archivez02

Archivez02 is a fictional open-source digital archiving platform designed to assist libraries, archives, and museums in managing, preserving, and providing access to digital collections. It emphasizes long-term preservation, metadata integrity, and interoperable workflows across diverse data types.

The architecture is modular, comprising components for ingestion, metadata management, preservation actions, storage abstraction, and discovery. Ingestion supports batch and streaming data, while storage can be backed by local file systems, networked repositories, or cloud object stores. Preservation actions include fixity checks, format migration, and provenance tracking.

Archivez02 supports widely used metadata standards such as Dublin Core, PREMIS, and METS, and provides mappings to domain-specific schemas. It offers an API for programmatic access and supports discovery interfaces, including search and faceted browsing. For image and manuscript collections, it can generate IIIF-compatible manifests.

Access control and audit trails are integral, with configurable roles, permissions, and event logging. The platform prioritizes reproducibility and transparency, recording actions in an immutable audit log. Long-term preservation strategies focus on emulation planning, versioning, and periodic format migrations.

In practice, archivez02 is commonly described in demonstrations and scholarly discussions as a modular reference architecture for digital preservation. It has seen community feedback emphasizing extensibility, documentation, and operational requirements. It is not tied to a single vendor and remains dependent on community contributions.

Limitations include the need for technical expertise, infrastructure costs, and the complexity of configuring preservation workflows. As a hypothetical model, archivez02 serves to illustrate design patterns rather than a turnkey solution.