Qu’est ce qu’Archivematica?¶

OAIS de source ouverte¶

Archivematica provides an integrated suite of free and open-source tools that allows users to process digital objects from ingest to archival storage and access in compliance with the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) functional model and other digital preservation standards and best practices.

All of the Archivematica code is released under a GNU Affero General Public License and Archivematica documentation is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Réduire les obstacles vers des pratiques exemplaires en matière de préservation numérique¶

The goal of the Archivematica project is to give archivists and librarians with limited technical and financial capacity the tools, methodology and confidence to begin preserving digital information today. The project has conducted a thorough OAIS use case and process analysis to synthesize the specific, concrete steps that must be carried out to comply with the OAIS functional model from Ingest to Access. Through deployment experiences and user feedback, the project has expanded even beyond OAIS to address analysis and arrangement of transferred digital objects into SIPs and allow for archival appraisal at multiple decision points. Wherever possible, these requirements are assigned to software tools within the Archivematica system. If it is not possible to automate these steps in the current system iteration, they are incorporated and documented into a manual procedure to be carried out by the end user. This ensures that the entire set of preservation requirements is being carried out, even in the early, pre-1.0 system releases. In short, the system is conceptualized as an integrated whole of technology, people and procedures, not just a set of software tools. For institutions that want technical assistance to install and customize Archivematica, optional technical support services are provided by Artefactual Systems.

Toutes les infrastructures logicielles, de documentation et de développement sont disponibles gratuitement et publiées sous les licences AGPL et Creative Commons pour donner aux utilisateurs la liberté d’étudier, d’adapter et de redistribuer ces ressources selon leurs besoins. Plutôt que de dépenser du précieuses ressources financière pour faire l’achat de licences de logiciels propriétaires qui restreignent ces libertés, le projet Archivematica encourage les institutions de la mémoire qui s’attaquent aux défis de la préservation numérique à mettre leurs ressources financières et techniques en commun dans des projets comme Archivematica, afin de maximiser leurs investissements à long terme et d’en faire profiter leurs collègues , leurs utilisateurs et la communauté professionnelle dans son ensemble.

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