Digital Archiving
Digital Archiving: outcome of processes carried out to
effect long-term retention of digital objects
Digital Archiving Service: specification of:
expected outcome (digital object’s future state)
processes required to achieve expected outcome
Minimum Level of Archiving Service: combination of
services sufficient to meet minimum requirements
collectively articulated by stakeholders:
electronic scholarly journal publishers (information producers)
libraries (information consumers)
scholars (information producers and consumers)