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
>