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• AIP is a package describing one archival object.
  • Archival object may be Item, Collection, Community, or Site (Site AIPs contain site-wide information). Bitstreams are included in an Item's AIP.
  • Each AIP is logically self-contained, can be restored without rest of the archive. (So you could restore a single Item, Collection or Community)
  • AIP profile favors completeness and accuracy rather than presenting the semantics of an object in a standard format. It conforms to the quirks of DSpace's internal object model rather than attempting to produce a universally understandable representation of the object. When possible, an AIP tries to use common standards to express objects.
  • An AIP can serve as a DIP (Dissemination Information Package) or SIP (Submission Information Package), especially when transferring custody of objects to another DSpace implementation.
• In contrast to SIP or DIP, the AIP should include all available DSpace structural and administrative metadata, and basic provenance information. Restoration of an archive from AIPs is not perfectly complete at this time; it is intended to recover from catastrophic loss of content and metadata, not restore the exact same archive as beforeAIPs will also describe some basic system level information (e.g. Groups and People).

AIP Structure / Format

Generally speaking, an AIP is an Zip file containing a METS manifest and all related content bitstreams.

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