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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi Bob<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Unfortunately OAIS does not explain what “original” means. You may mean that it comes from a Producer, but remember that the role of Producer could be fulfilled by the OAIS itself. So if the OAIS creates Fixity Information, and wants to preserve it, then it is by the definitions also “original”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I, on the other hand, have always taken it to mean the thing we are focussing on preserving on at the moment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Making the change suggested eliminates the confusion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>..David<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> MOIMS-DAI <moims-dai-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Downs<br><b>Sent:</b> 02 April 2019 21:19<br><b>To:</b> MOIMS-Data Archive Interoperability <moims-dai@mailman.ccsds.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Moims-dai] FW: CDO text<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Please let me add my voice of agreement to Don's point and Mark's agreement that Content Information should be defined as "the original target of preservation".<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bob<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Robert R. Downs, PhD<br>Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research<br>Acting Head of Cyberinfrastructure and Informatics Research and Development<br>Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),<br>The Earth Institute, Columbia University<br>P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA<br>Voice: 845-365-8985; fax: 845-365-8922<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:rdowns@ciesin.columbia.edu" target="_blank">rdowns@ciesin.columbia.edu</a><br>Columbia University CIESIN Web site: <a href="http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu" target="_blank">http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu</a><br>ORCID: 0000-0002-8595-5134<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 3:30 PM Mark Conrad <<a href="mailto:mark.conrad@nara.gov">mark.conrad@nara.gov</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Well said, Don. I have become the lone voice at our weekly meetings defending Content Information as the information originally provided by the Producer. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mark Conrad<br>NARA Information Services<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Systems Engineering Division (IT)<br>The National Archives and Records Administration<br>Erma Ora Byrd Conference and Learning Center<br>Building 494, Room 225<br>610 State Route 956<br>Rocket Center, WV 26726<br><br>Phone: 304-726-7820<br>Fax: 304-726-7802<br>Email: <a href="mailto:mark.conrad@nara.gov" target="_blank">mark.conrad@nara.gov</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 2:47 PM D or C Sawyer <<a href="mailto:Sawyer@acm.org" target="_blank">Sawyer@acm.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi David,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>There is no valid reason to change the Content Information definition from ‘<span style='color:#FF2600'>the original target of preservation’</span> to ‘<span style='color:#FF2600'>a target of preservation</span>’. This has been there from the beginning to make clear it is referring to the original information provided by the Producer and not just any information within the Archive. This is important to ensure that when people are discussing preservation within an OAIS context, everyone understands this is the information originally provided by the Producer. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Of course we understand why you want to make this change because you still want to move Content Information to being ANY information in the Archive so you can claim the whole process is recursive by definition ‘and been there from the beginning'. This would be a radical, ambiguity enhancing, change to the long standing common understanding of the OAIS information and functional modeling. For these reasons this proposed change should be thoroughly rejected by the group.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers-<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Don<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Apr 2, 2019, at 10:06 AM, David Giaretta <<a href="mailto:david@giaretta.org" target="_blank">david@giaretta.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US> </span></span><span lang=EN-US>David Giaretta <<a href="mailto:david@giaretta.org" target="_blank"><span style='color:#954F72'>david@giaretta.org</span></a>><span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space> </span>02 April 2019 13:12<br><b>To:</b><span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space> </span>'Mark Conrad' <<a href="mailto:mark.conrad@nara.gov" target="_blank"><span style='color:#954F72'>mark.conrad@nara.gov</span></a>>; 'John Garrett' <<a href="mailto:garrett@his.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:#954F72'>garrett@his.com</span></a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space> </span>CDO text</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>My suggestions for the additional text:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Change in current draft from:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:18.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b>Preservation Description Information (PDI</b>): The<span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space><b> </b></span>information, which along with Representation Information, is necessary for adequate preservation of the Content Data Object and which can be categorized as Provenance Information, Context Information, Reference Information, Fixity Information, and Access Rights Information.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Note: Defining PDI (as well as its components - Provenance Information, Context Information, Reference Information, Fixity Information, and Access Rights Information) as relevant to the Content Data Object does not mean that those concerns are any less important for other data objects or at other levels, for example, it is important to apply reference, fixity, provenance, context and access rights to Representation Information, or to any other information the Archive is preserving. Definition of these terms as relevant to the Content Data Object is simply to ease discussion of these concepts at the Content Data Object level.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>To:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:18.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b>Preservation Description Information (PDI</b>): The<span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space><b> </b></span>information, which along with Representation Information, is necessary for adequate preservation of the Content Data Object and which can be categorized as Provenance Information, Context Information, Reference Information, Fixity Information, and Access Rights Information.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Note: Defining PDI (as well as its components - Provenance Information, Context Information, Reference Information, Fixity Information, and Access Rights Information) as relevant to the Content Data Object does not mean that those concerns are any less important for other data objects or at other levels, for example, it is important to apply reference, fixity, provenance, context and access rights to Representation Information, or to any other information the Archive is preserving.<span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space> </span><s><span style='color:red'>Definition of these terms as relevant to the Content Data Object is simply to ease discussion of these concepts at the Content Data Object level.</span></s><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I suggest deleting the last sentence because it does not make sense to me.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Change<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b>Content Information</b>:<span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space><b> </b></span><span style='letter-spacing:-.2pt'>A set of information that is the original target of preservation. It is an Information Object composed of its Content Data Object and its Representation Information.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>To<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b>Content Information</b>:<span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space><b> </b></span><span style='letter-spacing:-.2pt'>A set of information that is<span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space> </span><span style='color:red'>a</span><span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space> </span><s><span style='color:red'>the original</span></s><span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space><span style='color:red'> </span></span>target of preservation. It is an Information Object composed of its Content Data Object and its Representation Information.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>There are a few other places the change “the original” to “a” would also be needed.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Add to the end of section 4.2.1.4 Taxonomy of Information Object Classes Used by OAIS<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:red'>Content Information is any Information Object which is being preserved by the Archive.<span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:red'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t know an easy way to put this into the UML diagram.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Also add the end of section 4.2.1.4.1 Content Information:<span class=gmail-m2055665613139594563gmail-m-8345066357735914394apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:red'>Any Information Object being preserved by the Archive, such as Representation Information, PDI etc., may also be considered to be Content Information.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>..David<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>_______________________________________________<br>MOIMS-DAI mailing list<br></span><a href="mailto:MOIMS-DAI@mailman.ccsds.org" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#954F72'>MOIMS-DAI@mailman.ccsds.org</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><br></span><a href="https://mailman.ccsds.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/moims-dai" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#954F72'>https://mailman.ccsds.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/moims-dai</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>MOIMS-DAI mailing list<br><a href="mailto:MOIMS-DAI@mailman.ccsds.org" target="_blank">MOIMS-DAI@mailman.ccsds.org</a><br><a href="https://mailman.ccsds.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/moims-dai" target="_blank">https://mailman.ccsds.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/moims-dai</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>MOIMS-DAI mailing list<br><a href="mailto:MOIMS-DAI@mailman.ccsds.org" target="_blank">MOIMS-DAI@mailman.ccsds.org</a><br><a href="https://mailman.ccsds.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/moims-dai" target="_blank">https://mailman.ccsds.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/moims-dai</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>