Transformational Information Properties

OAIS defines a Transformational Information Property (TIP) as an Information Property the preservation of the value of which is regarded as being necessary but not sufficient to verify that any Non-Reversible Transformation has adequately preserved information content. This could be important as contributing to evidence about Authenticity. Such an Information Property is dependent upon specific Representation Information, including Semantic Representation Information, to denote how it is encoded and what it means.

A TIP is used to check whether a Transformation of a Digital Object is acceptable as a preservation activity for this archive.