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The Universal Object Format – An Archiving and Exchange Format for Digital Objects

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 4172))

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Long-term preservation is a complicate and difficult task for a digital library. The key to handle this task is the inclusion of technical metadata. These metadata should be packed together with the files for an exchange between digital archives. Archival systems should handle the data in the Data Management and use it for preservation planning. The German project kopal has defined for this purpose the Universal Object Format (UOF) and enhanced the archival system DIAS with generic functions to support flexible handling of preservation metadata.

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Steinke, T. (2006). The Universal Object Format – An Archiving and Exchange Format for Digital Objects. In: Gonzalo, J., Thanos, C., Verdejo, M.F., Carrasco, R.C. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11863878_66

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