Implementing Metadata that Guide Digital Preservation Services

Effective digital preservation depends on a set of preservation services that work together to ensure that digital objects can be preserved for the long-term. These services need digital preservation metadata, in particular, descriptions of the properties that digital objects may have and descriptio...

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Main Authors: Angela Dappert, Adam Farquhar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2011-03-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Curation
Online Access:http://129.215.67.233/ijdc/article/view/185
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Summary:Effective digital preservation depends on a set of preservation services that work together to ensure that digital objects can be preserved for the long-term. These services need digital preservation metadata, in particular, descriptions of the properties that digital objects may have and descriptions of the requirements that guide digital preservation services. This paper analyzes how these services interact and use these metadata and develops a data dictionary to support them.
ISSN:1746-8256