Preservation Metadata

Preservation Metadata

We introduce the digital preservation problem and explain the importance of metadata for the preservation of the digital information, especially to the cultural content. We emphasize that the digital information will only be available if the necessary metadata are appropriately designed and specified. We also present the Reference Model for an “Open Archival Information System” (OAIS), which is...

Digital Preservation Metadata Standards

Metadata Enrichment for Digital Preservation

Description of structural and semantic relationships and properties of, within, and between resources is seen as a key issue in digital preservation. But the markup languages used to encode descriptions for migration between and storage within digital repositories are subject to the same interpretive problems that complicate other uses of markup. This paper reports on a project that aims to add...

Developing Preservation Metadata for Use in Grid-Based Preservation Systems

Establishing metadata requirements is a key challenge for any attempt to implement a digital preservation repository. The repository’s capacity to provide costeffective, trustworthy services largely derives from the metadata it uses. This paper describes the metadata posited to support services the Chronopolis preservation system will offer at the conclusion of its first year of development. Ch...

A Translation Layer to Convey Preservation Metadata

The long term preservation is a responsibility to share with other organizations, even adopting different preservation methods and tools. The overcoming of the interoperability issues, by means of the achievement of a flawless exchange of digital assets to preserve, enables the feasibility of applying distributed digital preservation policies. The Archives Ready To AIP Transmission a PREMIS Bas...