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Participation of Guy Marechal to the PASIG-2008
San Francisco (May 27 to 30)

Foreword

The PASIG-2008 has been held in San Francisco from Tuesday, May 27 to the Thursday, May 29. Additional meetings have been held the Friday morning.
A large audience (about 160 persons) of real specialists on archiving and preservation were attending most of the sessions.

You will find attached a copy of most of the presentations and several related “white papers” that I collected on the web or have obtained locally from their authors. I have not included those related to the curation and a few others which seems to me more anecdotic. I have however included two interesting papers presented the Friday.
For web access to all the presentations, see this link

My choice of local copies is a direct implementation of the rules applicable for persistent archiving.

I attended to the PASIG with the sponsoring mainly of TITAN and for the remaining costs of MEMNON and PROSIP.

• On behalf of TITAN, I presented a paper and commented a 4 pages explanatory leaflet on the AXIS architecture (including the distribution of 90 copies).
• On behalf of MEMNON, TITAN and my-self, I studied the presented architectural trends and product information; I promoted the AXIS architecture; I entered in E-mail contact with key persons, in particular M. Joe Hartley (Vice-President of SUN), M. Adoté Chilloh (Directeur-adjoint à la BnF), M. Chris Wood (Technology director of SUN).

My key conclusions

Notice that my key conclusions will be detailed in the architectural document of the MEMORIES project.

1. High level
2. The concept of "Fixed assets"
3. The concept of "Flat" and "Entity" models for the "Information Objects"
4. The data management of "Information Objects"
5. The URI approach for "fixed information assets" (Combining URN with URL)
6. The persistence management of the "fixed assets"
7. The place of the AIP
8. The debate magnetic or optical and tapes versus disks
9. The formats
10. The "Analogue" to "Digital" conversions
11. The ST5800 honeycomb of SUN
12. Wrappers
13. Retrieval
14. Example of the OXFORD system