Implementing preservation repositories for digital materials
Subtitle: current practice and emerging trends in the cultural heritage community : a report
By: by the PREMIS Working Group.
Contributors: PREMIS Working Group.; OCLC.; RLG (Organization)
Publisher: OCLC Online Computer Library, Inc.; Research Libraries Group
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Dublin, OH; Mountain View, CA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Digital preservation.; Library materials -- Digitization.; Archival materials -- Digitization.; Archival materials -- Conservation and restoration.; Library materials -- Conservation and restoration.
Description: Presents and reviews results of a survey prepared by the PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) Working Group, a group jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG aimed at gathering information on key aspects of planned and existing preservation repositories for digital materials. Survey questions touched on mission, funding, preservation strategy, and access policies with an overarching focus on current practice for managing preservation metadata in digital archiving systems. Survey responses were received from nearly fifty institutions located in thirteen countries, and included libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions. Analysis of the responses suggests that the digital preservation community is beginning to coalesce around several emerging trends in the use and management of preservation metadata, which are enumerated and discussed at the conclusion of the report.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Title from title screen of PDF file (viewed Dec. 14, 2004).
"September 2004."
Mode of access: World Wide Web.