1. Digital
Preservation
The Icky Stuff
for Heather Prescott’s
Digital Humanities Class

2. Metadata
 Dublin Core
 http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
 Title
 Creator
 Subject
 Description
 Publisher
 Contributor
 Date
 Type
 Format
 Identifier
 Source
 Language
 Relation
 Coverage
 Rights

3. Example of Dublin Core
 Title10th anniversary New Britain's
Dożynki sponsored by Polish
American Council in New Britain,
Connecticut 1989
 Translated title10-a rocznica
Newbrytańskie Dożynki pod
patronatem Zjednoczonych
Organizacji Polsko-Amerykańskich
w New Britain, Connecticut 1989
 OrganizationPolish American
Council (New Britain, Conn.)
LanguageEnglish
 Date1989
 LocationNew Britain (Conn.)
Dates1980-1989 SubjectPolish
Americans -- Connecticut -- New
Britain
Formatjpeg
 PublisherConnecticut Polish
American Archives CCSU New
Britain
http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/
cpaa,9999

4. TEI
 TheText Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a
consortium which collectively develops
and maintains a standard for the
representation of texts in digital form.

5. Brown’s Women’s Writers
Project

6. METS (LOC)
 TheMETS schema is a standard for
encoding descriptive, administrative, and
structural metadata regarding objects
within a digital library, expressed using the
XML schema language of the World Wide
Web Consortium.
 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/

7. Preservation Metadata: Implementation
Strategies (PREMIS)
 PREMIS data dictionary entries include twelve attribute
fields, not all of which are applied to every semantic unit
(analogous to an "element" in other metadata schemes). In
addition to the name and definition of the unit, the fields
record such things as rationale for including the unit, usage
notes, and examples of how the value might be filled in.
Four of the attributes - object category, applicability,
repeatability, and obligation - are linked, as the last three
are defined for each of the object entity levels of file,
bitstream, and representation. The dictionary is hierarchical;
some semantic units are contained within others. For
example, 1.3 preservationLevel, includes four semantic
components, such as 1.3.1 preservationLevelValue and
1.3.2 preservationLevelRole.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PREMIS

8. Bagit
 The Library (of Congress) – with the California
Digital Library and Stanford University – has
developed guidelines for creating and
moving standardized digital containers,
called “bags.” A bag functions like a physical
envelope that is used to send content
through the mail but with bags, a user sends
content from one computer to another.
 http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/videos/b
agit0609.html

9. ERISDA
 Fullydescribed here
 http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4468