8.4: Coordinate Archives

This process shall coordinate the information exchange between different Manage Archived Data functions represented through the Other Archives terminator. This process shall allow other archives to share data collected by other archive functions to share the data in response to local requests from users systems. This process shall use data collected from different archives to build a set of global schema which the data archive definitions for the local archive plus any archives known to the local archive. This process shall provide the global schema to the local Manage Archive function. This process shall receive the schema of the local archive to share with other archive functions. This process shall provide data to those other archives when requested. This process shall support analysis, data fusion, and data mining of archived information across geographically dispersed archives.

This process is associated with the Archived Data System physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

• Archive Data Repository

This process is associated with the following data flows:

• foa-archive_coordination_data
• global_schema
• local_schema
• other_archive_data
• other_archive_data_input
• other_archive_data_request
• other_archive_data_request_input
• toa-archive_coordination_data