Archive Cooperation
Users of multiple OAIS archives have reasons to wish for some uniformity or cooperation among the OAISs.
Consumers
- Common finding aids to aid in locating information over several OAIS archives
- Common Package Descriptor schema for access
- Common DIP schema for dissemination, or a single global access site.
Producers
- common SIP schema for submission to different archives
- a single depository for all their products.
Managers
- Cost reduction through sharing of expensive hardware increasing the uniformity and quality of user interactions with the OAIS