“Persistent Archives for Data Collections”

• Paper will be presented by author (Reagan Moore) in plenary

• Focus is on data and information models

  • Needed to manage and federate collections, and
  • Migrate collections forward in time

• Persistent archive strategy

  • Use information model for describing data
  • Distinguish context needed for data set, for collections, and for user interfaces to collection
  • Support interoperability across heterogeneous software/hardware systems
    • Decouple collections from access mechanisms

• Ingest methodology/standards can be based on emerging digital library standards (example - XML DTDs)

  • Proprietary formats must be transformed to migrateable standards during ingestion

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