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    In case I forget to mention this tonight :)

    http://www.blogs.slis.ua.edu/slis/courses/ls590/spring2008/m...
    28 days ago in All metadata, all the time · Authority: 2

    Here are some thoughts about PREMIS that may or may not make it into tonight’s presentation (these are totally random and in no particular order): 1. I was really impressed by the documentation from all the phases of  PREMIS development. The members of the working groups have tried really hard to make a difficult subject understandable, and for the most part, they succeeded 2. I have been reading PREMIS documents for weeks, though, and I am still struggling to understand it–it is one of those subjects that moves from simple to complex at the speed of light (like most of the metadata issues we have discussed this semester) 3. PREMIS is a relative newcomer (the first version of the Data Dictionary was published in 2005) and has yet to widely implemented, but it is well on the way to being “the” standard for preservation metadata.  As a matter of fact, today I just skimmed a recent (2008) article by Richard Gartner, Metadata for digital libraries: state of the art and future directions where he states that “the best established schema to deal with preservation metadata is undoubtedly PREMIS” (via Cataloging Futures)–I am sure that we will be hearing lots about PREMIS as we move into library careers, esp. those of us who will work with digital collections. 4. There sure is a lot of programming action that goes on “behind the scenes” with digital collections software–what we see when we access a record in a repository is actually a very small portion of the whole process. Thanks for listening!