title: A REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION
creators: Gonçalo Antunes José Barateiro José Borbinha
abstract: Apart from being a technological issue, digital
  preservation raises several organizational challenges.
  These challenges are starting to be addressed in the
  industrial design and e-Science domains, where
  emerging requirements cannot be addressed directly by
  OAIS. Thus, new approaches to design and assess
  digital preservation environments are required. We
  propose a Reference Architecture as a tool that can
  capture the essence of those emerging preservation
  environments and provide ways of developing and
  deploying preservation-enabled systems in
  organizations. This paper presents the main concepts
  from which a Reference Architecture for digital
  preservation can be built, along with an analysis of the
  environment surrounding a digital preservation system.
  We present a concrete Reference Architecture,
  consisting of a process to derive concrete digital
  preservation architectures, which is supported by an
  architecture framework for organizing architecture
  descriptions. In that way, organizations can be better
  prepared to cope with the present and future challenges
  of digital preservation.