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Tackling digital compliance - The National Archives, the UK Data Archive and the Estonian Business Archive In conjunction with the UK Data Archive, The National Archives have released a report comparing their preservation practices to the leading internationally recognised standard for digital archives. This provides a model for other organisations to test the compliance of their own systems. Using the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model the two organisations were able to compare their preservation practices within a common framework: an opportunity that was particularly timely because, in January 2005, the UKDA was appointed as a legal place of deposit for National Archive documents. The OAIS reference model (ISO 14721) is the major international standard addressing the structure and operations of digital archive facilities. The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is a schema for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library. The assessment was carried out by the UKDA, The National Archives and the Estonian Business Archive, with a funding award from the Joint Information Systems Committee - under its Institutional Digital Preservation and Asset Management Programme. Full story: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/79.htm The report is available here: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/publications.asp Paper copies are available from the National Archives and from the UK Data Archive. Contact: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] For further information on Digital Preservation at the National Archives, please see: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/digital.htm Press Enquiries: Contact Stuart Brennan in The National Archives Press Office on 0208 8392 5277 or [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Just published - The Genealogist's Internet (3rd edition) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/bookshop/title_show.asp?title_id=212 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---