he technology used to implement them. [Archives] 
n., A strategy that seeks to make the architecture of archival information systems used to preserve digital
records independent of the technology used to implement them. [Archives] 
n., A data type, which may be simple or complex, that is independent of specific hardware or software, such that an object in this data type can be transferred from a source platform to an arbitrary target platform with no significant alteration of essential attributes or behavio