Categories of Archive Interactions
Independent
- No knowledge by one OAIS of standards implemented at another
Cooperating
- Potentially common submission standards, and common dissemination standards, but no common access. One archive may make Event Based Order requests for key data at the cooperating archive
Federated
- Access to all federated OAIS is provided through a common set of access aids that provide visibility into all participating OAISs. Global dissemination and ingest are options
Shared resources
- An OAIS in which Management has entered into agreements with other OAISs to share resources. This requires various standards internal to the archive (such as ingest-storage and access-storage interface standards), but does not alter the community’s view of the archive