TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERAL-PURPOSE DIGITAL REPOSITORY
Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Anastasia A. Tsakou, Dimitrios K. Tsolis, Theodore S. Papatheodorou · 2004
Keywords: Repositories, Functional Model, Preservation, Interoperability, OAIS. Abstract: The need for efficient storage, management and consumption of digital resources has long been a puzzle for institutions and organizations that aim at preserving digital information. Numerous standards, specifications and practices have been proposed so far, in order to alleviate the problems that come in to surface when setting up a digital repository. Nevertheless, only few of these initiatives have enjoyed wide spread adoption, possibly because they are bound to specific content, functionality or implementation needs. This paper aims to contribute towards the development of a general-purpose digital repository by first providing a common definition, independent of specific needs and thus widely applicable. It also presents a set of state-of-the-art requirements that are of key importance for the success of any similar task. Finally, it proposes a Functional Model so as to demonstrate how the above specifications can actually be realized.