Preservation Metadata
Priscilla Caplan, Digital Library Services, Florida Center for Library Automation
Published: July 2006
Preservation metadata is information that supports and documents the process of digital preservation. The term is usually reserved for metadata that specifically supports the functions of maintaining the fixity, viability, renderability, understandability, and/or authenticity of digital materials in a preservation context.
As such, preservation metadata includes elements of administrative metadata, structural metadata, and technical metadata (the subset of administrative metadata that documents detailed format characteristics of files).
This instalment explores some of the issues involved in recording and managing preservation metadata over time, provides a summary of current activity, and examines some of the key issues relating to preservation metadata including provenance, file format specification and packaging.
Key Points
- Provenance
- Fixity
- Significant properties
- Technical specifications
- Current activity
- Home
- Digital curation
- About us
- News
- Events
- Resources
- Briefing Papers
- Introduction to Curation
- Annotation
- Appraisal and Selection
- Curating Emails
- Curating e-Science Data
- Curating Geospatial Data
- Data Accreditation
- Data Citation and Linking
- Data Protection
- Database Archiving
- Digital Repositories
- Freedom of Information
- Genre Classification
- Interoperability
- Persistent Identifiers
- Trust Through Self Assessment
- Using OAIS for Curation
- Web 2.0
- What is Digital Curation?
- Common Directions in Research Data Policy
- 5 Steps to Research Data Readiness
- Citizen Science
- Making the Case for RDM
- Legal Watch Papers
- Standards Watch Papers
- Technology Watch Papers
- Introduction to Curation
- How-to Guides & Checklists
- Appraise & Select Research Data for Curation
- Cite Datasets and Link to Publications
- Develop RDM Services
- Develop a DMP
- Discover Requirements
- Five Steps to Decide What Data to Keep
- Five Things You Need to Know About RDM and the Law
- License Research Data
- Track Data Impact with Metrics
- Using RISE
- Where to keep research data
- Write a Lay Summary
- Developing RDM Services
- Reviewing research data platform capabilities at CISER
- Using EPrints to Build a Repository for UEL
- Assigning DOIs at Bristol
- DMPs in the Arts and Humanities
- Improving RDM at Monash
- Improving Research Visibility
- Increasing Participation in Training
- RDM Training for Librarians
- RDM strategy: moving from plans to action
- Storing and Sharing Data in Hull
- Curation Lifecycle Model
- Curation Reference Manual
- Peer review
- Editorial Board
- Completed chapters
- Appraisal and Selection
- Archival Metadata
- Archiving Web Resources
- Automated Metadata Generation
- Curating Emails
- File Formats
- Investment in an Intangible Asset
- Learning Object Metadata
- Metadata
- Ontologies
- Open Source for Digital Curation
- Preservation Metadata
- Preservation Scenarios for Projects Producing Digital Resources
- Preservation Strategies
- Principles for Enabling Access to Engineering Design Information Through Life
- Scientific Metadata
- The Role of Microfilm in Digital Preservation
- Chapters in production
- Policy and legal
- Data Management Plans
- Tools
- Case studies
- Repository audit and assessment
- Standards
- Publications and presentations
- Roles
- Curation journals
- Informatics research
- External resources
- Online Store
- Briefing Papers
- Training
- Projects
- Community
- Tailored support
In this section
- Briefing Papers
- How-to Guides & Checklists
- Developing RDM Services
- Curation Lifecycle Model
- Curation Reference Manual
- Peer review
- Editorial Board
- Completed chapters
- Appraisal and Selection
- Archival Metadata
- Archiving Web Resources
- Automated Metadata Generation
- Curating Emails
- File Formats
- Investment in an Intangible Asset
- Learning Object Metadata
- Metadata
- Ontologies
- Open Source for Digital Curation
- Preservation Metadata
- Preservation Scenarios for Projects Producing Digital Resources
- Preservation Strategies
- Principles for Enabling Access to Engineering Design Information Through Life
- Scientific Metadata
- The Role of Microfilm in Digital Preservation
- Chapters in production
- Policy and legal
- Data Management Plans
- Tools
- Case studies
- Repository audit and assessment
- Standards
- Publications and presentations
- Roles
- Curation journals
- Informatics research
- External resources
- Online Store