Added on 19 September 2013


The DPC is commissioning a second edition of the popular Technology Watch report 'Introducing OAIS' first written by Briain Lavoie in 2004. 

'Brian's origial report has stood the test of time,' explained William Kilbride, the DPC's Executive Director. 'Although our understanding of digital preservation has changed tremendously since it was first written, the OAIS standard has changed only slowly so his original contribution has remained current for almost a decade.  Because it was the first Technology Watch Report published, it also set a benchmark for style and substance. Add to this the concise, accessible and informed prose, it's not hard to see why it remains among the most popular of our reports even after such a long time.'

The new edition, scheduled for release in 2014 will examine the change history of OAIS and will explore how the  standard now intersects with other major international standards for preservation like PREMIS which have emerged in the last few years. Other reports on preserving E-Books and Preservation with PDF have also been released to members for comment in the last month.

Because it's so popular, we expect that DPC members will want to have quite a lot of input to the new report so we're inviting comments on a draft outline of the report between now and the start of October.