Hi, Mark: The DCC has a great digital curation lifecycle model that might be useful: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/digital-curation/digital-curation-faqs/dcc-curation-lifecycle-model Adelle Frank Emory University http://adellefrank.com On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Joe Hourcle <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Mark A. Matienzo wrote: > > I'm currently looking for any workflow and business process analysis >> of the processes involved in processing archival collections. At this >> point, I'm hoping to find fairly high-level information, ideally in >> the form of or easily translatable into workflow diagrams to serve as >> a strawman. Processing manuals may help, but likely are too detailed >> for my current purposes. Please let me know if you have anything that >> might help. >> > > Have you already looked at OAIS? (Open Archival Information System) > > It's a reference model, so goes over the sorts of things that digital > archives should do as they're ingesting / storing / disseminating things, > but isn't a specific implementation. > > Current version (2002): > > http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf > > There's also drafts as they're working towards making it an ISO standard. > I'm not sure if this is the most recent version or not, but it matches the > last draft ID (p-1-1) up for review on the CCSDS site: > > http://ddp.nist.gov/refs/650x0p11_OAIS_pink_book.pdf > > > -Joe >