Administration Functions (2 of 2)
Develop Standards and Policies: is responsible for developing and maintaining the archive system data standards. These standards include format standards, documentation standards and the procedures to be followed during the ingestion process. It will also develop policies for Archival Storage hierarchy management and migration policies
Audit AIPs: is carried out by the archive data engineers and may also involve an outside committee (e.g., science and technical review). The audit process must verify that the quality of the data meets the requirements of the archive and the review committee
Interact with Management: receives and carries out Management policies. These policies include such things as the OAIS charter, scope, resource utilization guidelines, and pricing policies. It also provides OAIS performance information to Management