CNES Activities related to the OAIS Reference Model

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CNES Activities related to the OAIS Reference
Model

• C. Huc
• 30 October 2000

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Meetings

• 30 May 2000 CNES - Bibliothèque Nationale de
  France (French National Library), ParisOAIS work
  conference with the representatives of the NEDLIB
  project.
• The experience acquired by NEDLIB in application
  of the Model is significant
• the main comments concerning the preservation
  function defined by NEDLIB and concerning
  Emulation techniques were summarized in a paper
  sent to P2 in July 2000

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OAIS RM Presentations

• 15 June 2000, CNES, Paris
• OAIS RM presentation organized jointly by the
  CNES and the French National Library
• didactic presentation of the Model
• presentation of the application of the Model by
  NEDLIB
• presentation of interactions between the OAIS RM
  and the CNES archive activities
• open to a dozen organizations concerned with
  information preservation activities

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Consequences

• Following the meeting on 15 June, participants
  thought it was necessary to set up a permanent
  work group to deal with archiving questions
• to exchange knowledge and know-how (in French)
  between French organizations concerned with
  archiving,
• In this context the OAIS plays an astonishing
  unifiying role between previously separate
  communities Scientific data centers, national
  archives, libraries, private company assets, etc.

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The Archive Group

• First group meeting on 28 August 2000
• define general objectives
• draw up a work plan
• define a modus operandi
• propose enrolment in the ARISTOTE association
• The ARISTOTE association
• is non-profit making (http//www.aristote.asso.fr
  / )
• is designed to share knowledge and know-how
  within government bodies
• has the CNES, the major French research
  organizations, the French Electricity Board, etc.
  as members
• is open to private companies, but government
  bodies must retain their majority status

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Group work plan (1)

• General standards related to archiving
• draw up the inventory of what exists in the
  different communities,
• identify missing standards
• Vocabulary
• some communities already have standardized
  terminology or terminology undergoing
  standardizationFor example Project for a
  dictionary of archive-related terminology
  (English-French-Spanish-German)
  http//staff-www.uni-marburg.de/mennehar/datiii/
  engterm.html
• hence a need for equivalences

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Group work plan (2)

• Information to be preserved
• list the different information categories
• classify formats
• perpetual and non perpetual formats
• perspectives opened by XML
• Representation Information
• document life cycle
• collect information from producers
• PDI
• difficulties encountered in these fields

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Group work plan (3)

• Archive systems
• global aspects architecture, architecture
  comparisons
• essential functions ingestion, storage, data
  management, access, administration
• transfers
• archive interoperability
• archive access security

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Group work plan (4)

• Organizational questions
• the different roleplayers and their roles
• the respective roles of
• information professionals archivists,
  librarians, documentalists, scientists
• engineers and computer scientists

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Operations

• Meetings every 2 to 3 months
• specialized subgroups formed on different themes
• bilateral contacts and meetings between
  organizations
• mail discussion forum opened
• Web server to be opened to capitalize and
  facilitate access to group work
• visits to the archive sites of each institution
  are planned

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Current group composition

• Approximately 25 people (but the group is
  growing)
• A dozen institutions represented
• scientific or technical institutions
• CNES
• Commissariat for Atomic Energy of France (CEA)
• French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS)
• heritage institutions
• French Archives
• National Library of France
• Government bodies
• French Electricity Board (EDF), French railways
  (SNCF), Representatives of certain ministries

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Other perspectives

• Propose a CNES R and T action to develop an
  Archive System prototype which is
• portable,
• in compliance with the OAIS RM,
• interoperable (based on the same interoperability
  technologies as those currently implemented in
  the SPASE - Space Physics Archive Search Engine
  project)
• NEDLIB Workshop in the Hague in December 2000
• a presentation of the OAIS Model is planned