Implementing Metadata that Guide Digital Preservation Services

Implementing Metadata that Guides Digital Preservation Services

Effective digital preservation depends on a set of preservation services that work together to ensure that digital objects can be preserved for the long-term. These services need digital preservation metadata, in particular, descriptions of the properties that digital objects may have and descriptions of the requirements that guide digital preservation services. This paper analyzes how these se...

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...

A Metadata Approach to Digital Preservation

Selection and metadata issues which surround the preservation of digital information are discussed, in particular, the assignment of “collection levels” to Web materials to ensure preservation, and some Preservation Metadata Element Sets (PMES) which have been identified as informed by the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. A metadata framework that can support a broad ran...

Scalable Services for Digital Preservation

Due to rapid changes in information technology, digital data, documents, and records are doomed to become uninterpretable bit-streams within short time periods. Digital Preservation deals with the longterm storage, access, and maintenance of digital data objects. In order to prevent a loss of information, digital libraries and archives are increasingly faced with the need to electronically pres...