Life and Death of an Information Package: Implementing the Lifecycle in a Multi-Purpose Preservation System

Bertrand Caron (1) , Jordan de La Houssaye (1) , Thomas Ledoux (1) , Stéphane Reecht (1)

1 BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France

This paper aims to explain how the National Library of France (BnF) faced the question of the information lifecycle, during the implementation of its digital preservation system, in the light of the experience it acquired managing and using this system, from a theoretical approach following the OAIS reference model to an implementation. It was understood very early that from a preservation point of view the management of subsequent Versions and Editions of an Information Package was a particularly sensitive problem akin to risks management. However it was thought at the time that the system should be able to manage the lifecycle of an AIP (Archival Information Package) in a universal way that would be valid whatever the package considered and the context. These ideas quickly proved to be impractical and didn't resist the test of reality. Some improvements were provided, while taking into account the rest of the digital ecosystem of the BnF.

Keywords: Package lifecycle; Information Package; Package update; Package deletion; Preservation policies; Data enrichment; Package Version; Package Edition; OAIS interpretation; PREMIS Events

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Information Retrieval [cs.IR]; Computer Science [cs]; Document and Text Processing; Computer Science [cs]; Web

Bertrand Caron, Jordan de La Houssaye, Thomas Ledoux, Stéphane Reecht. Life and Death of an Information Package: Implementing the Lifecycle in a Multi-Purpose Preservation System. iPRES 2017 14th International Conference on Digital Preservation, Sep 2017, Kyoto, Japan. ⟨hal-01617645⟩