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CAIRO: Complex Archive Ingest for Repository Objects
Complex Archive Ingest for Repository Objects (CAIRO)
Cairo will develop a tool for ingesting complex collections of born-digital materials, with basic descriptive, preservation and relationship metadata, into a preservation repository. The project runs for 18 months until March 2008.
Overview makes reference to:
- OAIS-based Archival Information Packages (AIP)
- For adequate digital curation, institutions require tools that automatically create a METS Archival Information Package, which wraps together all the metadata needed to preserve each object.
The project focuses on archival/preservation rather than "access now" use of ingested materials.
Project reports
At the time of writing (14 June 2007), the project has produced two reports relevant to our work:
- http://cairo.paradigm.ac.uk/projectdocs/cairo_tools_listing_pv1.pdf - "Cairo tools survey: a survey of tools applicable to the preparation of digital archives for ingest into a preservation repository" (21 May 2007, Version 1.0). The report considers factors that impact re-usabilityu of existing tools, and contains a listing of some 50 or so (very rough estimate - a tabular listing one-per-line would have been useful) individual tools with very diverse functions.
- http://cairo.paradigm.ac.uk/projectdocs/cairo_project_use_cases_pv1.pdf - "Cairo use cases a survey of user scenarios applicable to the Cairo ingest tool" (21 May 2007, Version 1.0). The document tabulates a number of use-cases relavant to repository use. (To my view, many of the use-cases seem to be about repository use in general rather than ingest in particular, though I suppose - as we have found - without ingesting the right information other aspirations become moot.)
Looking at their use-cases (e.g. P8, S1) I have a strong sense that the Cairo ingest tool is seen as something that users will interact with directly on an ongoing basis. This is somewhat at odds with our emerging view that most direct user interaction should be closer to their research than the final repository. I expect that these views should be reconcilable, if CAIRO takes account of programmatic as well as direct user interactions.
Looking at the participating parties who are addressed by the CAIRO use-cases, I note a distinct lack of any users or researchers who may originate material. I suppose this is reasonable as a library-centric view. But current approaches (including our own) seem to place far more emphasis of self-archiving, so excluding researchers involvement from the use-cases seems to be rather limiting. Of course, this raises the old concerns of quality control; I strongly believe that in the digital world (where storage capacity is relatively cheap, and the volumes and diversity of preserved data exceed reasonable economics for expert curation of everything), physical archiving and quality assurance can and should be separated activities.
Keeping in contact with this work is particularly relevant for our thoughts about migration from research-group to institutional repositories, and requirements from CAIRO may well inform our proposed tools for localized data acquisition and sharing.
