PREMIS—Preservation Metadata
Implementation Strategies
Objective: To develop and
recommend best practices for implementing preservation
metadata.
Overview: This project has
been a joint effort of RLG and the library consortium OCLC.
Preservation metadata is information that supports digital preservation
processes. A key component of archival systems, metadata helps to
ensure that digital materials remain usable over the long term.
Following publication of the PREMIS Working Group's
preservation metadata dictionary, a maintenancy activity was launched
for that guide and supporting XML implementation schemas, hosted by the
Library of Congress. Work is underway to develop a maintenance agency,
to fund inter-institutional PREMIS operability testing, and to apply
the results to revisions of the data dictionary and XML schemas.
In 2005 PREMIS working group won the prestigious UK
Digital Preservation Award. At the ceremony held at the
British Library, award judges stated they "were impressed by the work
PREMIS has done in compiling a 'data dictionary' identifying core
digital preservation metadata, which they have supported with practical
examples and a software protocol. A key factor in the decision was the
international scope of PREMIS, and the consensus building and
collaboration that is so crucial in so many digital preservation
issues."
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