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
Research and Innovation