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7 Differences Between Version 1 and 2
The most significant change between version 1 and version 2 of this Standard is that the information in the Specifications has been reorganised to aid clarity and understanding. The three original Specifications have been broken into five Specifications and each Specification only contains requirements. Explanatory information has been moved to six associated Advices (one Advice for each Specification and one overview Advice).
The contents of the Specifications have been changed in the following ways (details of the changes can be found in the Advice associated with each Specification):
- Specification 1 (Preservation requirements) has been altered so that it only contains those requirements dealing with the long-term preservation of records. General recordkeeping functions have been deleted as these are dealt with in many published standards.
- Additional elements have been added to Specification 2 (metadata scheme); these are primarily related to the changes in Specification 3. The definitions of some of the elements have been changed. The values accepted for some elements have been tightened.
- Specification 3 has been modified to focus exclusively on the VERS Encapsulated Object and now gives more precise details about the XML requirements. An additional VEO type has been added, Modified VEO, to replace the onion records of Version 1. Attributes have been added to allow documents to be structured.
- Details about the accepted long-term preservation formats have been moved from Specification 3 to a separate specification (Specification 4). This is to make clear the distinction between the VEO that encapsulates the record, and the accepted formats that represent the documents in the record.
- Information about media has been moved from Specification 3 to the new Specification 5. This scope of this Specification has been broadened to cover mechanisms by which records are exported to PROV.
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