Research

OAIS has formed the basis of much of the research in digital preservation.

Of particular interest are:

CASPAR – Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval – was an Integrated Project co-financed by the European Union within the Sixth Framework Programme (Priority IST-2005-2.5.10, “Access to and preservation of cultural and scientific resources”). It started in April 2006 and ended in Sept 2009.

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CASPAR aimed to:

  • Implement, extend, and validate the OAIS reference model (ISO:14721:2003)
  • Enhance the techniques for capturing Representation Information and other preservation related information for content objects
  • Design virtualisation services supporting long term digital resource preservation, despite changes in the underlying computing (hardware and software) and storage systems, and the Designated Communities.
  • Integrate digital rights management, authentication, and accreditation as standard features of CASPAR.
  • Research more sophisticated access to and use of preserved digital resources including intuitive query and browsing mechanisms
  • Develop case studies to validate the CASPAR approach to digital resource preservation across different user communities and assess the conditions for a successful replication.
  • Actively contribute to the relevant standardisation activities in areas addressed by CASPAR.
  • Raise awareness about the critical importance of digital preservation among the relevant user-communities and facilitate the emergence of a more diverse offer of systems and services for preservation of digital resources.

The CASPAR documents are available from the  CASPAR web-site or from the APA member resources available here

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SCIDIP-ES built on CASPAR results to produce a robust scalable set of services plus toolkits.

In addition there are many other results