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Introduction to OAIS
Overview of the OAIS model: Responsibilities (OAIS 3)
The responsibilities required by the OAIS standard are:
- Negotiate and accept information from Producers.
- Determine which community should become the Designated Community.
- Ensure that Information Packages are independently understandable.
- Ensure Information Packages are preserved.
- Make preserved Information Packages available.
Once the unfamiliar language is grasped, it is clear that these are tasks and responsibilities routinely undertaken by archival institutions in the management of paper records. What's new about the OAIS standard is the detailed intellectual framework, which articulates the policies, functions and metadata crucial for meeting such responsibilities in a digital environment, although the model can be applied to any kind of data, even a moon rock specimen!
