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PREMIS implementors - The four principals in the development of PREMIS – Florida Center for Library Automation (FLCA), Library of Congress (LC), OCLC, and Research Libraries Group (RLG) – have established a plan for the ongoing maintenance and development of the PREMIS Data Dictionary. The description of the Maintenance Activity can be viewed at www.loc.gov/premis/ma.html. Briefly, it designates three components of maintenance: a Managing Agency (designated as LC) to coordinate the activity and assure that work continues; an Editorial Committee that sets the directions and priorities for PREMIS development and coordinates and approves all revisions; and an Implementors' Group, an open listserv for discussion and different perspectives. The intent was to keep the Maintenance both broad and lightweight. It is now time to appoint the members of the 10 member Editorial Board that is described in the web document noted above. The Board is intended to be composed of experts, selected to serve a wide variety of interests, and actually engaged in some aspect of implementation of PREMIS in their institution. Since the Board will be widely scattered geographically, the meetings will be via conference call or other electronic means. Speaking for the four institutions that steered the development of PREMIS, the following procedure will be followed. To begin this activity, the initial Board will have an expert from FCLA, LC, OCLC, and RLG, and they will select the other initial members -- if more than 6 persons request membership. If you would like to participate in the development of PREMIS, please send your name and an implementation description statement to the following email address: [log in to unmask] I hope that you will think seriously about helping out with this important standard! Sally McCallum ******************************************************** Sally H. McCallum, Chief, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540 USA [log in to unmask] (Fax: 1-202-707 0115) (Voice: 1-202-707 5119) ********************************************************