ISO Archiving Standards - First International Workshop - Summary

26-27 October 1995

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Oxford, England

• Attendance
  
• Presentations
  
• Major Accomplishments
  
• Some Issues
  
• Schedule
  
• Action Items
  
• Working Modes
  

ATTENDANCE

PRESENTATIONS

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Terminology

Archive

A repository that intends to preserve information for access and uses by one or more designated communities (perhaps this is an 'information archive').

Preserve Information

The information is expected to be correctly and independently useable by the designated user community.

Independently Useable

Metadata must be sufficient for the data to be used by the designated user community (necessary but not sufficient).

Data

The representation forms of information.

Information

Any type of knowledge that can be exchanged.

Metadata

Data about other data.

Reference Model

See associated schematic.

Scope:

At the highest level of Reference Model, all analogue and digital data are included. Services will address digital information with possible pointers to analogue info.

data will be in a reproducible form.

SOME ISSUES

• Does the Reference Model include 'archives' that require a user to come into the archive (be on site logically or physically) to use archive services (i.e. exploit archive information)?

• How much and what types of metadata are needed for a designated community?

• How are bulk 'archive' to 'archive' transfers supported by the Reference Model?

PROPOSED SCHEDULE

First International Workshop - 26-27 October 1995 in Oxford, England

CCSDS Panel 2 Workshop

Second International Workshop - May 1996 in Pasadena, CA, USA

ISO working draft

Third International Workshop - October 1996 in Munich, Germany

Begin to relate Reference Model interfaces to existing standards

break into discipline subgroups as needed

Fourth International Workshop - May 1997

ISO committee draft

Fifth International Workshop - October 1997

Sixth international Workshop - May 1998

ISO Draft International Standard

ACTION ITEMS

2 January 1996

Generate scenarios for several types of organisations that satisfy, and do not satisfy, the 'archive' definition. Also, consider the metadata interfaces and characterise them. Examples of metadata include:

• catalogue information
• algorithms
• ancillary data and relationships to other data
• pointers to other data
• software

Specific scenarios

• Nestor Peccia - Science Data Center
• Grant Denkinson - GENIE
• Lou Reich - DAACS/ECS
• Matthew Wild - Cluster
• Chunky Lepine - NERC ACSOE Archive
• Don Sawyer - NSSDC
• Matthew Wild - WDC's
• Wyn Cudlip - IDN/Global Change Master Directory
• John Turner - Life Science Data Archive
• David Giaretta - Rutherford Atlas Data Store
• Yasunori Iwana - NASDA archives TACC/EOC
• Claude Huc - CNES archive (Metadata only)

15 January 1996

New Reference Model Concept Paper - Lou Reich

1 March 1996

Comment on Referencing Model Concept Paper - All

30 March 1996

New Reference Model Concept Paper - Lou Reich

STATUS OF WORKING MODES AND MINUTES

Working Modes

Agreed to put working materials on WEB, suitably marked as draft with an expiration date.

Several agencies have agreed to broaden participation.

Help publicise effort

Possibly hold local workshops BNSC/RAL, CNES, NASA.

Wider Views