CASPAR (Cultural, Artistic, and Scientific Knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval).
From the website:
CASPAR methodological and technological solution:
- is compliant to the OAIS Reference Model – the main standard of reference in digital preservation
- is technology-neutral: the preservation environment could be implemented using any kind of emerging technology
- adopts a distributed, asynchronous, loosely coupled architecture and each key component is self-contained and portable: it may be deployed without dependencies on different platform and framework
- is domain independent: it could be applied with low additional effort to multiple domains/contexts.
- preserves knowledge and intelligibility, not just the “bits”
- guarantees the integrity and identity of the information preserved as well as the protection of digital rights
FYI: OAIS Reference Model
As a librarian, you will be confronted with claims similar to these in vendor literature, grant applications and other marketing materials.
Questions:
- Pick one of these claims. What documentation/software produced by the project would you review to evaluate the claim you have chosen?
- What other materials do you think would be relevant to your review?
- Perform the actual review (10 – 15 pages, with citations, project)