Title: Implementing preservation repositories for digital materials
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.
Subjects: Digital preservation, Library materials, Digitization, Archival materials, Conservation and restoration