OAIS and ISO 16363
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The Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), also known as ISO 14721:2012, is the "gold standard" guiding how digital preservation should be done. The ISO16363 standard was designed to provide the basis of an ISO audit and certification process.
In this section you can find:
: describes the key ideas of OAIS and ISO 16363 together with an explanation of what conformance to them requires.
: This section describes how LIBSAFE Go can be used to support preservation. Although no piece of software can preserve information by itself, the wrong software can prevent one from carrying out preservation. On the other hand, the right software can support and make it much easier for an archive to carry out preservation if properly configured.
: as with any serious activity, digital preservation requires planning. This section describes what needs to be done.
: describes why certification is important, why an archive should be certified and what needs to be done.