iRODS policy sets as standards for preservation
Reagan Moore, Arcot Rajasekar, Mike Wan · 2010
Digital data have a life cycle, of which preservation represents one stage. A traditional life cycle corresponds to creation of a collection, sharing of data, publication of data, and preservation of data. Data management at each stage can be represented by a set of policies and procedures that represent the consensus of a broad user community. In this view, preservation corresponds to the policies and procedures that are required for future users to understand the properties that have been maintained within a collection. Policy-based data management systems support policy evolution, making it possible to include preservation policies within a standard framework that is capable of supporting the evolution of policies across all stages of the data life cycle. An example is the iRODS integrated Rule-Oriented Data System, http://irods.diceresearch.org.