"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

 

 

"Electronic files of several out-of-print books, reports and symposium proceedings publishes by RLG, Inc. from 1988 to 2003 are now available in the OCLC Corporate Library Collection housed in the OCLC Digital Archive."

Persistence of Memory:
Sustaining Digital Collections
December 9-10, 2008
Chicago, Illinois

 

 

MetaArchive/LOCKSS Distributed Preservation Networks Workshop

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)
June 20, 2008 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Omni William Penn Hotel

This all-day workshop will provide information and training for institutions seeking to build or join LOCKSS-based distributed digital preservation networks. Please consider attending if you are interested in learning more about the technical logistics and operational considerations of hosting or participating in a Private LOCKSS Network for distributed preservation.

 

Short definition:

"Digital preservation combines policies, strategies and actions that ensure access to digital content over time."

Managing the Intangible: Creating, Storing and Retrieving Digital Surrogates of Historical Materials

Dates: Monday, April 30 and Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Times: Program Schedule
9:00 am to 5:00 pm each day
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Reception on Monday, April 30

Location:
UMUC Inn and Conference Center
3501 University Boulevard, East
Adelphi, Maryland 20783

The name of the listserv is DIGIPRES. For purposes of clarity, a working definition of digital preservation is included in this invitation.

**Digital preservation combines policies, strategies and actions that ensure access to information in digital formats over time.**

The unmoderated listserv shall have the following characteristics:

* cultural organization [mainly library but also archives and museums] centered
* not TOO technical but technical topics could certainly be covered
* not focused on any single digital preservation initiative but touching on them all
* Questions from practitioners could be asked and answered, such as:

* At your digital repository, how do you ...[whatever]?
* Which metadata schema do you use for your institutional repository?
* When you buy electronic books, do you attempt to guarantee long term access to the files in your license agreements?

"The Library of Congress, as part of the PREMIS maintenance activity, commissioned Karen Coyle to provide this study to assist the newly established PREMIS Editorial Committee, in consultation with the PREMIS Implementers Group, with its first revision of the data dictionary and schemas.  The intention is to improve the specification so that institutions trying to assess their rights to preserve materials in digital formats will be able to provide enough information in their digital repositories to make such assessments about their materials over time. In this study Karen Coyle reviews the landscape of digital rights, analyzes various preservation rights scenarios and the sorts of preservation actions that digital repositories might take, relates copyright law to preservation actions, and provides recommendations for revision where the data dictionary needs expansion."