Hello,
Recently, Library and Archives Canada formed a working group to begin
implementing PREMIS and METS around digital assets. Quite a bit of time has
been spent surveying our digital holdings and listing the metadata
requirements for the material. As we work through the PREMIS Data
Dictionary, a number of implementation issues have come up. I was hoping
that the group could share some experiences on these issues.
1) The rights entity in PREMIS seems to be designed to track
curatorial rights: 1) granting permission to archive an object; 2)
authorization to take preservation actions. It organizes permission
statements, agents associated with permissions, actions, etc, but can it be
used to record and manage access rights? What approaches have other
institutions been taking when implementing PREMIS rights and recording
access rights? Has anyone implemented a rights registry?
2) Since we are looking to house our PREMIS metadata inside the METS
structure, I was wondering, has anyone done any mapping of PREMIS data
elements to the METS schema?
3) Finally, following the METS/PREMIS implementation thread, has
anyone applied PREMIS and METS to complex, born-digital objects such as
websites? Are these schemas proving to be scalable to objects like
websites, which consist of complex structures, thousands and thousands of
files, and multiple formats? Has this been applied to a domain web harvest?
I realize that all of these PREMIS questions are 'nested' inside of the
larger METS implementation issues, but I was hoping to pick the groups
collective brain on this.
Sam Generoux
Library and Archives Canada,
Research and Innovation
