Preservation metadata: Current situation and future perspectives

Abstract

Preservation metadata is information that supports and documents the long- term preservation of digital materials. Preservation metadata includes information concerning format, significant properties, environment for use, fixity, technical properties, provenance, and so forth. The final report of the PREMIS, which defines and describes an implementable set of core preservation metadata, is a current culmination of research and development of preservation metadata. METS, a standard for encoding and transmitting metadata, supports interoperability between repositories that implement PREMIS-conformant metadata. Developing automated metadata extraction tools, sharing metadata between repositories, and data creator’s cooperation are future direction.