Digital Preservation Metadata for Practitioners Implementing PREMIS
This book begins with an introduction to fundamental issues related to digital preservation metadata before proceeding to in-depth coverage of issues concerning its practical use and implementation. It helps readers to understand which options need to be
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Digital Preservation Metadata for Practitioners Implementing PREMIS
Digital Preservation Metadata for Practitioners
Angela Dappert Rebecca Squire Guenther Sébastien Peyrard •
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Editors Angela Dappert The British Library London UK
Sébastien Peyrard Bibliothèque nationale de France Site François-Mitterrand Paris France
Rebecca Squire Guenther Consultant New York, NY USA
ISBN 978-3-319-43761-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43763-7
ISBN 978-3-319-43763-7
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Preface
Digital Preservation Metadata for Practitioners: Implementing PREMIS is intended for anyone who needs to preserve digital assets in any form over a long period of time. It considers the steps involved in determining what information one needs to keep, together with one’s digital assets, so that they can be understood and used in the long term. The information that ensures the long-term usability of digital objects to keep them accessible in some form in the future is referred to as digital preservation metadata. This is particularly important for repositories, places where information objects are stored and managed for a long time. Simply storing digital objects on a data carrier is not enough to keep them usable. They need to be managed in a repository so that they are protected from accidental or intentional damage and so that a full computing environment can be created in which they can be accessed and understood when they are needed. In the early 2000s it became clear that a shared community metadata standard was needed to ensure long-term preservation of our ever-
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