| AIP | Archival Information Package |
| CCDSD | Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
| DAMS | Digital Assets Management System-an infrastructure providing core services to the University of Texas' digital content producing community. |
| DAR | Digital Assets Repository Project-the pilot project investigating the necessary steps for development of the Digital Assets Management System. |
| Digital Archive | A documented information system employing information architecture configured to assure trustworthiness and long-term retention of digital assets. |
| DIP | Dissemination Information Package-the means by with information in a digital archive is conveyed to a user of the archive. The term comes from the Open Archives Information System model. |
| DLSD | Digital Library Services Division |
| Dublin Core | An accepted metadata schema created out of a cooperative venture involving academic institutions. The conference at which the schema was developed took place in Dublin, Ohio. |
| FRBR | Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records |
| Information Package | The generic entity used in the Open Archives Information System model to label an information object. (i.e., a digital assets, or a digital file, or a book, or a painting, any information entity.) |
| Ingest | The process by which an information entity is accessioned to an Open Archival Information System modeled repository. |
| Long-term | In the digital context this may take on a difference meaning that is traditional in the analog/paper based information environment. Long-term retention is conservatively five to ten years, however, the intent underlying intent is to preserve digital information as long as possible since the suture value and any information object is indeterminable by a contemporary audience. |
| Metadata registry | A local collection of metadata with guidelines and structure in tact for the effective management of that metadata. A Union Catalog of digital asset metadata. |
| METS | Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard-The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation. (from the Library of Congress web site.) |
| MODS | Metadata Object Description Schema-is intended to be able to carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records. It includes a subset of MARC fields and uses language-based tags rather than numeric ones, in some cases regrouping elements from the MARC 21 bibliographic format. MODS is expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained by the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress with input from users. (from the Library of Congress web site.) |
| OAI | Open Archives Initiative-The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. (from the OAIS web site.) |
| OAIS | Open Archival Information System-an archive, consisting of an organization of people and systems, that has accepted the responsibility to preserve information and make it available for a Designated Community. It meets a set of such responsibilities as defined in this document and this allows an OAIS archive to be distinguished from other uses of the term ‘archive’. The model provides a framework for the understanding and increased awareness of archival concepts needed for long-term digital information preservation and access, and for describing and comparing architectures and operations of existing and future archives. It also guides the identification and production of OAIS related standards. (from the OAIS web site.) |
| Preservation | Digital Preservation is a viable concept despite the ephemerality of digital media. The preservation of information in digital form is a concept that revolutionizes the way in which traditional information professions have viewed saving information for posterity. In the past preservation was based in an analog, predominantly paper world. To achieve digital preservation it is necessary to cease thinking about preservation in traditional ways and to conceive as information and particularly digital information as an organic entity requiring a very unique means for safeguarding against its inherent ephemerality. The current trend to achieving this goal is the development of digital archives in which the persistence of a digital asset is achieved through a a diligent and conscientious system of procedures holding caretakers accountable for their custodianship of digital objects. |
| SDSCC | Sand Diego Super Computing Center-SDSC's mission is to develop and use technology to advance science. |
| Service Level Agreement | An agreement between the DAMS system and the digital collection's owner for the services provided by the system. |
| SIP | Submission Information Package-the digital assets bundled with their metadata to be accessioned to the digital archives. |