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Preservation Metadata for Digital Materials

The PREMIS working group, jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG, was composed of international experts from institutions that had developed or were currently developing digital preservation capacity.

PREMIS membership included representatives from a variety of domains interested in digital preservation, including libraries, museums, archives, government, and the private sector.

The objectives of PREMIS were to:

The PREMIS working group follows on the activities of the Preservation Metadata Framework Working Group, also sponsored by OCLC and RLG.

PREMIS activities included the publication of two major reports:

PREMIS completed its activities in May 2005.

Follow-on activities related to the PREMIS working group can be found at:

Background

What is preservation metadata?

Preservation metadata:

Why is preservation metadata important?

What's been done?

Updated: 20 May 2005