Packaging Information
This is the information that describes how the components of an Information Package are logically or physically bound together and how to identify and extract the components.
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This is the information that describes how the components of an Information Package are logically or physically bound together and how to identify and extract the components.
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An information Package is quite a general object and the Packaging Information describes how the various components are arranged and how they can be extracted.
OAIS does not provide any details for the SIP or DIP.
On the other hand OAIS provides a great deal of requirements for the Archival Information Package (AIP), and so the bulk of the following is about the AIP.
Only the packaging format maps directly to the OAIS Archival Information Package.
An OAIS AIP may be as simple as a collection of pointers to the various components required by OAIS, namely
Data Object
Representation Information
Provenance Information
Fixity Information
Reference Information
Context Information
Access Rights Information
The packaging Information would in such as case be definition of the way in which the pointers may be identified. For example the shows how to identify and extract the various components of the AIP.
A ZIP or TAR or other general "box/holder" containing all the components in a flat structure could also be an AIP as long as it was accompanied by the instructions as to how to identify and extract the various required components, for example having such instructions in a simple text file.
On the other hand, despite the name, the does not seem to be compatible with the OAIS AIP because it does not seem possible to assign a place for the various required components, for example the Representation Information.