<div dir="ltr"><div>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".</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Bob<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Robert R. Downs, PhD<br>
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<div>Systems Engineering Division (IT)<br>The National Archives and Records Administration<br>Erma Ora Byrd
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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> <br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">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:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Hi David,<div><br></div><div>There is no valid reason to change the Content Information definition from ‘<font color="#ff2600">the original target of preservation’</font> to ‘<font color="#ff2600">a target of preservation</font>’. 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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers-</div><div>Don</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 2, 2019, at 10:06 AM, David Giaretta <<a href="mailto:david@giaretta.org" target="_blank">david@giaretta.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394WordSection1" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span>David Giaretta <<a href="mailto:david@giaretta.org" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">david@giaretta.org</a>><span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span>02 April 2019 13:12<br><b>To:</b><span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span>'Mark Conrad' <<a href="mailto:mark.conrad@nara.gov" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">mark.conrad@nara.gov</a>>; 'John Garrett' <<a href="mailto:garrett@his.com" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">garrett@his.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span>CDO text<u></u><u></u></span></div></div></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">My suggestions for the additional text:<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Change in current draft from:<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Preservation Description Information (PDI</b>): The<b><span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>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.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To:<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Preservation Description Information (PDI</b>): The<b><span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>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.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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-m_2055665613139594563gmail-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><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I suggest deleting the last sentence because it does not make sense to me.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Change<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Content Information</b>:<b><span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Content Information</b>:<b><span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt">A set of information that is<span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:red">a</span><span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span><s><span style="color:red">the original</span></s><span style="color:red"><span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>target of preservation. It is an Information Object composed of its Content Data Object and its Representation Information.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There are a few other places the change “the original” to “a” would also be needed.<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Add to the end of section 4.2.1.4 Taxonomy of Information Object Classes Used by OAIS<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:red">Content Information is any Information Object which is being preserved by the Archive.<span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:red"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I don’t know an easy way to put this into the UML diagram.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Also add the end of section 4.2.1.4.1 Content Information:<span class="gmail-m_2055665613139594563gmail-m_-8345066357735914394Apple-converted-space"> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><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.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">..David<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div></div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">MOIMS-DAI mailing list</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><a href="mailto:MOIMS-DAI@mailman.ccsds.org" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">MOIMS-DAI@mailman.ccsds.org</a><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://mailman.ccsds.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/moims-dai" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">https://mailman.ccsds.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/moims-dai</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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