{"id":6832,"date":"2016-11-29T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=6832"},"modified":"2016-10-27T07:51:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T15:51:18","slug":"digital-object-architecture-long-term-persistence-of-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/digital-object-architecture-long-term-persistence-of-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Object Architecture: Long Term Persistence of Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever run into <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HTTP_404\">browser 404 errors<\/a> &#8212; &#8220;Page does not exist&#8221; &#8212; when browsing the internet and coming across a news article or page that existed maybe a year or two ago but has since been removed, you might think about the permanency of information stored on the internet. \u00a0If data is disappearing after only a year or two, how can we expect data to survive twenty years or further into the future?<\/p>\n<p>That kind of thinking about being able to persist\u00a0data for long periods of time drove the development of a technology called\u00a0Digital Object Architecture (DOA). The DOA\u00a0was created by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Kahn\">Robert Kahn<\/a> at the \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corporation_for_National_Research_Initiatives\">Corporation for National Research Initiatives<\/a> (CNRI) in the early 1990\u2019s. \u00a0The design was based on research done by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).<\/p>\n<p>DOA manages digital objects. \u00a0A digital object has core data, associated metadata, and pointers to where and how information can be retrieved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnri.reston.va.us\/bios\/kahn.html\">Robert Kahn<\/a>, CEO at CNRI, <a href=\"https:\/\/itu4u.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/06\/lost-something-on-the-internet-never-again-with-new-digital-object-do-architecture\/\">said that <\/a>&#8220;moving away from identifying information about things to identifying the information itself, represented in digital form, makes it possible to associate this information with other types of information. 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