Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
has
Representation
Information
Provenance
has
Fig. 3.6
Recursion - Representation information and provenance
Any piece of “metadata”, such as Provenance (to be discussed in
detail later), will itself be encoded as a Data Object, which needs
Representation Information. Representation Information as a digital
object will also need its own Provenance, as illustrated in Fig.
3.6
.
The recursion in this case might end with Provenance being a simple
text file (or piece of paper) in plain English (assuming the Designated
Community can read English) so the Representation Information
is quite simple and hence the Representation Information Network
terminates.
A formal way of showing this in OAIS is by showing that many of the concepts
that are used are Information Objects as shown in Fig.
3.7
.
Information
Object
....
Preservation
Description
Information
Content
Information
Packaging
Information
Descriptive
Information
Representation
Information
(Indicates
that the list
is not
exhaustive)
Fig. 3.7
Sub-types of information object
