Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)

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Recommendation for Space Data System Practices
REFERENCE MODEL FOR AN
OPEN ARCHIVAL
INFORMATION SYSTEM (OAIS)
RECOMMENDED PRACTICE
CCSDS 650.0-M-2
MAGENTA BOOK
June 2012
Recommendation for Space Data System Practices
REFERENCE MODEL FOR AN
OPEN ARCHIVAL
INFORMATION SYSTEM (OAIS)
RECOMMENDED PRACTICE
CCSDS 650.0-M-2
MAGENTA BOOK
June 2012
CCSDS RECOMMENDED PRACTICE FOR AN OAIS REFERENCE MODEL
AUTHORITY

Issue: Recommended Practice, Issue 2
Date: June 2012
Location: Washington, DC, USA

This document has been approved for publication by the Management Council of the
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) and represents the consensus
technical agreement of the participating CCSDS Member Agencies. The procedure for
review and authorization of CCSDS documents is detailed in Organization and Processes for
the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS A02.1-Y-3), and the record of
Agency participation in the authorization of this document can be obtained from the CCSDS
Secretariat at the address below.

This document is published and maintained by:

CCSDS Secretariat
Space Communications and Navigation Office, 7L70
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA Headquarters
Washington, DC 20546-0001, USA
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STATEMENT OF INTENT
The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) is an organization officially
established by the management of its members. The Committee meets periodically to address
data systems problems that are common to all participants, and to formulate sound technical
solutions to these problems. Inasmuch as participation in the CCSDS is completely
voluntary, the results of Committee actions are termed Recommendations and are not in
themselves considered binding on any Agency.
CCSDS Recommendations take two forms: Recommended Standards that are prescriptive
and are the formal vehicles by which CCSDS Agencies create the standards that specify how
elements of their space mission support infrastructure shall operate and interoperate with
others; and Recommended Practices that are more descriptive in nature and are intended to
provide general guidance about how to approach a particular problem associated with space
mission support. This Recommended Practice is issued by, and represents the consensus of,
the CCSDS members. Endorsement of this Recommended Practice is entirely voluntary
and does not imply a commitment by any Agency or organization to implement its
recommendations in a prescriptive sense.
No later than five years from its date of issuance, this Recommended Practice will be
reviewed by the CCSDS to determine whether it should: (1) remain in effect without change;
(2) be changed to reflect the impact of new technologies, new requirements, or new
directions; or (3) be retired or canceled.
In those instances when a new version of a Recommended Practice is issued, existing
CCSDS-related member Practices and implementations are not negated or deemed to be non-
CCSDS compatible. It is the responsibility of each member to determine when such Practices
or implementations are to be modified. Each member is, however, strongly encouraged to
direct planning for its new Practices and implementations towards the later version of the
Recommended Practice.
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FOREWORD
This document is a technical Recommended Practice for use in developing a broader
consensus on what is required for an archive to provide permanent, or indefinite Long Term,
preservation of digital information.
This Recommended Practice establishes a common framework of terms and concepts which
make up an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). It allows existing and future
archives to be more meaningfully compared and contrasted. It provides a basis for further
standardization within an archival context and it should promote greater vendor awareness
of, and support of, archival requirements.
CCSDS has changed the classification of Reference Models from Blue (Recommended
Standard) to Magenta (Recommended Practice).
Through the process of normal evolution, it is expected that expansion, deletion, or
modification of this document may occur. This Recommended Practice is therefore subject
to CCSDS document management and change control procedures, which are defined in the
Procedures Manual for the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems. Current
versions of CCSDS documents are maintained at the CCSDS Web site:
http://www.ccsds.org/
Questions relating to the contents or status of this document should be addressed to the
CCSDS Secretariat at the address indicated on page i.
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At time of publication, the active Member and Observer Agencies of the CCSDS were:
Member Agencies
– Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)/Italy.
– Canadian Space Agency (CSA)/Canada.
– Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/France.
– China National Space Administration (CNSA)/People’s Republic of China.
– Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)/Germany.
– European Space Agency (ESA)/Europe.
– Federal Space Agency (FSA)/Russian Federation.
– Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)/Brazil.
– Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/Japan.
– National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/USA.
– UK Space Agency/United Kingdom.
Observer Agencies
– Austrian Space Agency (ASA)/Austria.
– Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BFSPO)/Belgium.
– Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMash)/Russian Federation.
– China Satellite Launch and Tracking Control General, Beijing Institute of Tracking
and Telecommunications Technology (CLTC/BITTT)/China.
– Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)/China.
– Chinese Academy of Space Technology (CAST)/China.
– Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)/Australia.
– CSIR Satellite Applications Centre (CSIR)/Republic of South Africa.
– Danish National Space Center (DNSC)/Denmark.
– Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Aeroespacial (DCTA)/Brazil.
– European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
(EUMETSAT)/Europe.
– European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT)/Europe.
– Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA)/Thailand.
– Hellenic National Space Committee (HNSC)/Greece.
– Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)/India.
– Institute of Space Research (IKI)/Russian Federation.
– KFKI Research Institute for Particle & Nuclear Physics (KFKI)/Hungary.
– Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)/Korea.
– Ministry of Communications (MOC)/Israel.
– National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)/Japan.
– National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/USA.
– National Space Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NSARK)/Kazakhstan.
– National Space Organization (NSPO)/Chinese Taipei.
– Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST)/USA.
– Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)/Turkey.
– Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO)/Pakistan.
– Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)/Sweden.
– United States Geological Survey (USGS)/USA.
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DOCUMENT CONTROL

Document Title Date Status
CCSDS Reference Model for an Open January Original issue
650.0-B-1 Archival Information System (OAIS) 2002 (superseded)
CCSDS Reference Model for an Open June 2012 Current issue:
650.0-M-2 Archival Information System – updates document
(OAIS), Recommended Practice, based on input from
Issue 2 user community
(note).
NOTE – This issue includes: clarifications to many concepts, in particular Authenticity
with the concept of Transformational Information Property introduced;
corrections and improvements in diagrams; addition of Access Rights
Information to PDI. Annex A from the previous issue, describing existing
archives, has been removed. A security annex has been added as required by
CCSDS. Substantive changes are indicated by change bars in the inside margin.

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CONTENTS
Section Page
1 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 1-1

1.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE ........................................................................................ 1-1
1.2 APPLICABILITY ................................................................................................... 1-2
1.3 RATIONALE .......................................................................................................... 1-3
1.4 CONFORMANCE .................................................................................................. 1-3
1.5 ROAD MAP FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RELATED STANDARDS .................. 1-4
1.6 DOCUMENT STRUCTURE ................................................................................. 1-5
1.7 DEFINITIONS ........................................................................................................ 1-7

2 OAIS CONCEPTS ......................................................................................................... 2-1

2.1 OAIS ENVIRONMENT ......................................................................................... 2-2
2.2 OAIS INFORMATION .......................................................................................... 2-3
2.3 OAIS HIGH-LEVEL EXTERNAL INTERACTIONS .......................................... 2-8

3 OAIS RESPONSIBILITIES ......................................................................................... 3-1

3.1 MANDATORY RESPONSIBILITIES .................................................................. 3-1
3.2 EXAMPLE MECHANISMS FOR DISCHARGING RESPONSIBILITIES ......... 3-1

4 DETAILED MODELS .................................................................................................. 4-1

4.1 FUNCTIONAL MODEL ........................................................................................ 4-1
4.2 INFORMATION MODEL ................................................................................... 4-20
4.3 INFORMATION PACKAGE TRANSFORMATIONS ....................................... 4-50

5 PRESERVATION PERSPECTIVES ........................................................................... 5-1

5.1 DIGITAL MIGRATION ........................................................................................ 5-2
5.2 PRESERVATION OF ACCESS AND USE SERVICES .................................... 5-10

6 ARCHIVE INTEROPERABILITY ............................................................................. 6-1

6.1 TECHNICAL LEVELS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN OAIS ARCHIVES ..... 6-2
6.2 MANAGEMENT ISSUES WITH FEDERATED ARCHIVES ............................. 6-8

ANNEX A COMPOSITE FUNCTIONAL VIEW (NORMATIVE) ........................... A-1
ANNEX B RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER STANDARDS OR EFFORTS
(INFORMATIVE) ..........................................................................................B-1
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CONTENTS (continued)
Section Page
ANNEX C BRIEF GUIDE TO THE UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML)
(INFORMATIVE) ......................................................................................... C-1
ANNEX D INFORMATIVE REFERENCES (INFORMATIVE) .............................. D-1
ANNEX E A MODEL FOR SOFTWARE USE IN REPRESENTATION
INFORMATION (INFORMATIVE) ...........................................................E-1
ANNEX F SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS (INFORMATIVE) .............................. F-1
Figure
2-1 Environment Model of an OAIS ................................................................................... 2-2
2-2 Obtaining Information from Data ................................................................................. 2-4
2-3 Information Package Concepts and Relationships ....................................................... 2-6
2-4 OAIS Archive External Data ........................................................................................ 2-8
4-1 OAIS Functional Entities .............................................................................................. 4-1
4-2 Functions of the Ingest Functional Entity ..................................................................... 4-5
4-3 Functions of the Archival Storage Functional Entity ................................................... 4-8
4-4 Functions of the Data Management Functional Entity ............................................... 4-10
4-5 Functions of the Administration Functional Entity .................................................... 4-11
4-6 Functions of the Preservation Planning Functional Entity ......................................... 4-14
4-7 Functions of the Access Functional Entity ................................................................. 4-16
4-8 OAIS Data Flow Diagram .......................................................................................... 4-18
4-9 Administration Context Diagram ............................................................................... 4-19
4-10 Information Object ...................................................................................................... 4-21
4-11 Representation Information Object ............................................................................. 4-23
4-12 Information Object Taxonomy ................................................................................... 4-26
4-13 Information Package Contents .................................................................................... 4-34
4-14 Information Package Taxonomy ................................................................................. 4-35
4-15 Archival Information Package (AIP) .......................................................................... 4-37
4-16 Preservation Description Information ......................................................................... 4-38
4-17 Package Description ................................................................................................... 4-39
4-18 Archival Information Package (Detailed View) ......................................................... 4-40
4-19 Archival Specialization of the AIP ............................................................................. 4-41
4-20 Archival Specialization of the Package ...................................................................... 4-42
4-21 Archival Information Unit (AIU) ............................................................................... 4-43
4-22 Unit Description .......................................................................................................... 4-44
4-23 Archive Information Collections Logical View ......................................................... 4-46
4-24 Collection Description ................................................................................................ 4-47
4-25 Data Management Information ................................................................................... 4-50
4-26 High-Level Data Flows in an OAIS ........................................................................... 4-51
5-1 Conceptual View of Relationships among Names and AIP Components .................... 5-3
6-1 Cooperating Archives with Mutual Exchange Agreement ........................................... 6-3
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CONTENTS (continued)
Figure Page
6-2 Cooperating Archives with Standard Ingest and Access Methods ............................... 6-4
6-3 An OAIS Federation Employing a Common Catalog .................................................. 6-5
6-4 Archives with Shared Storage ...................................................................................... 6-8
A-1 Composite of Functional Entities ................................................................................ A-2
C-1 Key to UML Relationships ...........................................................................................C-1
E-1 Layered Information Model .......................................................................................... E-1

Table
4-1 Examples of PDI ......................................................................................................... 4-31

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