Research Document No. 04 Is the OAIS Reference Model Enough for Archival Science? An Archival Perspective on the Most Influential Model of Digital Preservation
PDS & Ged/A | Research Notes Research Document No. 04 Is the OAIS Reference Model Enough for Archival Science? An Archival Perspective on the Most Influential Model of Digital Preservation 25 February 2026 🌎 Open Science The PDS & Ged/A Research Notes are part of an ongoing Open Science initiative dedicated to sharing research questions, emerging ideas, preliminary findings and research agendas in Digital Archival Science. Rather than presenting only completed research, we seek to make the research process itself visible, inviting archivists, records professionals, researchers, students and institutions to participate in the development of knowledge. Welcome back to our research laboratory Over the past three Research Notes we have been following a path that emerged quite naturally during our Permanent Research Seminar. We began by asking whether digital transformation had actually changed the foundations of Archival Science or whether it had simply made its enduring que...