Archives Ready To the AIPs Transmission - ARTAT
The Archives Ready To AIP Transmission a PREMIS Based Project (ARTAT-PBP) aims to experiment with the adoption of a common preservation metadata standard as interchange language in a network of cooperating organizations that need to exchange digital resources with the mutual objective of preserving them in the long term.
Project duration: Project has started in March 2010 where the first interview has run.
Considering the early stage of the project the information published is ongoing.
Existing digital repositories have implemented customized management repository system and metadata infrastructures that manage their own Archival Information Packages (AIPs) (CCSDS 2002).
The cooperating organizations ability of exchanging resources in a distributed digital preservation scenario, opens interoperability issues that involve as the organizational level, as the technical level. Whereas organizational interoperability issues can be generally identified with difficulties in mutual understanding because of different languages and semantics, technical interoperability issues can be identified with differences of systems and procedures adopted.
The ARTAT project aims to face this double layered problem of interoperability, on the principle which states that technical level problems can’t be solved without improving the communication among organizations on a common knowledge base.
In order to achieve better organizational interaction to solve technical interoperability issues, the experiment will test the impact of a translation into a common language supported by a common structure formally defined.
