recruitment

In 2012 the Distributed Framework Coordinator (Matt Schultz), in conjunction with various NDSA Working Group participants and contributors from the broader digital preservation community, will perform a gap analysis between OAIS Section 6: Archive Interoperability and various known DDP uses cases to produce a two-to-five page white paper.

In parallel with the drafting of this white paper the Distributed Framework Coordinator in partnership with various core contributors will begin collaboratively identifying upcoming digital preservation conferences, events, and relevant practitioners/groups to engage with.

Core contributors to this collaborative work will then seek opportunities at one or more of these events to form recommendations and garner feedback on the white paper findings. These events will be key opportunities to solidify Collaborative Teams to begin drafting a final framework. Previous discussions have considered the value of submission to the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), in a form similar to the OAIS supplemental Producer-Archive Interface Methodology Abstract Standard (PAIMAS). See here: Producer-Archive Interface Methodology Abstract Standard (PAIMAS). But further discussions of document forms and hosting agencies are needed.

The white paper will cover the following items:

Production

In 2012-2013, the Distributed Framework Coordinator in partnership with various Collaborative Teams will help lead the effort to draft a semi-final Framework. This work will be accomplished through a combination of event-hosted meetings and virtual collaboration (video/teleconferences, wikis, listservs, Google Docs, etc.). The Collaborative Teams will aim to synthesize the Framework and make it available for public comment, likely no later than December 2013. At the close of the public comment period, the Distributed Framework Coordinator and the Collaborative Teams will finalize the framework.

Dissemination

In 2013, upon completion of the Framework the document will be broadly promoted through targeted announcements on listservs, blogs, and newsletters. Its authors will produce at least one peer-reviewed article on the process of creating the Framework. The team will host a meeting on Distributed Digital Preservation that will highlight existing efforts and encourage the development of new distributed digital preservation efforts.

Gap Analysis & Use Cases

See here for a wiki page devoted to specific distributed digital preservation uses cases and identifying gaps between them and OAIS (specifically OAIS Section 6: Archive Interoperability) related to bridging of terminology & concepts, application of functional areas, and/or roles & responsibilities, etc.