Definition

A set of activities and the means used by the Information Producer (i.e., donor, representative from Office of Primary Responsibility, Principal Investigator, etc.) as well as the University Archives to ingest a given set of information into the Archives Permanent Collection. Producer-Archive Projects produce submission agreements that result in accessions.

Phases in a Producer-Archive Project

Producer-Archive Projects involve a series of interactions that occur in four phases:

• Preliminary phase
• Formal definition phase
• Transfer phase
• Validation phase

Producer-Archive Project  ID

• Archives assign a unique Project ID to each Producer-Archive Project.
  
  
• The Producer-Archive Project ID is a mandatory attribute assigned by the Archive to ensure uniqueness across all such Producer-Archive Projects involving the Archive.
  
  
• The Producer-Archive Project ID is a mandatory attribute within each SIP that enables the Archive to uniquely identify the project to which a SIP belongs and thus to identify the MOT and constraints document applicable to that SIP.
  
  
• Offices of Primary Responsibility (OPRs) transfer University Records to the Archives in accordance with a single DalCLASS Producer-Archive Project established under the auspices of the University Records Management Policy. Each OPR receives a unique Office ID that also acts as a unique Producer Source ID.
  
  
• Private records donated to the University are guided by individual Producer-Archive Projects. Each project receives a unique Project IDs derived from unique Collection IDs registered in the /wiki/spaces/APM/pages/90538072.

Producer-Archive Project document checklist

• Feasibility study
  
  
• Cost analysis
  
  
• Summary of preliminary phase 
  
  
• Submission agreement
  
  
• Model of Objects for Transfer (MOT)
  
  
• Data dictionary: reference the Libraries' Documentation Wiki Glossary.

Related terms

Acquisition

Accession

Producer-Archive Project Identifier

Ingest

Transfer

Documentation (Dalhousie Libraries)

/wiki/spaces/APM/pages/901840926

References

ISO 20652:2006 - Producer-archive interface -- methodology abstract standard (PAIMAS), See CCSDS 651.0-M-1: https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/651x0m1.pdf

ISO 20104:2015 - Producer-archive interface specification (PAIS). See CCSDS 651.1-B-1: https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/651x1b1.pdf.

Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems. Producer-Archive Interface Specification (PAIS) – A Tutorial. CCSDS 651.2-G-1 (September 2016). https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/651x2g1.pdf