A Daunting PREMIS: Implementing Preservation Metadata within the METS Framework
Presented at 2006 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT2006)
Jerome P. McDonough
Graduate School of Library & Information Science, UIUC
19-20 October 2006
NOTES: Combination
of METS & PREMIS is currently in use at Library of Congress, Stanford, National
Library of Australia, Florida Center for Library Automation, MathArc Project
(Cornell and Gottingen State & Univ. Library), with other experimental
efforts underway.
This provides you with a graphical view of how the various bits and pieces of a METS object might fit together.
Orange is structural map, defining a logical structure for the object (a movie).
The root node links to a descriptive metadata record in dublin core format
for the object, as well as an IP rights record for the object using the PREMIS
rights schema. One scene in the movie can be mapped to a set of MPEG2 files
comprising the content, along with a subsection of a text file providing subtitling
information. Content files can be linked to multiple technical metadata records,
in this case a PREMIS record for general technical metadata and a SMPTE RP210
record for video specific technical metadata, and to a variety of PREMIS records
describing the file’s life-cycle.