Using controlled vocabularies for certain PREMIS elements was one of the 
discussion topics during the PREMIS implementers workshop at iPres2010 in 
Vienna. While their use is not mandatory, most attendees agreed that encouraging 
tighter PREMIS usage profiles, including controlled vocabularies, had many 
benefits, not the least of which is cross-repository interoperability.

Rebecca Guenther noted that the ongoing maintenance of PREMIS controlled 
vocabularies can be managed using the LoC's Authorities and Vocabularies 
services, see http://id.loc.gov/

This work has already been started using the example values provided in the 
current version of PREMIS, see
http://id.loc.gov/search/?q=*&cs=cs%3ApreservationEvents&Search_submit=Go

We discussed how to streamline the process of nominating new controlled 
vocabulary values and it was decided that the PIGpen wiki was an ideal platform 
for this. We have started the ball rolling by nominating some new Event Type 
(Preservation Event) values which we are using in the Archivematica project. 
These are posted to this page (public wiki login: linus, password: lucy):
http://pigpen.lib.uchicago.edu:8888/pigpen/32

Maybe Rebecca or an Editorial Committee member can comment on what the next step 
in the process would be? I assume we'll need to find a way to move from the 
suggestions posted to the wiki to the formal revision process?
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/revision-process.html

Maybe a period of time to allow for discussion of nominated terms on the wiki 
and/or the PIG list before the terms go into the change request process?

Cheers,

--peter

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Peter Van Garderen
Project Manager, Archivematica. http://archivematica.org
President, Artefactual Systems. http://artefactual.com
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