Sam,
In the working group's discussions, it was decided to limit the scope of
our treatment of rights metadata to permissions directly related to the
repository's efforts to preserve an archived object. So we designed the
Rights entity in a way that was oriented toward this purpose:
specifically, the granting of a permission by a rights holder to the
repository to take some action: e.g., migration, normalization,
duplication, etc., documented according to the expression "Agent X
grants Right Y to the repository in regard to Object Z".
But this does not mean that you can't use the Rights entity to document
access rights. You could construct expressions like "Agent X grants to
the repository the right to provide access to Object Z". But it's not
clear that this is the optimal way to record rights metadata; other
expressions might make more sense.
Brian
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Generoux Sam
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:47 AM
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Subject: [PIG] PREMIS questions from LAC
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
