ICPSR meets OAIS: applying the OAIS reference model to the social science archive context |
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| Authors: | Mary Vardigan Cole Whiteman |
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| Institution: | (1) Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper reviews the archival process at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a repository
of digital social science data, and maps ICPSR’s Ingest and Access operations to the Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
Reference Model. The paper also assesses ICPSR’s conformance with the archival responsibilities of “trusted” OAIS repositories,
with the proviso that audit criteria for archival certification are still under development. The ICPSR to OAIS mapping exercise
has benefits for the larger social science archiving community because it provides an interpretation of the reference model
in the quantitative social science environment and points to preservation-related issues that may be salient for other social
science archives. Building on the archives’ long tradition of shared norms and cooperation, we may ultimately be able to design
a federated system of trusted social science repositories that provides access to the global heritage.
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| Keywords: | Data archives Trusted digital repositories Social science research data Digital preservation Designated user community |
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