Archival Information Package, a standard format for long-term digital preservation in library and archive sciences. Contains content, metadata, and preservation information.
Acronym formed from the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model developed by NASA and later adopted as ISO standard 14721. Created in the 1990s to address the challenge of preserving digital information over long periods.
AIP represents humanity's attempt to solve one of the digital age's greatest challenges: how do you preserve information when the technology to read it keeps changing? It's essentially a time capsule format, designed to be self-documenting so that future archivists can understand and access the content even if our current systems become obsolete.
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