PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, Version
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Data Dictiona ~ for Preservation Metadata Contents: Acknowledgments version 3.0 Introduction June 2015 Background The PREMIS Data Model General Topics on Structure & Use Implementation Considerations The PREMIS Data Dictionary Version 3.0 Special Topics Glossary PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata version 3.0 PREMIS Editorial Committee June 2015 – Revised November 2015 http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis CONTENTS CONTENTS .................................................................................................................... iii Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................... v PREMIS Editorial Committee members .................................................................. v Special thanks ........................................................................................................ v PREMIS Web Sites and E-Mail ..................................................................................... viii Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 1 Background ................................................................................................................. 1 Development of the original PREMIS Data Dictionary ............................................ 1 Implementable, core preservation metadata ........................................................... 2 PREMIS Maintenance Activity ................................................................................ 3 Version History ....................................................................................................... 4 PREMIS Awards and Recognition .......................................................................... 5 The PREMIS Data Model ............................................................................................ 6 More on Objects ..................................................................................................... 8 More on Events..................................................................................................... 15 More on Agents .................................................................................................... 16 More on Rights ..................................................................................................... 17 General Topics on the Structure and Use of the Data Dictionary.............................. 17 Identifiers .............................................................................................................. 17 Relationships between Objects ............................................................................ 19 Relationships between entities of different types .................................................. 21 The 1:1 principle ................................................................................................... 21 Implementation Considerations ................................................................................. 22 PREMIS conformance .......................................................................................... 22 Implementation of the data model ........................................................................ 24 Storing metadata .................................................................................................. 25 Supplying metadata values ................................................................................... 25 Extensibility ........................................................................................................... 27 Date and time formats in PREMIS ........................................................................ 29 The PREMIS Data Dictionary Version 3.0 ..................................................................... 30 Limits to the scope of the Data Dictionary ................................................................. 31 Object Entity .............................................................................................................. 33 Entity types ............................................................................................................ 33 Entity properties ...................................................................................................... 33 Entity semantic units ............................................................................................... 34 Event Entity ............................................................................................................. 137 Entity properties .................................................................................................. 137 Entity semantic units ........................................................................................... 137 Agent Entity ............................................................................................................. 159 Entity properties .................................................................................................. 159 Entity semantic units ........................................................................................... 159 Rights Entity ............................................................................................................ 178 Entity properties .................................................................................................. 178 Entity semantic units ........................................................................................... 178 Special Topics ............................................................................................................. 249 Format information .............................................................................................. 249 Environment ....................................................................................................... 251 Object characteristics and composition level: the “onion” model ........................ 256 Fixity, integrity, authenticity ................................................................................. 258 Digital signatures ................................................................................................ 259 Non-core metadata ............................................................................................. 262 Glossary ...................................................................................................................... 267 iv Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: PREMIS version 3.0 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREMIS Editorial Committee members Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress, Chair Karin Bredenberg, Riksarkivet, Swedish National Archives Angela Dappert, University of Portsmouth Angela Di Iorio, Sapienza Università di Roma Leslie Johnston, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Devon Landes, HBO Peter McKinney, National Library of New Zealand Evelyn McLellan, Artefactual Systems Tracy Meehleib, Library of Congress Sébastien Peyrard, Bibliothèque nationale de France Pauline Sinclair, Preservica Eld Zierau, Royal Library of Denmark Special thanks The following contributed their expertise to previous versions as former members of the PREMIS Editorial Committee: Steve Bordwell, General Register Office for Scotland Yair Brama, ExLibris Olaf Brandt, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation (co-chair of original PREMIS Working Group) Gerard Clifton, National Library of Australia Markus Enders, British Library Noreen Hill, Library and Archives Canada Karsten Huth, Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Saxon State Archives David Lake, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Brian Lavoie, OCLC Yaniv Levi, ExLibris Bill Leonard, Library and Archives Canada Rory McLeod, British Library Robert Sharpe, Preservica Robert Wolfe, HBO Zhiwu Xie, Los Alamos National Laboratory Sally Vermaaten, Statistics New Zealand Kate Zwaard, U.S. Government Printing Office, Library of Congress In addition to Editorial Committee members, the following contributed their expertise to the work on the Environment Working Group for PREMIS 3: Conçalo Antunes, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Artur Caetano, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Carol Chou, Florida Virtual Campus Janet Delve, University of Portsmouth Martin Neumann, University of Karlsruhe Michael Nolan, Intel In addition to Editorial Committee members, the following contributed their expertise to the work on the Conformance Statement for PREMIS 3: Jay Gattuso, National Library of New Zealand Jan Hutař, Archives New Zealand Amy Kirchhoff, ITHAKA Joseph Pawletko, New York University The following people were the original Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) Working Group that developed version 1 of the Data Dictionary: Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation, co-chair Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress, co-chair Robin Dale, RLG liaison Brian Lavoie, OCLC liaison George Barnum, U.S. Government Printing Office Charles Blair, University of Chicago Olaf Brandt, Göttingen State and University Library Mikki Carpenter, Museum of Modern Art Adam Farquhar, British Library David Gewirtz, Yale University Keith Glavash, MIT/DSpace Andrea Goethals, Florida Center for Library Automation Cathy Hartman, University of North Texas Helen Hodgart, British Library Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Stanford University Roger Howard, J. Paul Getty Museum Sally Hubbard, Getty Research Institute