Purpose
Framework for understanding and applying concepts needed for long-term digital information preservation
- Long-term is long enough to be concerned about changing technologies
- Starting point for model addressing non-digital information
Provides set of minimal responsibilities to distinguish an OAIS from other uses of ‘archive’
Framework for comparing architectures and operations of existing and future archives
Basis for comparing data models of digital information preserved by archives, including their changes over time
Expands consensus on elements and processes needed for long-term digital information preservation
Guides the identification of future OAIS standards
Does NOT specify any implementation