Preservation metadata: Current situation and future perspectives

Preservation metadata is information that supports and documents the long-term preservation of digital materials. Preservation metadata includes information concerning format, significant properties, environment for use, fixity, technical properties, provenance, and so forth. The final report of the...

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Published inJournal of Information Processing and Management Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 74 - 86
Main Author GOTO, Toshiyuki
Format Journal Article
LanguageJapanese
Published Japan Science and Technology Agency 2007
Subjects
Archiving
digital archive
digital archiving
digital preservation
digital preservation repository
digital repository
Digitization
long-term preservation
Metadata
METS
PREMIS
Preservation
preservation metadata
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Summary:Preservation metadata is information that supports and documents the long-term preservation of digital materials. Preservation metadata includes information concerning format, significant properties, environment for use, fixity, technical properties, provenance, and so forth. The final report of the PREMIS, which defines and describes an implementable set of core preservation metadata, is a current culmination of research and development of preservation metadata. METS, a standard for encoding and transmitting metadata, supports interoperability between repositories that implement PREMIS-conformant metadata. Developing automated metadata extraction tools, sharing metadata between repositories, and data creator’
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ISSN:0021-7298
1347-1597
DOI:10.1241/johokanri.50.74