Visualizing OAIS – Revised functions diagram proposal
Below headers correspond to fields on submission from via http://review.oais.info
Product: (from selected product)
OAIS June 2012
Reporter: (from login)
elziATTkb.dk
Component: (from list)
Section Annexes
Component Description (fixed from selection of 'Component'):
Various Annexes
Version: (from selected product)
June 2012
Category of change: (from list)
Updates to matters of fact
Are there issues of backward compatibility?: (from list)
No
Is this a conformance issue?: (from list)
No
Summary:
Correction of various errors and inconsistencies:
- Lines with information packages are made more thick
This is an idea that Ulla Bøgvad Kejser came up with, to make the flow of the information package(s) in the OAIS, Eld Zierau has made the update information package flow a bit thinner in order to distinguish this from the main flow. - Repetition of arrow markings and arrow text on the arrows have been omitted
as it was not used consistently and it did not add any value, and at the same time it contributed to a blurring and confusion. Instead all text is only placed at the end of the arrow – as the description of the information that is carried to an entity. This is done consistently, so no confusion should be possible. - All descriptions now start with a capital letter
This also commands in Archival Storage for the Manage Storage Hierarchy function. - Lines have been untangled
This includes aligning related arrows (e.g. report request from different places) by placed next placing then next to each other - Ingest is not called Access
which is an error in the present diagram - Arrows that are part of the same transmission of data are merged to one
This is done in order to make it more readable and more consistent with e.g. the arrow for the submission. This is e.g. the case for arrow(s) between the functions Provide Data and Generate DIP - Final Ingest report arrows in Administration have been fixed
- Number of corrections according to the actual descriptions of the functional entities
For example all arrows from the Access functional entity to the functions Customer service and Establish Standards and Policies is in the Administration functional entity are now in the diagram. The same is the case for some of the Preservation Planning functions and there have been some tidying up with the Access functional entity as well.
Description of requested change:
(Use From: "..." To "..." format) Change Figure A-1 with attached drawing
Attachment:
File:
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Description:
Contents of new Figure A-1
Organisation of the submitter:
The Royal Library of Denmark (reviewed via OAIS Community
Explanation of the reason for the suggested change:
To have a correct and readable diagram.
Note that the figures in the attachment are following other suggestions and may need adjustments according to decisions on whether to include these other suggestions (Preservation Storage instead of Archival Storage, Visual OAIS – Symbols for functional entities, Visual OAIS – re-introducing coulours for functional entities).