What does OAIS stand for?

ISO 14721:2002: Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, CCSDS 650.

The work on preservation metadata, the open archival information system (OAIS) producer model (Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, 2002), the architecture and design of digital repositories all point to approaches that are designed to facilitate long-term access to digital information by enabling and informing future users so that they can maintain access to the digital content we are storing today.

One way to generalize the decision-making process, says Hedstrom, is to consider the producer and user communities within the framework set forth in the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model, which was initially developed by the space science data community and has been approved as an ISO standard.

RLG's report on trusted digital repositories (RLG-OCLC Working Group on Digital Archive Attributes, 2002) and audit checklist for certifying trusted repositories (RLG-NARA Task Force on Digital Repository Certification, 2005), and the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model (Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, 2002) provide useful guidance with respect to digital preservation in general.

Australia: Public Record Office of Victoria, April 2000; and Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System -- CCSDS 650.

Standards such as the Open Archival Information System (OMS) reference model (1) are also recognized universally.

A more modular system architecture that implements the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) framework (3) more closely, separating the digital asset store from the database that manages it more cleanly.

DIAS is the first archiving system available on the market that is compliant with the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model standard.