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Fig. 16.4
CASPAR key components overview
Foundation which is composed of 11 Key Components built on top of a service
oriented Framework. And the CASPAR Framework guarantees portability and inter-
operability (i.e. compliance to WS-I open standard) with existing systems and
platforms.
As shown in Fig.
16.4
, the CASPAR Foundation provides a set of fully
conformant with the OAIS Information Model by managing key concepts
such as:
•
Representation Information and Designated Community
•
Preservation Description Information
•
Information Packaging
The key components identified in the CASPAR Architecture (Fig.
16.5
) may be
grouped in 6 main facade blocks:
1. Information Package Management
2. Information Access
3. Designated Community and Knowledge Management
4. Communication Management
5. Security Management
6. Provenance Management
16.5 Information Package Management
As shown in Fig.
16.6
, the block supports Data Producers in the following main
steps:
1. Ingest Content Information
2. Create Information Package, by adding also
