News and articles:
- Announcement: Workshop on PREMIS Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies, Rome, Italy, 5-6 February 2009, sponsored by Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale
- "Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information" by Priscilla Caplan, DLib Magazine, November/December 2008
- "Using METS, PREMIS and MODS for Archiving eJournals " by Angela Dappert and Markus Enders, DLib Magazine, September/October 2008
- "Battle of the Buzzwords: Flexibility vs. Interoperability When Implementing PREMIS with METS" by Rebecca Guenther, DLib Magazine, July/August 2008
- "PREMIS with a Fresh Coat of Paint: Highlights from the Revision of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata " by Brian Lavoie, DLib Magazine, May/June 2008
- PREMIS Data Dictionary version 2.0 released (April 3, 2008)
- Report on Implementing the PREMIS Data Dictionary: a survey of approaches published [PDF: 471KB /56p.]
- PREMIS has been endorsed as a METS extension schema
- Report on Rights in the PREMIS Data Model published
- PREMIS wins the 2006 Society of American Archivists' Preservation Publication Award
- Announcement: PREMIS editorial committee formed
- Announcement: PREMIS working group wins 2005 Digital Preservation Award
PREMIS Implementors' Group Forum (pig@loc.gov):
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- PREMIS Data
Dictionary for Preservation Metadata version 2.0 [PDF:3.1MB / 217p.]
This publication includes the PREMIS Introduction, the Data Dictionary, Special Topics, Methodology and Glossary. The data dictionary and report with supporting documentation are also available as separate documents:
- PREMIS Data Dictionary, version 2.0 (PDF:1.1MB/184pp.)
The PREMIS Data Dictionary for core preservation metadata needed to support the long-term preservation of digital materials. - PREMIS Introduction and Supporting Documentation (PDF:451K/51pp.)
Provides information on the background, objectives, data model, implementation and other supporting documentation for the PREMIS Data Dictionary. - PREMIS Data Dictionary Entity Hierarchical Listing
A hierarchical list by PREMIS semantic unit.
- PREMIS Data Dictionary, version 2.0 (PDF:1.1MB/184pp.)
- PREMIS schemas
- Proposed changes for PREMIS Data Dictionary version 2.0
- Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final Report of the PREMIS Working Group (version 1.0) [PDF:3.2MB / 237p.]
- Changes to PREMIS data dictionary (version 1.0) and schemas
- PREMIS Editorial Committee
- PREMIS Implementors' Group (PIG)
- Resources: articles and presentations
- Tutorials
- PREMIS Implementation Registry
- Using PREMIS with METS
- Tools
- PREMIS Information Sheet [PDF:44K]
- PREMIS Working Group Home Page [OCLC]
- PREMIS Implementation Survey [PDF: 1.24MB / 66p.]
- Comments
The PREMIS maintenance activity is responsible for maintaining, supporting, and coordinating future revisions to the PREMIS data dictionary. The Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies Working Group, convened by OCLC and RLG, initially developed the PREMIS data dictionary as a specification with the goal of creating an implementable set of "core" preservation metadata elements, with broad applicability within the digital preservation community. Supporting XML schemas allow for implementation of the core metadata element set and are maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress.
The PREMIS data dictionary and schema, version 2.0 were issued in April 2008.
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