Archive Information Packagers for NASA HDF-EOS Data

One of the guiding concepts of the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System, commonly referred to as the OAIS Reference Model, is the concept of an Archive Information Package (AIP) containing not just the data to be preserved for future access, but also the reference information needed to ensure that the data is understandable by its target audience and the preservation description information containing the lineage of the data and which ensures that an accurate, unaltered copy is retrieved at any point in the future. While creating AIPs is simple in principle it is not necessarily obvious that it will be as simple in practice. In this talk, the results of an experiment to develop AIPs for data in NASA'S Earth Observation System (EOS) Data and Information System (DIS) are reported.

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