Introduction

• Technology monitoring supports the preservation planning function described in the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) and other requirements described in international digital preservation standards
  
  
• The Technology Watch provides information on analog and digital media formats commonly found in library and archival collections

Digital preservation standards

• The OAIS reference model indicates a Data Object can be a physical object or /wiki/spaces/TW/pages/929234963
  
  
• The Producer-Archive Interface Specification (PAIS) defines types of Data Objects as part of a "Model of Objects for Transfer"
  
  
• The Technology Watch wiki uniquely identifies types of Data Objects that can be transferred into the Archives Permanent Collection
  
  
• See the technology monitoring and digital preservation standards page for more information on digital preservation standards

Documentation

• Technology monitoring and digital preservation standards
• Technical overviews
• Master list of physical objects