Cultural Heritage Conservation Events

PREMIS Tutorial

Date: 5 February 2009
Place: Civita, Piazza Venezia, Roma


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 recommended for use in all preservation repositories regardless of the type of materials archived, the type of institution, and the preservation strategies employed. It is maintained by the PREMIS Editorial Committee and is currently in version 2.0, which was issued in April 2008. This tutorial provides an introduction to PREMIS and its data model, a walk-through of the Data Dictionary, examples of PREMIS metadata in real situations, and implementation considerations, particularly using PREMIS in XML and with the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS). It will also explore strategies for using controlled vocabularies with PREMIS semantic units. There will be examples of PREMIS usage and time for questions and answers.

Attendees should be involved in implementing and managing preservation systems in various kinds of repositories, including libraries, archives, museums, government agencies and other types of cultural heritage institutions. Participants are expected to have some involvement in and knowledge about digital preservation and some familiarity with XML and METS.

Registration for the Tutorial is mandatory because seats are limited:
Donwload the Registration form http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/premis/Registration-Form-Tutorial.doc


Program

9:30-10:00    Registration
10:00-11:00  Background and Context
                  The PREMIS Data Model
                  General introduction to the PREMIS Data Dictionary
11:00-11:20  Break
11:20-12:00  Object entity
12:00-12:30  Objects example, Questions
12:30-14:00  Lunch
14:00-14:45  Events, Events Example, Rights, Agents
14:45-15:15  Implementation: general and in XML
15:15-15:45  Break
15:45-16:30  Implementation in METS and METS/XML example
16:30-17:00  Questions, Wrap-up
     

Further information: http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/index.php?SEZ=543