OCFL Elevator Pitch

[awoods]

We should establish a concise "elevator pitch" for OCFL, likely based on the "Need" section.

[zimeon]

My one-liner is something along the lines of "It's like Bagit with efficient support for versioning and modernized a bit, plus a scheme for arranging objects"

[rosy1280]

How about something like: OCFL is an application independent way of storing versioned digital objects.

[awoods]

@rosy1280 : "...with a focus on long term digital preservation."

[rosy1280]

The OCFL represents a specification of the community’s collective recommendations addressing five primary requirements: 1) completeness, so that a repository can be rebuilt from the files it stores, 2) parsability, both by humans and machines, to ensure content can be understood in the absence of original software, 3) robustness against errors, corruption, and migration between storage technologies, 4) versioning, so repositories can update and make changes to objects that allow the history of the object to persist, and 5) ability to store content on various storage infrastructures including cloud object stores.

[awoods]

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