“Ingest Standards…in OAIS Model”

• Focus on sufficiency of Representation Information

  • Needed to free information from underlying media
  • Preserve against technology obsolescence
  • “Bit-stream can be preserved indefinitely”

• Two stage/step process of ingest

  • Separation of data from the medium
  • Map to a bit-stream (I.e., make the data object part of the Archival Information Package)

• Follow this with preservation of the bit-stream in an archival store

• Form of data between 2 steps is called Underlying Abstract Form

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