Inproceedings,
Preservation of digital publications: an OAIS extension and implementation
DocEng '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Document engineering, page 131--139. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2003)
DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/958220.958245
Abstract
Over the last decades, the amount of digital documents has increased exponentially. Nevertheless, traditional document engineering methods are applied. Even worse, the long-term preservation issues have been neglected in standard document life cycle implementations.Our digital (cultural) heritage is, therefore, highly endangered by the silent obsolescence of data formats, software and hardware. Severe losses of information already happened. It is high time to implement concrete solutions.Fortunately numerous institutions already target these issues. Moreover, with the OAIS reference model1 a rich standardized conceptual framework is available, which already serves as implementation basis.2This paper discusses an extension to the OAIS reference model and illustrates a prototype implementation of a document life cycle that is enriched by functions for long-term preservation.More precisely, this paper aims to provide first solutions to the following three problem areas:<ol>
