PREMIS Data Dictionary

The PREMIS Data Dictionary is a comprehensive, practical resource for implementing preservation metadata in digital preservation systems.
The Data Dictionary defines preservation metadata that:

• Supports the viability, renderability, understandability, authenticity, and identity of digital objects in a preservation context;
• Represents the information most preservation repositories need to know to preserve digital materials over the long term;
• Emphasizes “implementable metadata”: rigorously defined, supported by guidelines for creation, management, and use, and oriented toward automated workflows; and,
• Embodies technical neutrality: no assumptions made about preservation technologies, strategies, metadata storage and management, etc.

Go to the index of PREMIS Semantic Units