E-ARK AIP
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The E-ARK Archival Information Package (AIP) specification describes the pan-European standard for packaging data and metadata for long-term storage. The specification is built on and reuses fully the Common Specification for Information Packages but extends it with aspects relevant in long-term storage. More explicitly the AIP specification defines straightforward possibilities for extending the initial set of data and metadata with information that is created by preservation procedures, like additional representations of the data, and metadata about these preservation procedures. At the same time the specification provides methods that allow long-term archives to protect the integrity and authenticity of the package throughout these procedures.