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14.5.3 Supply Relationship
The supply mechanism should simply
be an indicator of any impediment to
the current supply of an information
entity such as an embargo or assertion
of copyright. The attributes of a the
supply relationship are
Notation used
Supply possible: Yes
Supply possible: No
Supply possible (Yes/No)
Description of supply impediment
Fig. 14.6
Notation for preservation information flow diagram - supply relationships
14.5.4 Supply Process
The supply process is any process car-
ried out on information supplied
by the
stakeholder in order to produce the in-
formation object. Its attributes are
Notation used
Intake Process
Name
Description of process e.g.
dump of a database table into
a csv file, archiving of public
website or reformatting of
data files
Fig. 14.7
Notation for preservation information flow diagram - supply process
14.5.5 Packaging Relationship
The only required attribute of
the packaging relationship is
that it links an Information
entity to at least one standard
OAIS reference model compo-
nent of an AIP. However many
implementations of packaging
such as XFDU require additional
information.
Notation used
Reference information
Provenance information
Context information
Fixity information
Structure information
Semantic information
Other information
Content
Fig. 14.8
Notation for preservation information flow diagram - packaging relationship
