{"id":103,"date":"2006-10-11T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T17:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2006-10-11T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T17:07:05","slug":"future-digital-storing-content-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/future-digital-storing-content-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Digital: Storing Content Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\u00a0\"US<\/td>\n\u00a0The GPO is faced with the challenging task of perserving millions of documents for historical purposes for future generations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Long term document preservation.\u00a0 That’s one of the tasks faced by the US Government Printing Office<\/a> (GPO).\u00a0 Most company documents managed under compliance regulations will usually have disposition schedules with recommendations for determining when documents are obsolete and can be disposed.\u00a0 But the government has a much more difficult task for preserving millions and millions of documents for long-term historical purposes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To meet this goal, the GPO has taken on a project called the Future Digital System<\/a> (FDsys).\u00a0 This ‘Digital Content System’ \u00a0project kicked off in July 2004 and is expecting to complete in October 2007.\u00a0 The status of the project<\/a> is updated periodically on the FDsys blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FDsys\u00a0is tasked with being able to electronically preserve, authenticate, manage and deliver documents on demand.\u00a0 Printing and electronic delivery services need to be available to all branches of the federal government, 1250 Federal Depository Libraries, and to the general public.<\/p>\n

The GPO challenge is to be able to preserve today’s documents for the lifetime of the government.\u00a0\u00a0 In the world of paper, the process of preserving books for decades or hundreds of years is well understood.\u00a0 But archiving electronic documents\u00a0is much more complex than the archival of paper documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Documents originating\u00a0in formats like\u00a0MS Office, PDF, XML, JPEG, or TIFF will need to be stored in ways to ensure readability years from now.\u00a0 The range of existing file formats is huge and the pace that formats change, are introduced, and are obsoleted create the challenge.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A goal for the FDsys design was to use best of breed components that are based on open standards.\u00a0 THE GPO created an architecture that is based on the Open Archival Information System<\/a> (OAIS) model.\u00a0 OAIS was designed as a domain neutral archtecture for preserving digital information for long periods of time.\u00a0 It is frequently cited in the building of digital archive and digital library systems.\u00a0 But it is often criticized as a standard that is not detailed enough in specifics.<\/p>\n

OAIS defines basic components called “Information Packets” and describes how to manage and access the content and what is needed to understand it.\u00a0 One part of OAIS is called the Submission Information Package (SIP) that describes a method for generating packages of data for submission to the archival system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

FDsys, if successful,\u00a0is a system that could well serve as a model for other long-term digital libraries.\u00a0 It will be interesting to track their progress and see how well the system works when it is made available next year.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0The GPO is faced with the challenging task of perserving millions of documents for historical purposes for future generations. Long term document preservation.\u00a0 That’s one of the tasks faced by the US Government Printing Office (GPO).\u00a0 Most company documents…<\/span><\/p>\n

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