PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) provides 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."
PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata.
The PREMIS Editorial Committee has defined a conformance statement that defines a set of principles governing a conformant implementation of the PREMIS Data Dictionary.
For additional information, please see the FLVC Digital Preservation Libguide: https://flvc.libguides.com/digital-preservation