Arkivering av digital information

Abstract

The problems of recreating digital stored information is something that affects different organisations. The importance of studying how to structure data, when it comes to archiving, is to obtain a standard for further presentations of archived material. The purpose of this essay has been to create a general model, based on existing theories about information structuring, in a combination with an object oriented point of view, which resulted in our information structuring process. To evaluate our model we performed two case studies that gave us a foundation to draw the conclusion that it did have the general characteristics we wanted it to have. Based on the results of these case studies our belief is that the information structuring process can be used by either an organisation that wants to change their routine for archiving information or an organisation that is about to launch a whole new archiving project.