OAIS in the digital preservation of sound archives

How can an organization provide for long-term conservation, information access and management of large volumes of digital audio contents? Currently, this question is a key concern for the audio sound archivist, who faces the challenge of managing vast volumes ofdigital objects produced in the systematic creation of digitized audio collections. In this situation, document processes, the roles of personnel and the techniques and technologies used in analogue archive management have fallen into disuse. Furthermore, a digitized audio archive collection preservation model has yet to be formulated that can serve in the long term to aid in understanding the terms, concepts and processes entailed in an audio archive after it has been digitized. In view of this, this paper adopts the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) as a reference model in the long-term design, development and management of reliable digitized audio archives.