General information
Name of the solution:
Solution's owner: CEF Digital
eArchiving provides the core specifications, software, training, and knowledge to help data creators, software developers, and digital archives tackle the challenge of short, medium, and long-term data management and reuse in a sustainable, authentic, cost-efficient, manageable, and interoperable way.
eArchiving technical specifications are ideal for migrating long-term valuable data between generations of information systems, transferring data to dedicated long-term repositories (i.e. digital archives), or preserving and reusing data over extended (and shorter) periods of time and generations of software systems.
The CEF eArchiving implements the following:
Principles
Interoperability layers
CEF eArchiving implements the following EIF recommendations as explained below:
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Recommendation 4 | Openness
The CEF eArchiving building block is based on open specifications and open standards.
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Recommendation 7 | Reusability
eArchiving building blocks allows for digital data preservation, hence ensuring its reuse in the long term.
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Recommendation 8 | Technological neutrality and data portability
eArchiving encourages the use of open source software, which is technologically neutral.
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Recommendation 9 | Technological neutrality and data portability
Being based on international standards, eArchiving ensures data portability, namely that data is easily transferable between systems.
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Recommendation 12 | User centricity
The E-ARK Knowledge Centre allows users to contribute and validate good practices relating to information governance.
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Recommendation 17 | Administrative simplification
The eArchiving building block can be coupled with services and processes to support administrative burden reduction.
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Recommendation 18 | Preservation of information
eArchiving provides documentation and support services based on international standards to help describe, transmit and preserve digital information.
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Recommendation 23 | Interoperability governance
eArchiving technical specifications describe in detail the interoperable and open formats for packaging data and metadata for transfer to archival repositories (E-ARK SIP), for the preservation over extended periods (E-ARK AIP) and the reuse of archived content (E-ARK DIP). The most common principles and requirements are presented separately within the E-ARK Common Specification for Information Packages.
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Recommendation 30 | Semantic interoperability
eArchiving aims is to properly describe, transmit and preserve digital information.
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Recommendation 31 | Semantic interoperability
eARK Knowledge Centre contributes to harmonising currently fragmented archival approaches for ingest, preservation and re-use of data, thus putting in place an information strategy to avoid fragmentation and duplication.
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Recommendation 32 | Semantic interoperability
The CEF eArchiving building block encourages community driven development and updates of standards, hence involving a wide range of stakeholders in its maintenance and development.
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Recommendation 33 | Technical interoperability
eArchiving promotes the use of open source software, as the main standard for digital archiving is the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS).