Technical documentation of long-term archiving solutions at the GFBio collection data centers

This documentation address the current practice of backup/archival storage and long-term archival solutions at the individual GFBio collection data centers and implemented standard storage solutions.

It also includes a part with information on how special data types are treated. See also For information on Concepts and standards and further technical documentations.

In GFBio we distinguish several areas with need of archiving processes installed (named according OAIS terminology; see under OAIS diagram for WP5 GFBio data centers):


 * SIP= Submission information packages: archiving of original incoming files and data objects (binary data and text-based data) with documentation in detail (e. g. xls, jpg) - archival storage with timestamp


 * AIP= Archival information packages, e. g. renamed and newly organised information packages (binary data and text-based data) following the internal data structure (RDMS, multimedia data storage; see Technical documentations in GFBio Wiki) and information organisation of the single archives - periodical archival storage with timestamp


 * DIP= Dissemination information packages (binary data and text-based data) deviate substantially from SIP and AIP concerning, data structure, format and data content. DIPs (e. g. ABCD xml archives; SDD xml archives) have to be archived separately -  (periodical) archival storage with timestamp

Please see also under http://gfbio.biowikifarm.net/wiki/Concepts_and_Standards and under http://gfbio.biowikifarm.net/wiki/Technical_Documentations

Please see TOP4 under WP5 Webkonferenz 2016-01-21 Protokoll