JISC

Start date: 1 November 2004

End date: 25 March 2005

Funding programme: Digital Preservation and Records Management Programme

JISC theme(s): Information environment, e-Administration

Introduction  

The immediate aims of this short project are to map the systems and metadata currently in use by UK Data Archive (UKDA) and The National Archives (TNA) against those in the OAIS (Open Archival Information System) Reference Model, and the METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) standards, to assess how the two institutions operational structure can be informed by OAIS (and vice versa); and to explore the potential for interaction between existing metadata standards utilised within the two institutions and METS. This will enable each organisation to assess the relevance of the Reference Model and the metadata standard to their work and determine whether or not the assumption that each is compliant, is in fact correct. A further aim is the production of a report outlining the experiences of each organisation in undertaking mapping. This is expected to be of use to other organisations that might want to undertake mapping to OAIS and METS. 

Aims and Objectives

• To test the application of the OAIS Reference model at the UKDA and at TNA
• To test the application of METS at the UKDA and at TNA
• To make a significant contribution to the JISC Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy

Lead institution

UK Data Archive at the University of Essex 

Project partners

The National Archives 

Programme area(s) addressed:

Institutional repository infrastructure development 

The project is now completed and the final report is available as an attachment to this page.