Make sure your development of components or end-to-end solutions preserve data safely and in line with European standards, so your clients can trust your applications.
1. Legislation and standards
Since there is no European Union Directive that governs electronic archiving, you should start by checking how local legal obligations regulate archiving activities in your Member State.
The main standard for electronic archiving is the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS): ISO 14721:2012. This model is based on “Information Packages” defined as logical containers used to delimit and identify the Information Object(s) to be archived and preserved and description information used to facilitate searches.
eArchiving Initiative maintains a set of technical specifications for the Information Packages which helps you to develop interoperable solutions.
2. Market needs and requirements
In addition to requirements from legal obligations, when gathering the needs from your market or target user group, the eArchiving Initiative provides information which can help you.
The E-ARK Knowledge Centre provides a comprehensive set of services that allow users to understand, contribute and validate good practices relating to information governance. Specifically, the eArchiving Reference Architecture is intended to facilitate the understanding of the motivations, stakeholders needs, and business processes around electronic archiving.
3. Develop your software with the help of our services
eArchiving documentation and support services are available to help you design your electronic archiving software and components in line with international standards. Our software components demonstrate how standards-based technical specifications can be applied to the various phases of the archival workflow (ingestion, preservation, and access).
eArchiving offers both mix and match components, as well as end-to-end solutions, simply pick the components that suit your needs. You can also use our E-ARK General Model to find the best components and technologies to put together your solution.
Join our developer's community in Github to learn more and take part in discussions about the latest in archiving technologies.
4. Promote your archiving software
The eArchiving Conformance Seal can help you to promote your electronic archiving software. The eArchiving Conformance Seal list of software will be available in the EU Digital Program website.
The eArchiving Service Desk is open for your questions, comments, incidents and change requests at any point before, during or after implementation.
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