originally: http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/oaismetadata.htm
Digital Preservation—OAIS-Compliant MetadataIn early 2000 RLG and OCLC Online Computer Library Center begun discussing ways the two organizations could cooperate to create infrastructures for digital archiving. OCLC took the lead in defining descriptive and management metadata needed in the long-term retention of digital files. A group of jointly appointed international experts participated. This work resulted in the June 2002 report, Preservation Metadata and the OAIS Information Model: Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects. This document provides a set of metadata elements mapped to an expanded conceptual structure for the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model. It underlies further work by RLG and OCLC and serves many other institutions and organizations dealing with the long-term retention of digital materials.
BackgroundOCLC and RLG formed a planning committee that included, from OCLC, Meg Bellinger, Brian Lavoie, and Ed O'Neill, and, from RLG, Robin Dale and Nancy Elkington. The 2000-2002 Preservation Metadata Working Group included these experts: Michael Alexander The group was charged to:
In January 2001 the group addressed the first objective with a 50-page Web-published paper, Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art, in pdf format. That document set the stage for their final report in June. |
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