OAIS in the preservation of digital audio objects

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 of for audio sound archivists, who face the challenge of managing vast volumes of digital objects produced in the systematic creation of digitized audio collections. In this situation, many document processes, the roles of personnel and the techniques and technologies used in analog 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 object after it has been digitized. In view of this, this paper adopts the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) as a benchmark in the long-term design, development and management of reliable digitized audio archives.