[Sigdl-l] NISO Webinar: Metadata for Preservation: A Digital Object's Best Friend

[Cynthia Hodgson]

NISO Webinar: Metadata for Preservation: A Digital Object's Best Friend
Date: February 13, 2013
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (EST)
Event Webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/webinars/preservation

ABOUT THE WEBINAR

Over the past decade, as the scholarly community’s reliance on e-content has
increased, so too has the development of preservation-related digital
repositories. The need for descriptive, administrative, and structural
metadata for each digital object in a preservation repository was clearly
recognized by digital archivists and curators. However, in the early 2000’s,
most of the published specifications for preservation-related metadata were
either implementation specific or broadly theoretical. 

In 2003, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and Research Libraries
Group (RLG) established an international working group called PREMIS
(Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) to develop a common core
set of metadata elements for digital preservation. The first version of the
PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata and its supporting XML
schema was issued in 2005. Experience using the specification in
preservation repositories has led to several revisions, with the completion
of version 2.0 in 2008. The Data Dictionary is now in version 2.2 (July
2012) and is widely implemented in preservation repositories throughout the
world in multiple domains.

Join NISO for the February 13 webinar on Preservation Metadata to hear
viewpoints and updates from industry leaders on theory and practice.

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

• Rebecca Guenther, Consultant, Meet your Data
As former Standards Specialist at the Library of Congress, Ms. Guenther
served as the co-chair of PREMIS and will begin the webinar by outlining the
types of information that should be associated with an archived digital
object and how these translated into the development of the PREMIS data
dictionary and corresponding XML schema.
 
• Amy Kirchhoff, Archive Service Manager, Portico
Ms. Kirchhoff will describe how Portico's digital preservation repositories
have applied this standard.

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern on February 13, 2013 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are
available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards
Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and
do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically
receive the login information. Members are listed here:
http://www.niso.org/about/roster/). All webinar registrants and LSA webinar
contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. 

Visit the event webpage to register and for more information:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/webinars/preservation

Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson at niso.org
301-654-2512