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Digital Migration


The transfer of digital information, while intending to preserve it, within the OAIS. It is distinguished from transfers in general by three attributes:

  • a focus on the preservation of the full information content that needs preservation;

  • a perspective that the new archival implementation of the information is a replacement for the old; and

  • an understanding that full control and responsibility over all aspects of the transfer resides with the OAIS.