PREMIS not in DOMS

We have decided not to use PREMIS in DOMS, at least when it comes to audio files we have digitized via the Quadriga system. That is due to the fact that all the needed technical metadata are automatically generated or manually written in the Quadriga system. And those metadata will be exported to DOMS together with the audio file.

Below are the investigations we made in order to find out which components from PREMIS we would use for digital resources without automatically generated technical metadata

The PREMIS preservation metadata as defined in the PREMIS Data Dictionary is "the information a repository uses to support the digital preservation process." One of the main principles behind PREMIS is that you need to be very clear about what you are describing. PREMIS defines five kind of entities: Intellectual, Objects, Events, Agents and Rights. This is called the PREMIS data model.

We have chosen to use only the entity Object (or Digital Object). Below is an outline of the semantic units and components we are going to adopt:

References

PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.0, PREMIS Editorial Committee, March 2008

Caplan, Priscilla: Understanding PREMIS, February 2009

PREMIS not in DOMS (last edited 2010-09-24 06:58:00 by ek)