ISO/TR 10255:2009 PDF

ISO/TR 10255:2009 gives recommendations and provides guidance for maintaining archival optical disk collections. It describes the various services that would be necessary for the management of an optical media-based system to ensure a successful implementation of this technology.

ISO/TR 10255:2009 also

• provides guidance in the maintenance of data residing on on-line, off-line, and near-line digital optical storage devices;
• establishes a plan to ensure the migration path of digital information from early and current technology and optical media to future technologies and media;
• provides guidance for the short- and long-term effect of the finite life of digital optical storage devices.

ISO/TR 10255:2009 also describes all forms of optical disk media including write-once-read-many (WORM), magneto-optical (MO), compact disk (CD), digital versatile disk (DVD) and newer technologies.