Thursday, January 09, 2014: The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology recently notified the e-Governance Standard for Preservation Information Documentation (eGOV-PID) of Electronic Records, with an aim to standardise the digital preservation of e-governance records.
As per the notification, the standard is aimed at automatically capturing the preservation information (metadata) of an e-record through an e-government system, following the creation of the final e-record.
The implementation of this standard will help in producing a valid Submission Information Package (SIP) for archival and preservation, as per the requirements specified in the ISO 14721: 2012 Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS) Reference Model.
Developed by the R&D team of the Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, the standard includes the best practices and guidelines for production of preservable electronic records. Expert committees constituted by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) were assigned the task to further enhance these best practices through high-level reviews.
The digital preservation standard is now applicable to all e-governance applications across the country, as per the notification.
