"Understanding PREMIS" is now available from the PREMIS Maintenance Activity website. This document is a "gentle" introduction to the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, giving an overview of its scope and goals. It does not give enough information for implementation, but will make the larger document, i.e. the PREMIS Data Dictionary, more familiar.

 

"Understanding PREMIS" was written by Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation, for the Library of Congress. It is available at:   http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/understanding-premis.pdf

 

The full PREMIS Data Dictionary is available at: http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v2/premis-2-0.pdf

 

 

"DLF and OCLC announce the second release of the "Registry of Digital Masters Record Creation Guidelines," available from
http://purl.org/dlf/rdm200705. Created by a DLF/OCLC working group, the guidelines are to be used when creating metadata for born digital or to be digitized materials that have been digitized according to standards and best practices with the intention of including the metadata in the Registry of Digital Masters. The Registry is available through OCLC
WorldCat. "

"The Visual Resources Association announces that the release version of VRA Core 4.0 is now available. Core 4.0 Beta was released in December of 2005. After testing and input from the cultural heritage community, improvements were made that resulted in the release version found at http://www.vraweb.org/projects/vracore4/

For those who have already begun using Core 4.0 in its beta version, the Core 4.0 website contains a document entitled "Explanation of changes between VRA Core 4.0 beta version and VRA Core 4.0 release version"

VRA Core was developed and is maintained by the Data Standards Committee of the Visual Resources Association."

Registry of projects using MODS