Purpose, Scope, and Applicability
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 development of additional related standards
Addresses a full range of archival functions
Applicable to all long-term archives and those organizations and individuals dealing with information that may need long-term preservation
Does NOT specify any implementation