Selection and Appraisal in the OAIS Model. Ed Pinsent. DART Blog. 7 September 2016.
The post asks if the OAIS Model accommodate the skills of selection and appraisal, then suggests that it cannot. The Model presents an over-simplified view where in a state that is all
ready to preserve, which ignores the beginning processes.There is a need to define the
pre-ingest stage in OAIS, but there needs to be a greater recognition of the archivists' Selection and Appraisal skills, can have tremendous value in digital preservation. Archivists assess the value of the
content in a contextual framework, based on other records in the archive and in the context of
provenance. It requires an understanding of context,
provenance, record series, to help identify the
potential value of content. A Series model is the "foundation for
all Archival arrangement, and is the cornerstone of our profession".
It is difficult to see where the record / archival series is in all this. "The
integrity and contextual meaning of a collection is being overlooked, in
favour of this atomised digital-object view.
OAIS, if strictly
interpreted, could bypass the Series altogether in favour of an assembly
line workflow that simply processes one digital object after another." The blog post asserts that there is a need to rediscover the value of Appraisal and Selection and its importance
in the digital realm.
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