Understanding and Implementing PREMIS - A tutorial

This half day tutorial will provide participants with a short introduction to the PREMIS Data Dictionary. There after the focus is implementation. It willgive a basic overview of the standard and explore different models of implementation.The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata is a specification that provides a key piece of infrastructure for digital preservation activities, playing a vital role in enabling the effective management, discovery, and re-usability of digital information. Preservation metadata provides provenance information, documents preservation activity, identifies technical features, and aids in verifying the authenticity of digital objects. PREMIS is a core set of metadata elements (called “semantic units”) recommended for use in all preservationrepositories regardless of the type of materials archived, the type of institution, and the preservation strategies employed.