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OAIS

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The transfer of digital information, while intending to preserve it, within the OAIS.

It is distinguished from transfers in general by three attributes:

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  1. a focus on the preservation of the full information content that needs preservation;

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  1. a perspective that the new archival implementation of the information is a replacement for the old; and

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  1. an understanding that full control and responsibility over all aspects of the transfer resides with the OAIS.