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# PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) Working Group

The PREMIS Working Group has concluded its activities and its final products are available for download below. A maintenance activity for the PREMIS data dictionary and XML schema has been organized. Updates on continuing activities will appear in OCLC Research Announcements. ## PREMIS Working Group documents PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, v. 2 (March 2008) (.pdf: 3.1MB/224 pp.) This publication updates the Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final Report of the PREMIS Working Group (May 2005), which won the 2005 Digital Preservation Award and the 2006 Society of American Archivists Preservation Publication Award. ## The PREMIS Maintenance Activity The PREMIS data dictionary and XML schema are maintained by the PREMIS maintenance activity, hosted by the Library of Congress. It may be accessed at: http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/ Please see the maintenance activity web site for information about future PREMIS-related activities, including maintenance of the Data Dictionary and XML schema. ## Contact Send questions and comments to: premis@loc.gov | PDF:3.1MB/224pp.