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Hi Julie, You might want to have a look at a joint project between UKDA and TNA funded under 4/04, which carried out assessment of UK Data Archive and The National Archives compliance with OAIS and METS. The aims of the project were to map the systems and metadata currently in use by the two organisations against those in the OAIS Reference Model and METS standard, to test the assumption that both broadly comply with the standards. The project completed in July 2005 and the The final report is available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/OAISMETS_Report_final%20.doc Hope this helps. Regards, Helen -----Original Message----- From: The CETIS Metadata Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Julie Allinson Sent: 12 April 2006 13:27 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Evaluating OAIS Dear all, The JISC Digital Repositories Programme Support team are currently preparing an evaluation report on the Reference Model for an Open Archival Informatoin System (OAIS) as a basis for a generic reference model for repositories, examining the arguments for and against using this model across different types of repositories. The use of OAIS for digital preservation is growing, and work in this area includes a RLG Digital Repositories task force looking at certification. and a JISC project looking at disaggregating preservation and repository services. Outside of the digital preservation community, there has been some discussion regarding the wider usefulness of OAIS, including the potential for an OAIS-lite approach to enable smaller organisations or less preservation-focussed repositories to utilise the OAIS model, concepts and terminology. In addition, there has already been useful discussion on this list, and others, about the relationship between preservation and repositories which will be considered in the evaluation. To ensure that the evaluation fully considers the needs of the communities involved, we would like to gather observations or comments about OAIS and its application in this context, or about similar work, please do send them, either on- or off-list. Comments from different communities and domains would be particularly welcome. The impetus for this work was provided by the repositories strand at the JISC-CETIS Conference 2006 and the Support team work element to scope reference models for repositories. References: JISC-CETIS Conference 2006, Repositories strand, report and presentations: http://www.e-framework.org/events/conference/programme/repositories/ Report from the CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories SIG meeting, 1st March 2006: http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/ Report from a DPC Briefing on OAIS, 4th April 2006: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/060404dpcbriefing.html Further information is available on the Digital Repositories Programme wiki: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/OAIS and http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Reference_models Sherpa DP: http://ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/sherpa-dp/index.html Many thanks, Julie -- Julie Allinson JISC Digital Repositories Support Officer UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY Tel: 0845 1579436 / ++44 (0) 1225 386580 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/ --