[Asis-l] PREMIS Tutorial in Albuquerque, NM, April 20

[Zhiwu Xie]

We are pleased to announce a PREMIS (Preservation
Metadata: Implementation Strategies) Tutorial will be held 
on April 20th,
2007 in the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New 
Mexico, as a
special track of the 2007 National TICFIA Conference. This 
full day
tutorial is designed to assist archivists, librarians, and 
IT managers to
better understand and implement PREMIS standard.

This tutorial is open to anyone interested in digital 
preservation and
PREMIS standard. Tutorial webpage and registration 
information can be
found at:

http://lakh.unm.edu/en/ticfia07/premis.html

Tutorial topics:

1.Background, general info, maintenance activity
2.Data model, identifiers, relationships
3.Objects
4.Agents, Rights
5.Events
6.General implementation
7.XML implementation

Registration:

Please fill in the registration form at
http://lakh.unm.edu/en/ticfia07/registration.doc and 
follow the
instructions in the form.

Cordially,

Cynthia Radding
Director, Latin American & Iberian Institute, University 
of New Mexico

Johann van Reenen
Assistant Dean of Public & Research Services, University 
Libraries,
University of New Mexico






PREMIS Information Sheet:
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BACKGROUND:

More and more of the scholarly and cultural record exists 
in digital form;
steps must be taken to secure its longterm future. There 
are many
practical challenges in implementing reliable, sustainable 
digital
preservation strategies; one of these is  preservation 
metadata.

Preservation metadata is information that supports and 
documents the
digital preservation process:

- Provenance: Who has had custody/ownership of the digital 
object?
- Authenticity: Is the digital object what it purports to 
be?
- Preservation Activity: What has been done to preserve 
the digital object?
- Technical Environment: What is needed to render and use 
the digital object?
- Rights Management: What intellectual property rights 
must be observed?

In short, preservation metadata makes  digital objects 
self-documenting
across time.

PROBLEM:

Digital repositories need implementable preservation 
metadata, along with
guidelines for application and use, that
is relevant to a wide range of digital preservation 
systems and contexts.

SOLUTION:

In June 2003: OCLC and RLG sponsored the international 
working group
PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies). 
The goal of
PREMIS was to  define implementable, core preservation 
metadata, with
guidelines/recommendations for management and use. PREMIS 
membership
included more than 30 experts from 5 countries, 
representing libraries,
museums, archives, government agencies, and the private 
sector.

In May 2005, PREMIS released Data Dictionary for 
Preservation Metadata:
Final Report of the PREMIS Working Group. This 237-page 
report includes:

- PREMIS Data Dictionary 1.0: a comprehensive, practical 
resource for
implementing preservation metadata in digital archiving 
systems;
- Accompanying report (providing context, data model, 
assumptions);
- Special topics, glossary, usage examples;
- Set of  XML schema was developed to support use of the 
Data Dictionary.

BENEFITS:

The PREMIS Data Dictionary 


- supplies a critical piece of the digital preservation 
infrastructure,
and is a
- building block with which effective, sustainable digital 
preservation
strategies can be implemented;
- is the first comprehensive technical specification for 
preservation
metadata produced from an  international, cross-domain, 
consensus-building
process;
- is  widely applicable across all sorts of institutions, 
digital
preservation contexts, and system implementations;
- is oriented toward  practical implementation;
- is supported by the  PREMIS Maintenance Activity, which 
provides a
central destination for PREMISrelated information and 
resources, and hosts
the PREMIS Implementers’ Group discussion list.

URLs:

- PREMIS Working Group: 
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/
- PREMIS Maintenance Activity: 
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/
- PREMIS Data Dictionary :
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/premis-final.pdf