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      • OAIS Documents

        • Overview
        • Designated Community
        • Definition of AIP
        • Definition of DIP
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        • Mandatory Responsibilities
        • Preservation and Storage

      • TDR 3.0 Organizational Infrastructure

        • Overview
        • 3.1 Governance and Organizational Viability
          • 3.1.1 Mission Statement
          • 3.1.2 Preservation strategic plan
            • 3.1.2 Preservation strategic plan
            • 3.1.2.1 Succession, contingency, escrow plans
            • 3.1.2.2 Monitor environment for succession triggers
          • 3.1.3 Collection Policy
        • 3.2 Organizational Structure and Staffing
          • 3.2.1 Identified duties and appointed staff
            • 3.2.1 Identified duties and appointed staff
            • 3.2.1.1 Identified and established duties
            • 3.2.1.2 Appropriate number of staff
            • 3.2.1.3 Professional Development Program
        • 3.3 Procedural Accountability and Policy Framework
          • 3.3.1 Designated community
          • 3.3.2 Preservation policies
            • 3.3.2 Preservation policies
            • 3.3.2.1 Review and update preservation policies
          • 3.3.3 Documented history of changes
          • 3.3.4 Commit to Transparency
          • 3.3.5 Information integrity measurements
          • 3.3.6 Self-assessment and external certification
        • 3.4 Financial Sustainability
          • 3.4.1 Business planning processes
          • 3.4.2 Financial transparency, compliance, and audits
          • 3.4.3 Risk, benefit, investment, expenditure
        • 3.5 Contracts, Licenses, and Liabilities
          • 3.5.1 Contracts or deposit agreements for content
            • 3.5.1 Contracts or deposit agreements for content
            • 3.5.1.1 Agreements for preservation rights
            • 3.5.1.2 Completeness of agreements with depositors
            • 3.5.1.3 Policies about preservation responsibility
            • 3.5.1.4 Policies about liability and rights challenges
          • 3.5.2 Track and manage property rights/restrictions

      • TDR 4.0 Digital Object Management

        • Overview
        • 4.1 Ingest: Acquisition of Content
          • 4.1.1 Content information and information properties
            • 4.1.1 Content information and information properties
            • 4.1.1.1 Identification of information properties
            • 4.1.1.2 Record of content information
            • 4.1.1.3 Identification of Preservation Objectives
            • 4.1.1.4 Record of Preservation Objectives
          • 4.1.2 Information required at deposit
          • 4.1.3 Recognition and parsing of SIPs
          • 4.1.4 Verification of Producer
          • 4.1.5 Verification of SIP
          • 4.1.6 Control over digital objects
          • 4.1.7 Communication with producer/depositor
          • 4.1.8 Acquisition records
        • 4.2 Ingest: Creation of the AIP
          • 4.2.1 Definition for each AIP or class
            • 4.2.1 Definition for each AIP or class
            • 4.2.1.1 Definition of each AIP
            • 4.2.1.2 Identify which definition applies to which AIP
          • 4.2.2 Description of how AIPs are constructed from SIPs
          • 4.2.3 Document final disposition of all SIPs
            • 4.2.3 Document final disposition of all SIPs
            • 4.2.3.1 Procedures for SIPs not incorporated
            • 4.2.3.2 Convert SIP components into AIP components
            • 4.2.3.3 Add conversion provenance to AIPs
          • 4.2.4 Persistent unique identifiers for AIPs
            • 4.2.4 Persistent unique identifiers for AIPs
            • 4.2.4.1 Uniquely identify each AIP
              • 4.2.4.1 Uniquely identify each AIP
              • 4.2.4.1.1 Have unique identifiers
              • 4.2.4.1.2 Assign and maintain persistent identifiers
              • 4.2.4.1.3 Processes for identifier changes
              • 4.2.4.1.4 List identifiers and check duplicates
              • 4.2.4.1.5 Identifiers adequate now and in future
            • 4.2.4.2 Linking and resolution services
          • 4.2.5 Authoritative Representation Information
            • 4.2.5 Authoritative Representation Information
            • 4.2.5.1 Identify file types
            • 4.2.5.2 Determine necessary Representation Information
            • 4.2.5.3 Access to requisite Representation Information
            • 4.2.5.4 Persistently associate Representation Information
          • 4.2.6 Acquiring PDI for Content Data Objects
            • 4.2.6 Acquiring PDI for Content Data Objects
            • 4.2.6.1 Documented processes for acquiring PDI
            • 4.2.6.2 Execute documented processes for acquiring PDI
            • 4.2.6.3 PDI persistently associated with content
          • 4.2.7 Content Information understandable at creation
            • 4.2.7 Content Information understandable at creation
            • 4.2.7.1 Testing understandability
            • 4.2.7.2 Execute testing process
            • 4.2.7.3 Remediate if understandability fails
          • 4.2.8 Verify each AIP for completeness and correctness
          • 4.2.9 Independent integrity verification
          • 4.2.10 Contemporaneous records of AIP creation
        • 4.3 Preservation Planning
          • 4.3.1 Documented preservation strategies
          • 4.3.2 Monitoring the preservation environment
            • 4.3.2 Monitoring the preservation environment
            • 4.3.2.1 Notify on inadequate Representation Information
          • 4.3.3 Change preservation plans from monitoring
            • 4.3.3 Change preservation plans from monitoring
            • 4.3.3.1 Gather extra Representation Information
          • 4.3.4 Evidence of preservation effectiveness
          • 4.3.5 Documented AIP export plan
        • 4.4 AIP Preservation
          • 4.4.1 Bit-level storage specifications
            • 4.4.1 Bit-level storage specifications
            • 4.4.1.1 Content Information preservation
            • 4.4.1.2 Monitoring integrity of AIPs
          • 4.4.2 AIP storage and preservation records
            • 4.4.2 AIP storage and preservation records
            • 4.4.2.1 AIP procedures
            • 4.4.2.2 Compliance with specification
        • 4.5 Information Management
          • 4.5.1 Minimum discovery information requirements
          • 4.5.2 Descriptive information for each AIP
          • 4.5.3 Bi-directional AIP and description linkages
            • 4.5.3 Bi-directional AIP and description linkages
            • 4.5.3.1 Maintaining Associations
        • 4.6 Access Management
          • 4.6.1 Comply with Access Policies
            • 4.6.1 Comply with Access Policies
            • 4.6.1.1 Log access management failures
          • 4.6.2 Dissemination traceable to originals
            • 4.6.2 Dissemination traceable to originals
            • 4.6.2.1 Act on problem reports from users

      • TDR 5.0 Infrastructure and Security

        • Overview
        • 5.1 Technical Infrastructure Risk Management
          • 5.1.1 Manage risks to preservation operations
            • 5.1.1 Manage risks to preservation operations
            • 5.1.1.1 Employ technology watches
              • 5.1.1.1 Employ technology watches
              • 5.1.1.1.1 Appropriate hardware technologies
              • 5.1.1.1.2 Monitor hardware change notifications
              • 5.1.1.1.3 Evaluate hardware changes
              • 5.1.1.1.4 Funding to replace hardware
              • 5.1.1.1.5 Appropriate software technologies
              • 5.1.1.1.6 Monitor software change notifications
              • 5.1.1.1.7 Evaluate software changes
              • 5.1.1.1.8 Funding to replace software
            • 5.1.1.2 Adequate backup support
            • 5.1.1.3 Detect bit corruption or loss
              • 5.1.1.3 Detect bit corruption or loss
              • 5.1.1.3.1 Record and report corruption incidents
            • 5.1.1.4 React to new security updates
            • 5.1.1.5 Storage media and hardware change
            • 5.1.1.6 Documented critical processes
              • 5.1.1.6 Documented critical processes
              • 5.1.1.6.1 Change management process
              • 5.1.1.6.2 Test effect of process changes
            • 5.1.1.7 Risk plan for failures affecting copies
          • 5.1.2 Manage number and location of copies
            • 5.1.2 Manage number and location of copies
            • 5.1.2.1 Ensure copies are synchronized
        • 5.2 Security Risk Management
          • 5.2.1 Systematic security risk analysis
          • 5.2.2 Controls for defined security risks
          • 5.2.3 Staff roles and authorizations
          • 5.2.4 Disaster preparedness and recovery plan

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    Downloads

    Updated March 14, 2023

    Download the DART installer for your system. The current version is 2.0.22 (released March 14, 2023).

    Mac: https://s3.amazonaws.com/aptrust.public.download/DART/DART-2.0.22.dmg

    Windows: https://s3.amazonaws.com/aptrust.public.download/DART/DART+Setup+2.0.22.exe

    Linux: https://s3.amazonaws.com/aptrust.public.download/DART/DART_2.0.22_amd64.deb

    Double-click the installer after download and follow the prompts on screen.

    For DART Runner, see DART Runner Downloads

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