title: A DATA-FIRST PRESERVATION STRATEGY: DATA  MANAGEMENT IN SPAR
creators: Louise Fauduet Sébastien Peyrard
abstract: The Bibliothèque nationale de France has developed its
  trusted digital repository, SPAR (Scalable Preservation
  and Archiving Repository), as a data-first system. This
  implies having fully described collections, through use
  of metadata standards in the information packages, such
  as METS, PREMIS, MIX or textMD, in a way that will
  make sense given the diversity of our documents.
  The need for full documentation also applies to the
  system itself. On the one hand, SPAR is self-describing
  in order to ensure its durability. On the other hand, all
  the information that is ingested into the system
  contributes to determine its settings and its behavior.
  The Data Management module is at the heart of these
  information flows.
  We expect to push this data-first objective ahead by
  using RDF technology, based on existing and trusted
  information models and ontologies, such as OAIS and
  PREMIS. The challenges and successes we encounter all
  serve the greater goal of having a unique and versatile
  data model for every user of the system, whether
  collection curator or system manager.