Archive Interoperability
Users of multiple OAIS archives have reasons to wish for some uniformity or cooperation among the OAISs.
OAIS associations can be categorized technically by both external and internal factors.
- External factors include characteristics of the Producer and Consumer communities
- Internal factors could be include common implementations of the information models or multi-archive sharing of one or more of the functional areas.
Four categories of archive association are defined
- Independent
- Cooperating
- Federated
- Shared Resources