The Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (Sun PASIG) is a Sun Microsystems Inc.-sponsored community. There are no fees. Semi-annual meetings are planned. There is a November 14-16, 2007 meeting in Paris. It is open to institutions and commercial organizations interested in working with Sun Microsystems, Inc. in learning and sharing practical experiences in the following:
- Comparison of high-level OAIS architectures, services-oriented architecture work, and use cases
- Sharing of best practices and software code
- Cooperation on standard, open, ‘in-a-box’ solutions around repository technologies
- Review of storage architectures and trends and their relation to preservation and archiving architectures and eResearch data set management
- Discussion of the uses of commercial third party and community-developed solutions
The organization is focused on sharing open computing solutions and best practices. But while sharing information about the state-of-the-art developments in standards and open source is important, this is not a standards-setting organization. It is a place to share practical experiences, successes, pain points, and potential topics for more collaboration. Sun does reserve the right to exclude direct competitors from the conference proceedings.