CNES activities related to the OAIS RM

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• CNES activities related to the OAIS RM
• November 2000 - May 2001
• Claude Huc
• Claude.huc_at_cnes.fr

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Presentations of the OAIS Reference Model (1)

• NEDLIB Workshop - The Hague, December 2000
• OAIS RM presentation
• complementary NEDLIB metadata for preservation
  presentation by Julien Masanes
• AIRBUS
• creation of a working group on the long term data
  preservation
• February 2001, presentation of the OAIS Model,
  EAST and DEDSL
• Schedule for end of May 2001, meeting on the
  archiving of data objects created with the STEP
  standard

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Presentations of the OAIS Reference Model (2)

• Other presentations
• Documentation forum, March 2001, Paris
•  Ile de Science  seminar, March 2001
• Ile de Science is a group of universities,
  private companies and research laboratories in
  the region of Paris. The theme of the seminar was
   digital libraries, the memory of sciences 
• CNES Technical skills Center, April 2001

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Publications

• Special issue of the scientific and technical
  review 'Document numérique' on the theme of
  'corporate archives,
• 20 pages in french
• The NEDLIB workshop presentations will be
  published by the German review, "Zeitschrift für
  Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie" (ZfBB),
• Moreover, it must be noted that the OAIS Model,
  even before its final standardization, is quoted
  in an increasing number of publications or Web
  servers

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The french digital information preservation group

• Set up in August 2000, following an OAIS
  presentation, (comprises nearly forty people)
• Meetings at the end of November 2000 and in
  February 2001
• Several working sub-bodies have been set up
• A standards and guides sub-group composition of
  an inventory, writing of reading sheets,
• A sub-group devoted to producer-archivist
  relations,
• Next meeting in June, at the French national
  Library. It will focus on the legal aspects of
  long term preservation
• Participating organizations other organizations
  have joined this group, in particular the
  Institut Pasteur.

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CNES technical activities

• Proposal to develop a portable, lightweight,
  interoperable archiving system in conformity with
  the OAIS model for scientific laboratories
• Proposal accepted, was started up in April
• Duration of action, 2 years

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Seminar Project

• An international seminar on the theme of
  'management, archiving, delivery and valuation of
  data and scientific and technical documents has
  been proposed to CNES headquarter,
• This seminar has been accepted last week
• The location envisaged is Toulouse, September
  2002.
• The OAIS Model is a central element of this
  reflection. Consequently, we will officially
  contact our partners in the CCSDS
• To request their participation in the
  organization (and possibly the sponsoring) of the
  seminar,
• To request interventions

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Conclusion

• The OAIS model is an abstract model and not an
  implementation model.
• The problems raised by the long term preservation
  of digital data are becoming critical in a large
  number of institutions.
• We must prevent the OAIS Model being reduced to
  an elegant, intellectual window-dressing exercise
  with no practical repercussions there is a great
  demand for complementary standards, closer to
  implementations
• This is the direction weve taken when starting
  work on the ingest process.